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What is an Accredited Practising Dietitian?
Accredited Practising Dietitians (APDs) have the qualifications and skills to provide expert nutrition and dietary advice. APDs are university-qualified professionals that undertake ongoing training and education programs to ensure that they are your most up-to-date and credible source of nutrition information, in line with Dietitians Association of Australia Professional Standards.
APDs are trained to assess nutritional needs. They also assist people to manage health conditions and diseases using food as Medical Nutrition Therapy. APDs help treat a wide range of conditions including diabetes, heart disease, cancers, gastrointestinal diseases, food allergies, food intolerance’s, disordered eating as well as overweight and obesity.
APDs can help with everyday healthy eating by translating scientific health and nutrition information into practical advice. APDs:
Accredited Practising Dietitians (APDs) have the qualifications and skills to provide expert nutrition and dietary advice. APDs are university-qualified professionals that undertake ongoing training and education programs to ensure that they are your most up-to-date and credible source of nutrition information, in line with Dietitians Association of Australia Professional Standards.
APDs are trained to assess nutritional needs. They also assist people to manage health conditions and diseases using food as Medical Nutrition Therapy. APDs help treat a wide range of conditions including diabetes, heart disease, cancers, gastrointestinal diseases, food allergies, food intolerance’s, disordered eating as well as overweight and obesity.
APDs can help with everyday healthy eating by translating scientific health and nutrition information into practical advice. APDs:
- Assess individual nutritional needs
- Develop personalised eating plans
- Develop medical nutrition therapy plans
- Deliver group nutrition education sessions
- Sort out nutrition fact from fiction
- Undertake nutrition and food research
- Train health care professionals
- Develop nutrition communications, programs and policies
- Teaching of Carbohydrate Counting (similar to DAFNE Oz)
Whats an an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian?
The Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian (AdvAPD) credential recognises a level of dietetic practice beyond entry level. Advanced practice includes mastery of the skills begun at entry-level and acknowledges an approach to dietetics rather than an area of practice.
Advanced practice describes a level of practice beyond entry-level, but that is not confined to a single or specific area of practice. This allows recognition of a level of practice, rather than expert knowledge and skills in a specific area. Advanced practice is expected to result from a combination of experience, extended and expanded skills and expert knowledge in the decision-making processes necessary to lead in dietetics.
Advanced practice describes a level of practice beyond entry-level, but that is not confined to a single or specific area of practice. This allows recognition of a level of practice, rather than expert knowledge and skills in a specific area. Advanced practice is expected to result from a combination of experience, extended and expanded skills and expert knowledge in the decision-making processes necessary to lead in dietetics.
Areas of Expertise
Pregnancy Dietary & Diabetes Care
Dr Porter currently is a Member of the Board for the Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society (ADIPS). Dr Porter is internationally recognised as an expert in Diabetes In Pregnancy in the area of Indigenous health and rural and remote health care.
In these roles Dr Porter has published numerous journal articles in international journals, together with the new diagnostic guidelines for ADIPS as recognised by the WHO (World Health Organisation). 
Palliation & Cancer Care
Keeping nutritional needs met during treatment is a challenge. Some cancer treatment causes damage that results in swallowing difficulties.
Diet history provides a basis for an individual plan to manage a soft diet or thicken fluids or enteral feeding regime for example with a PEG feeding regime. Eating for Poor Appetite is another area of expertise to help patients going through a bad phase. Supplementary Fluids can be ordered to be delivered to your door step with no freight cost and at hospital tender price. Make an appointment to arrange the most suitable nutritional supplement to suit your health needs. |
Post Surgical Dietary Care & Gastrointestinal Diseases
As the St John of God Geraldton Hospital Dietitian and Diabetes Educator you can receive a seamless transition from surgery to home.
Gastrointestinal surgery brings many dietary challenges requiring expert knowledge in both medical conditions and in food and food preparation. A individualised plan will allow a transition from clear fluids to light diet to full diet that will be nutritionally balanced for your medical conditions. 
Chronic Disease - Diabetes, Renal & Heart Disease
Chronic disease prevention and then treatment is complex. Renal diets from dialysis to continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) require specific dietary changes.
Lifestyle changes in diet and exercise for diabetes and cardio vascular disease means the difference to enjoy a high quality of life with minimal health deterioration. |
Food Allergy & Food Intolerance
With 30 years experience in food allergy and food intolerance Dr Porter will assist with a diagnosis of a food intolerance.
Working with Clinical Immunologist Dr Martin Stuckey a comprehensive study and accurate diagnosis for food allergy will see the patient referred for individual menu planning. For example Coeliac Disease, Dairy allergy etc. Food Intolerance are diagnosed by either the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Elimination programme or by the FODMAP programme. 
Bariatric Surgery for Obesity &
General Eating Disorders Extensive experience with Gastric Sleeve Surgery, Roux En Y Gastric Bypass and with Gastric Lap Band surgery has given many patients the success to the expected weight loss post surgery. With the focus on nutritional support to ensure ongoing health with minimal side effects of the surgery. Surgical solution is consider after lifestyle and other options have been thoroughly explored.
Eating Disorders are seen as young as 8 years of age with male patients the most difficult to diagnose and treat. Working with psychologists and eating disorder teams Dr Porter can determine if the poor eating habits are developing into an Eating Disorder |
The Next Step - Making an Appointment
To make an appointment click on the button below for information to contact us. Our friendly receptionist will take down your details and arrange a suitable day and time for your first appointment. We have a number of new sites that may help with accessing our service. We now have rooms at City Health, Dongara with Batavia Health, in Jurien Bay at the Wellness Clinic and in Leeman at the Silver Chain rooms.
At the first appointment your medical history, letter of referral, medication information, diet history, a diet frequency and social history will be completed. From this standard information a plan of treatment will be discussed. A stepped approach dealing with your most urgent issue with an individualised diet plan or lifestyle changes required, will be provided. Review consultations will cover improvements or difficulties seen, with a progression to correct diet and improve health problems long term.
As an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and Credentialled Diabetes Educator Dr Porter is able to provide dietetic and diabetes educator services that are recognised by all Private Health Funds, by Medicare and by the Department of Veteran Affairs.
Payment for services is on the day of treatment with HICAPS and EFTPOS available for claiming from Private Health Funds, Medicare and Department of Veteran Affairs direct. Please bring your Health Fund and Medicare cards on the day of your appointment. If your doctor has provided paper work, a referral, a care plan or pathology results please bring those too.
Dr Porter provides dietetic and diabetes education to St John of God Geraldton Hospital, to Opal Nursing Home, Juniper Nursing Home, to the Geraldton Regional Aboriginal Medical Service and holds the WA Primary Health Network's Integrated Chronic Disease contract for the Midwest and Murchison regions.
As a Certified Pump Trainer, with all major Australian insulin pump providers, Dr Porter can provide insulin pump initiation or warranty upgrade for all Medtronic, Animas (AMSL) and Roche insulin pumps.
At the first appointment your medical history, letter of referral, medication information, diet history, a diet frequency and social history will be completed. From this standard information a plan of treatment will be discussed. A stepped approach dealing with your most urgent issue with an individualised diet plan or lifestyle changes required, will be provided. Review consultations will cover improvements or difficulties seen, with a progression to correct diet and improve health problems long term.
As an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and Credentialled Diabetes Educator Dr Porter is able to provide dietetic and diabetes educator services that are recognised by all Private Health Funds, by Medicare and by the Department of Veteran Affairs.
Payment for services is on the day of treatment with HICAPS and EFTPOS available for claiming from Private Health Funds, Medicare and Department of Veteran Affairs direct. Please bring your Health Fund and Medicare cards on the day of your appointment. If your doctor has provided paper work, a referral, a care plan or pathology results please bring those too.
Dr Porter provides dietetic and diabetes education to St John of God Geraldton Hospital, to Opal Nursing Home, Juniper Nursing Home, to the Geraldton Regional Aboriginal Medical Service and holds the WA Primary Health Network's Integrated Chronic Disease contract for the Midwest and Murchison regions.
As a Certified Pump Trainer, with all major Australian insulin pump providers, Dr Porter can provide insulin pump initiation or warranty upgrade for all Medtronic, Animas (AMSL) and Roche insulin pumps.