Rate My Professor Anne Ryalls

Anne Ryalls is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Medicine at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, within the Faculty of Medicine, Division of Health Sciences. She holds qualifications of EN and BSc. In her roles, she serves as Ambulatory Medicine Convenor for 4th and 5th year medical students, ELM tutor, Teaching Administrator, and member of the Department of Medicine Teaching Committee and Department of Medicine Research Committee. A 25-year veteran of the department, she provides critical support to teaching and administrative functions and is recognized by Professor Michael Schultz as the go-to person for students and teachers in the Department of Medicine.

Until 2017, Anne Ryalls worked as a research nurse in the Endocrine Research Group led by Professor Patrick Manning. She is a co-author on several peer-reviewed publications related to metabolic disorders, nutritional therapies, and endocrine research. Key publications include: Manning, P. J., Sutherland, W. H., Walker, R. J., Williams, S. M., de Jong, S. A., Ryalls, A. R., & Berry, E. A. (2004). Effect of high-dose vitamin E on insulin resistance and associated parameters in overweight subjects. Diabetes Care, 27(9), 2166-2171; Sutherland, W. H. F., Manning, P. J., Walker, R. J., de Jong, S. A., Ryalls, A. R., & Berry, E. A. (2007). Vitamin E supplementation and plasma 8-isoprostane and adiponectin in overweight subjects. Obesity, 15(2), 386-391; Manning, P. J., De Jong, S. A., Ryalls, A. R., & Sutherland, W. H. F. (2012). Paraoxonase 1 activity in chylomicrons and VLDL: The effect of type 2 diabetes and meals rich in saturated fat and oleic acid. Lipids, 47(3), 259-267; Manning, P. J., Sutherland, W. H. F., Williams, S. M., Walker, R. J., Berry, E. A., De Jong, S. A., & Ryalls, A. R. (2013). The effect of lipoic acid and vitamin E therapies in individuals with the metabolic syndrome. Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases, 23(6), 543-549; Ross, S., Manning, P., De Ridder, D., Sutherland, W., Leong, S., Ryalls, A., et al. (2016). Post-weight loss changes in brain activity after a very low calorie diet. Proceedings of the 34th International Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research, p. 53. Her excellence in teaching support and administration has been honored with the Outstanding Teaching Support Award at the Dunedin Campus Teaching and Research Excellence Awards (2020), Award for Excellence in Administration (2022), and Medicine Research Support Award at the Health Research Excellence Awards (2016).