Welcome Melissa Colombo - Dietitian at Tusmore

We are very pleased to welcome dietitian Melissa Colombo from Blossom Women's & Family Dietetics to Signal Health Tusmore.

You can see Melissa at Signal Health Tusmore on Wednesdays (fortnightly). She has immediate availability and is currently accepting new patients. Book an appointment online now or call us on 7118 7789.

About Melissa

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.

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Dietetic Services Offered by Melissa

Paediatrics (0-18 years)	Chronic Disease Management
✔️ Food Allergies ✔️ Food intolerances (lactose, fructose, sucrose, FODMAPs) ✔️ Starting solids ✔️ Fussy or picky eating and expanding variety ✔️ Vegetarian and Vegan diets ✔️ Nutritional adequacy in texture modified diets ✔️ Prevention and management of nutrition deficiencies ✔️ Iron-deficiency anaemia ✔️ Supporting growth or catch-up growth ✔️ Nutrition rehabilitation post illness ✔️ Oral nutrition support ✔️ Enteral feeding/ tube feeding and weaning ✔️ Feeding therapy ✔️ NDIS	✔️ Nutrition refresher in pre-existing diabetes ✔️ Type 1 or 2 Diabetes (newly diagnosed and refresher consults) ✔️ Insulin- resistance ✔️ Mediterranean diet ✔️ DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet ✔️ Healthy heart (prevention of heart disease) ✔️ Hypercholesterolemia/ hyperlipidaemia, hypertriglyceridemia ✔️ Healthy weight management ✔️ Diet optimisation when commencing Ozempic/ WeGovy ✔️ Diet optimisation in gastric banding/ sleeve gastrectomy ✔️ Peri-operative and post-operative nutrition support ✔️ Nutrition for wound healing
​Women’s Pregnancy	Women’s Health
✔️ Pregnancy planning and fertility (for individuals and couples) ✔️ Gestational diabetes/ pre-existing diabetes in pregnancy ✔️ Hyper-emesis ✔️ Vegetarian/ Vegan diets in pregnancy ✔️ Iron-deficiency anaemia ✔️ Reflux/ constipation ✔️ Optimising nutrition with previous gastric banding/ sleeve gastrectomy in pregnancy ✔️ Post-partum nutrition	✔️ Hormonal health (PCOS/ Endometriosis) ✔️ Healthy weight ✔️ IBS/ FODMAPS ✔️ Iron-deficiency Anaemia ✔️ Vegetarian diets

New Patients to Melissa

We have a new patient form that can be completed via Hotdoc once you have an appointment booked, or you can complete it at your appointment by arriving around 15 minutes before your appointment.

Melissa also asks all new dietetic patients to complete a 3-day food diary before your appointment. Ideally, the diary will include 2 weekdays and 1 weekend day. You can download your food diary here.  Please remember to bring their completed food diary to the appointment. For more information please visit www.signalhealthtusmore.com.au/your-practitioners/melissa-colombo

Directions:

• Address: 350 Portrush Road, Tusmore SA 5065

• From Payneham (towards Burnside Shopping Centre): Head south along Portrush Road. After crossing Kensington Road, the practice will be on your left-hand side (before Greenhill Road).

• From Burnside Shopping Centre (towards Payneham): Head north along Portrush Road. Just after you pass Greenhill Road, the practice will be on your right-hand side (before Kensington Road).

Important Information:

• Free parking is available on site. Please enter the car park via Barr Smith Street.

• Portrush Road can be particularly busy during school drop-off and pick-up times. Please allow extra time to get to us if traveling during these periods.

• The nearest bus stop is Stop 9 (Portrush Rd / Stirling St – East side, Tusmore), located about 100 metres from our practice.

We look forward to welcoming you at Signal Health Tusmore