Louise Mudge is a specialist dietitian at Adelaide Gastrointestinal Specialists. She is an Accredited Practising Dietitian, completing a Masters in Nutrition & Dietetics at Flinders University South Australia in 1998.

Louise has more than 25 years clinical experience both in private practice and her former role as Senior Dietitian/ Team Leader, Digestive Diseases, Royal Adelaide Hospital. This involved coordinating nutrition and dietetic services to the Gastroenterology, Professorial Oesophago-Gastric Surgery, Pancreatic & Hepatobiliary Surgery & Colorectal Surgery teams.

She is results driven and committed to evidence based practice. She participates in research to inform her patient care. During 2010-2015 she was seconded to the University of Adelaide Discipline of Surgery as the Clinical Trial Coordinator for a national multicentre trial evaluating specialised nutrition “immunonutrion” use in patients undergoing surgery for oesophageal cancer. She presented the results at the 2016 ESPEN Congress in Copenhagen and published in the British Journal of Surgery.

She specialises in the dietary management of patients with reflux, achalasia and motility disorders, gastric and oesophageal cancer.

She has expertise in the implementation of preoperative low calorie “liver shrinking” diets and was involved in recent research evaluating their use, along with body composition analysis (InBody 570) in patients before surgery for reflux. This enables to facilitate quality weight loss (fat mass) whilst minimising muscle mass loss. Body composition analysis also allows monitoring of visceral fat stores. She was invited to share this knowledge at the 2024 AANZGOSA/ SUGGS conference in Sydney. She has extensive experience in weight and obesity management, including supporting clients on GLP-1 medications.

Louise also has considerable experience managing patients with sarcopenia and malnutrition; IBS, functional dyspepsia and implementation of a Low FODMAP Diet (Monash University trained); lactose intolerance; Crohn’s & Ulcerative Colitis; Coeliac Disease; pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis; bowel obstruction, MAFLD & liver disease.