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Email
rosemary.hall@otago.ac.nz

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Position
Endocrinology Sub-convener, Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Medicine (Wellington)
Qualifications
MB ChB FRACP PhD
Research summary
Endocrinology and diabetes, including prevention, pregnancy, technology, metabolic health, clinical nutrition, body composition, Māori and Pacific health equity, and translational research.
Teaching
Rosemary contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in endocrinology within the University of Otago medical programme, including MICN401 teaching and clinical supervision. She supervises PhD students across the broad areas of diabetes, metabolic disease, and diabetes in pregnancy. She has a strong interest in mentoring emerging clinical researchers from undergraduates to postgraduates.
Memberships
  • Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
  • Immediate past President of the New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes
  • Chair, NZSSD Guidelines Group
  • Mahitahi Matehuka, National Diabetes Clinical Network Member
  • Director, Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society
  • International Association of the Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups Board Member
  • Clinical investigator and collaborator in national and international endocrinology research networks
Clinical
Rosemary is a Consultant Endocrinologist with expertise across the full spectrum of endocrinology and diabetes. She is the Clinical Leader for Diabetes and Endocrine in Wellington and the Hutt Valley, and is the endocrinology lead for the diabetes in pregnancy service. She is the Endocrinologist for the diabetes service in Tairāwhiti. She is committed to delivering evidence-based, patient-centred care informed by current research and modern clinical practice.

Research

Rosemary completed her PhD in Cambridge, UK, at the Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research. Her thesis examined the association between dietary protein, energy regulation and metabolic disease. This research used a variety of techniques to measure energy intake, energy expenditure, body composition and metabolic parameters, including highly controlled physiological studies performed in a whole body calorimeter.

She was pivotal in developing the metabolic facilities in the Clinical Research Centre, which include a hood calorimeter and DXA scanner, and previously a whole body calorimeter.

Her current research focuses on prioritising equitable access and outcomes for people with diabetes and metabolic disease.

Diabetes in pregnancy

  • Nutritional strategies to optimise pregnancy outcomes
  • Prevention of diabetes in pregnancy
  • Interpregnancy metabolic health
  • Prevention of type 2 diabetes after a pregnancy with GDM

Diabetes technology

  • Insulin pumps and CGM for T1D, T2D and pre-diabetes
  • Focusing on equitable access to prevent progression of disease

Prevention of diabetes

  • Preventing progression from pre-diabetes to diabetes
  • Nutritional strategies to improve metabolic health
  • Enabling dietary change for priority groups

The relationship between nutrition, energy regulation and diabetes including techniques to measure insulin metabolism, energy intake, energy expenditure, body composition and metabolic parameters and energy balance as assessed during whole body calorimetry.

Publications

Christie, T., Barthow, C., Krebs, J. D., & Hall, R. M. (2026). Navigating diabetes prevention with a healthy lifestyle after gestational diabetes. Proceedings of the New Zealand Society for the Study of Diabetes (NZSSD) Annual Scientific Meeting. (pp. 34). Retrieved from https://www.nzssd.org.nz/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Gale, J. T., Boucsein, A., Williman, J., Lever, C., Crocket, H., Dewes, O., … de Bock, M., … Hall, R., … Jones, S., … Wheeler, B. J. (2026). Accelerating care, capacity and equity in automated insulin delivery systems for New Zealanders with type 1 diabetes: The ACCESS-AID study protocol. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders, 25(1), 96. doi: 10.1007/s40200-026-01864-0 Journal - Research Other

Brabhaharan, C., Krebs, J., & Hall, R. (2025). Postnatal HBA1c screening uptake and experiences following a pregnancy with gestational diabetes at Wellington Regional Hospital. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 138(1619), (pp. 89-90). Retrieved from https://nzmj.org.nz/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Coppell, K. J., McGrath, N., Lawton, B., Stevenson, K., Rackham, H. M., Sharples, K. J., Sullivan, T., Hall, R. M., & Paterson, H. (2025). Delivering optimal weight gain advice to pregnant women by lead maternity carer midwives in a real-world setting to optimise health outcomes (DOT study): A case study protocol. BMC Public Health, 25, 3804. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-24375-8 Journal - Research Other

Amataiti, T. A., Parry-Strong, A., Muimuiheata, S., Wright-McNaughton, M., Barthow, C., McKerchar, C., Jones, B., Coppell, K. J., Krebs, J. D., & Hall, R. M. (2025). Enablers and challenges of dietary interventions and change for Pacific Peoples living in Aotearoa, New Zealand: A scoping review. Nutrition Reviews, 83(12), 2407-2429. doi: 10.1093/nutrit/nuaf081 Journal - Research Article

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