Meet Jenna
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BFSc&Nutr, MNutr&Dietet, APD
Jenna is a Senior Dietitian who is passionate about providing evidence-based nutrition care that is flexible and individualised to the needs of her patients. She is a compassionate and friendly healthcare provider with over a decade of clinical nutrition experience having worked as a dietitian in both public and private hospitals in rural and metropolitan locations. Jenna has worked across all healthcare settings from intensive care to acute hospital wards to rehabilitation with Alfred Health in Victoria. She has also worked in many specialised outpatient services including clinics in cardiology, diabetes, renal disease, food allergy, neurology, and home enteral nutrition.
Jenna has extensive experience working in intensive care, neurosurgery, neurology, and stroke at The Alfred Hospital where she also recently set up the nutrition service in the multidisciplinary Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension outpatient clinic, providing nutrition support to patients on a range of medical therapies, including GLP-1 weight loss drugs. Jenna has also completed nutrition research and published work in medical journals with a focus on understanding and improving nutrition intake and care throughout hospitalisation. She is passionate about bridging the gap between hospital care and life at home after hospital discharge.
Jenna is excited to work with you in providing a treatment plan that is goal-orientated, effective and achievable.
