Melissa is a Senior Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) specialising in women’s and paediatric dietetics. After completing her Bachelor of Biomedical Science (2003), first class honours (2004), Melissa followed a Masters of Nutrition & Dietetics (MND) at Flinders University in 2005. With nearly two decades of clinical expertise in tertiary hospitals including a decade at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, as well as the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, she has dedicated her career to transforming the health outcomes of mothers, babies, and children through her compassionate, non-judgemental approach and best practice nutritional guidance.

Melissa can provide children’s feeding guidance for nutritional adequacy, to prevent deficiencies and support growth, oral and enteral (tube feeding) nutrition support across areas such as neonatology, gastroenterology (IBS, coeliac disease), allergy and intolerances, neurodivergence or sensory processing disorders, fussy or picky eaters, congenital conditions, disability (including NDIS plan or self-managed), or nutritional rehabilitation following illness.

Melissa is passionate about giving your family the best start at life’s important chapters and can support women and families across their pregnancy journey including nutrition for fertility (individuals and couples), managing a healthy pregnancy (gestational diabetes, diabetes in pregnancy, nutritional adequacy in pregnancy, vegetarian diets, iron deficiency) and beyond. She is an experienced women’s health dietitian with proven expertise in research and lecturing in areas such as gestational diabetes and pregnancy nutrition. In 2025 Melissa founded Blossom Women’s and Family Dietetics to support women, children and families access quality professional nutrition support services in the community.