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A/Prof Emma Halmos

Australia

Emma Halmos is an Associate Professor of gastroenterology and senior research dietitian at Monash University, and co-founder of the international dietitians’ organisation GI DREAM. Her expertise is in the field of diet in IBS and IBD. Emma’s scientific achievements have had major impact in academia and clinical practice. Most notably, her pivotal feeding study that demonstrated the low FODMAP diet was efficacious in treating IBS, featuring on the cover of Gastroenterology cited >1800 times.

Emma’s reputation is internationally renowned, and she has presented her work at several conferences, including being the first dietitian invited to speak at the plenary of ECCO, world’s largest IBD forum. She was also lead coordinator for the first ECCO consensus guidelines for diet in IBD management. Emma is currently leading research into the role of therapeutic diets for IBD management. She supervises PhD students and is passionate about guiding other dietitians to enter research.