Nutrition & Dietetics

Emily Gill

Emily Gill shares the Clinic Coordinator for Nutrition and Dietetics Clinic with Anna Gibbins.  She graduated from QUT in 1997 and is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and a Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician with over 20 years of clinical practise experience including in private practice and tertiary hospital settings. Emily has experience in delivering medical nutrition therapy across a range of chronic disease specialties including within renal, respiratory, general medical and rehabilitation and eating disorders teams.

Emily is a passionate promoter of positive attitudes towards food and body image and enjoys working with clients to find practical solutions to meet their nutrition goals.   She has a particular interest in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders and currently works alongside the QUT Eating Disorder Clinic Team

Anna Gibbins

Anna Gibbins shares the Clinic Coordinator for Nutrition and Dietetics Clinic with Emily Gill.  She graduated from QUT in 2003 and is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian with over 15 years of clinical practise experience including community and hospital settings within both the public and private workforce in both Australia and the UK. Previous areas of work have included rehabilitation, infectious diseases, neurology, oncology, mental health, bariatric surgery and gastroenterology.  Anna has also enjoyed working as a Clinical Community Dietitian providing nutrition advice and support to people in their own homes.

Anna enjoys seeing a wide variety of cases, and is dedicated to helping clients navigate individualised dietary solutions to help manage chronic health conditions.  She currently coordinates the QUT-RBWH T2DM Partnership Program which is a multidisciplinary group program run in collaboration with QUT students. She thoroughly enjoys supporting QUT Dietetic students to become confident clinicians.

Melanie Bannister

Melanie Bannister is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with extensive experience in a wide range of clinical areas across both paediatrics and adults.  After graduating with first class honours at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Melanie has worked in both acute care clinical and research settings and has over 10 years experience delivering complex dietetic care services.  Melanie has experience in delivering medical nutrition therapy across a range of specialties including gastroenterology, oncology, respiratory, paediatric and chronic diseases.

Melanie has published several articles contributing to industry best practice guidelines and presented at national and international conferences.  Melanie is dedicated to providing patient-centred care and also has a keen interest in supporting and teaching our next generation of dietitian professionals.

Kelly Stewart

Dr Kelly Stewart is an Accredited Practising Clinical and Sports Dietitian and supervises the Sports Nutrition Clinic in the QUT Health Clinics. She loves supporting athletes to meet their nutrition, hydration and performance goals. Whether you are an elite athlete or weekend warrior, Kelly can help you find simple tasty and practical nutrition solutions to help you reach your potential.

Kelly graduated from the University of Queensland with a double degree in Science and Human Movement Studies and an Honours research degree in Exercise Physiology. She then completed a Master of Nutrition and Dietetics at Deakin University. After holding the Sports Nutrition Fellowship at the Australian Institute of Sport in 2000, Kelly returned to Brisbane for a joint appointment with the Queensland Reds and QUT. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at QUT and recently completed her PhD in the bone health of high performance athletes.

In her spare time, Kelly likes to play sport, watch sport and drive her kids to sport! Oh and she likes to eat too!!

Rebecca Knight

Rebecca Downes is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Accredited Sports Dietitian with degrees in Nutrition & Dietetics and Human Movement Studies (QUT) and postgraduate qualifications in Health Management (QUT). She has a strong background in private practice consulting predominantly in chronic disease, weight management and paediatrics. She also has experience working in hospital in the home/post-acute care, corporate health and with recreational athletes.

Rebecca is passionate about providing evidence-based, client-centred care, and has a particular interest in paediatric health. She is now employed as a clinical lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics, teaching our future dietitians and mentoring final year students in the QUT Nutrition and Dietetics Clinic.