Amy Allia

Sports Dietitian, Diabetes Educator (Candidate)

Amy is a clinical dietitian with 15 years experience who enjoys helping her clients to achieve better health by providing tailored dietary advice. Amy is consulting at Generations Medical, Taringa and is available for face to face and telehealth appointments.

ACCREDITATIONS

  • Accredited Practicing Dietitian, Dietitians Australia

  • Credentialled Diabetes Educator Candidate, Australian Diabetes Educator Association

 

Expertise

Her expertise include:

  • Diet approaches to management of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) including the low FODMAP diet (completed Monash University low FODMAP training)

  • Inflammatory bowel disease including crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis

  • Surgical weight management (sleeve gastrectomy, Roux-en-Y and gastric band)

  • Coeliac disease

  • Gastrointestinal conditions including diverticular disease, liver disease, gastroparesis and pre/post gastrointestinal surgery

  • Type 1, Type 2 Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes

  • Weight management

  • Gestational diabetes and maternal health

  • Diet for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and fertility

  • Nutrition support for unintentional weight loss and tube feeding

  • Infant health – faltering growth or failure to thrive, cow’s milk protein allergy or intolerance and starting solids


Bio

Amy has worked as a clinical dietitian in tertiary hospitals since graduating from Queensland University of Technology in 2008 and has also worked in private practice within a specialist Gastroenterology clinic. During her time working in hospitals she has worked in gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgical wards and clinics, spent several years working in gestational diabetes, fertility and maternal health outpatient clinics and has worked in special care and neonatal intensive care along with private paediatric outpatient clinics and wards.

Amy spends her free time with her husband and two children cooking, going on caravanning holidays, and very slowly progressing their home renovation.