Ms Katherine Healy Dietitian

Katherine Healy is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Accredited Nutritionist. She has extensive clinical experience in a number of major Melbourne metropolitan hospitals along with private practice. Katherine has 12 years of specialized experience managing patients within the full spectrum of gastrointestinal diseases and disorders. She is an Advanced Practice dietitian having established a dietitian led gastroenterology screening clinic with project funding by a Department of Health and Human Services advanced practice in Allied Health Project grant at the Northern Hospital in Melbourne. Katherine now mentors colleagues to establish similar clinics at other organisations. Katherine has conducted research with the Department of Gastroenterology at Monash University; investigating the efficacy of enzyme therapy and nutritional adequacy in vegetarian and vegan diets, within the restraints of a low FODMAP diet. She is also a Microbiological Scientist with 14 years of experience working with the Microbiology Department at Alfred Health. Katherine sees children, adolescents and adults via Telehealth.