Mr Rocco Di Vincenzo Dietitian

Mr. Rocco Di Vincenzo is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) and works privately in Brunswick, Melbourne. Rocco has over 20 years experience as an APD, whose roles have ranged from being employed as a Senior Community Dietitian for over a decade and also as the Chief Clinical Dietitian at the first Integrative Hospital in the Southern Hemisphere known as the Swinburne University Hospital. Rocco has completed a Bachelor of Science (Monash University), a Masters in Human Nutrition and Dietetics (Deakin University), a Postgraduate Diploma in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine at Swinburne University’s Graduate School of Integrative Medicine (GSIM) and more recently a Post Graduate Diploma in Botanical Medicine at Newcastle University. Rocco has had a keen interest in the area of Functional Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (FNEM) for many years and is formally trained in the area. Rocco has a particular interest in individually tailored, patient-centred nutrition intervention programs and the justifiable, evidence-based, strategic use of pharmaceutical grade natural nutritional/herbal supplements (as a treatment adjunct) in treating the cause of disease and alleviation of patient symptomatology. Rocco has a special interest in how food and nutrition (including nutritional/herbal supplementation) can be invaluable and pivotal in the treatment of gastrointestinal dysfunction and disorders, liver dysfunction and disorders (including NASH/Fatty Liver Disease), neurological disorders such as Depression/Anxiety, Neuropsychiatric Disorders such as Autism/Aspergers/Tourettes/ PDD NOS/Schizophrenia/Bipolar Manic Depression, Autoimmune Disorders (such as Ankylosing Spondylitis, Fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid Arthritis) and people with Syndrome X (including people with Diabetes, Dyslipidaemia, Obesity and the like). The nutrition service offered at his Brunswick East practice focuses on holistic, integrative and expressive health care, with the ultimate aim of focusing on the treatment of disease rather than simply the allopathic alleviation of symptoms. Nutritional/Herbal supplements are only recommended when their likely benefit can be clearly demonstrated and part of a clear, systematic, strategic and goal-oriented health plan. Rocco also provides consultations in fluent Italian. Rocco has lectured at Swinburne Graduate School of Integrative Medicine. As a result of his past employment as a Community and Clinical Dietitian, Rocco is a strong advocate of community development and health promotion principles, recognising that failure to invest in social infrastructure to help build healthy communities significantly encourages disease development and progression. As a result of his interests, Rocco appears on radio, lectures to health professionals and the public on a wide variety of topics involving nutrition and frequently writes articles for both scientific journals and health oriented magazines. Rocco also contributed a chapter in a book exploring the use of natural therapies in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus published in 2006. Rocco has also established the first Dietitians in Integrative Nutritional Medicine Discussion Group for APDs in Australia. This group seeks to support, guide and upskill interested Dietitians in this emerging area of medicine and provide them with a supportive base from which they can confidently develop skills and expertise in this area. The objective is to significantly expand the group in the coming months via strategic alliance with neutraceutical companies, functional pathology laboratories, institutes of functional medicine and with our United States based counterparts.