President 

Dr Fiona Willer

Experience

Dr Fiona Willer is the 18th President of Dietitians Australia.

Fiona is Australia’s first dual-qualified dietitian and bioethicist, an Advanced Accredited Practicing Dietitian. Known nationally for her leadership in advocating weight-inclusive healthcare and fostering entrepreneurship, Fiona is a long-standing lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She also holds a senior research role at the University of Queensland’s School of Business, focusing on optimising digital primary care services and exploring the role of AI and other emerging technologies to enhance human-centered healthcare.

Fiona’s career spans higher education, nonprofit, and private sectors. Her research expertise includes weight stigma, health consciousness, body appreciation, and the application of inclusive, weight-neutral approaches—such as Health at Every Size®—in healthcare practice, health promotion and policy. 

Fiona is also the founder of Health, Not Diets, a consultancy dedicated to inclusive, weight-neutral healthcare, which celebrated 10 years of advocacy in 2023. She produces the Unpacking Weight Science podcast, a unique professional development resource for healthcare providers. An experienced board director, Fiona has served on the board of Dietitians Australia since 2019 and held previous board roles with Size Inclusive Health Australia (formerly HAES Australia) and the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) in the USA.

Qualifications

B.A. (English & Anthropology), B.HlthSc (Nutrition & Dietetics)(hons), M Bioethics (Distinction),PhD, AdvAPD, FHEA, GAICD

Chair

Chair of the People and Culture Committee

Dr Nadine White

Experience

Dr. Nadine White is an experienced independent non-executive director in both the public and private sectors, with a distinguished career serving on boards across the aged care, health, disability, Indigenous affairs, and financial services sectors. She has specialized expertise in people and culture matters. 

Nadine has been a Director with Care Connect Ltd since 2019, Scope Australia Ltd since 2022, and Community Services #1 during 2022-2023. In November 2023, she was appointed as Director to Goodwin Aged Care Services and Dietitians Australia. In 2024, Nadine was appointed to the Icon Water Board. Nadine has also served as the Deputy Chair of several boards, including the Canberra-based charity Raising Hope Education Foundation, the ACT Minister’s Work Health & Safety Council, and the Canberra local Bendigo Bank. 

Additionally, she has been a member of the ACT government’s Reconciliation Council and is the inaugural convenor and partner of the ACT Mentor Walks program for women. Before transitioning to a full-time Non-Executive Director role, Nadine spent much of her executive career in human resources and workplace relations within large, complex organizations. She served as Chief People Officer at the Australian National University for ten years.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Law & Administration, Bachelor of Laws (Honours), Doctor of Philosophy, Graduate, Australian institute of Company Directors and Silver Badge, Governing for Reform in Aged Care.

Vice-President

Professor Lauren Ball

Experience

Professor Lauren Ball is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and is one of Australia’s leading primary care researchers. Lauren works with community members, health professionals, education providers, and professional bodies to reach her goal of reorienting primary health care to focus on prevention, rather than cure, so that all people can reach their full potential.

Lauren has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in highly targeted journals and has attracted over $15 million from government bodies, non-government organisations and philanthropic foundations. She is the Director of the Centre for Community Health and Wellbeing at the University of Queensland and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Fellow. 

Lauren is a passionate supervisor and mentor, supervising 17 researchers to successful PhD completion, and currently supervising 10 more PhD candidates. Within her team, institution and research community, Lauren is an advocate for knowledge translation and impact.

Qualifications

AdvAPD, BAppSc, MNutrDiet, Grad Cert Higher Ed, Grad Dip Health Economics & Health Policy, PhD, GAICD

Director

Chair of the Membership and Professional Development Committee

Mark Booth

Experience

Mark is currently a Principal with Nous Group where Mark specialises in delivering strategic policy advice to clients in the health and aged cares sectors.  Prior to joining Nous Mark was as the CEO of Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) which is the key standard setter that sits at the centre of the food regulatory system across Australia and New Zealand.  This role gave Mark great experience in all aspects of the food system across Australia and New Zealand and internationally.

Mark has worked for over 35 years in public policy and has worked at the highest levels of government in four different countries. He has worked in the public, private and academic sectors, and has led national level health transformation projects. He is expert in delivering practical solutions to complex issues; dealing with complex stakeholder environments; regulatory policy and practice; and in leading organisational and cultural change.  

Prior to his role at FSANZ, Mark spent over a decade within the federal health portfolio in a variety of strategic policy roles that has given him great experience and understanding of the Australian health and aged care system. 

Qualifications

Master of Arts (Economics), Executive Masters in Public Administration, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Economics, Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health, Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

Director

Chair of the Governance Audit, Finance and Risk Committee

Scott Dorries

Experience

Scott joined the Board of Beaucare in 2017 as Treasurer and the Board of Tallebudgera Surf Life Saving Club in 2018 as Treasurer and the Board of TransitCare in 2019 as Deputy Chair. Scott is a finance executive with over 29 years of work experience in roles from Chief Financial Officer to Executive Manager Finance and General Manager Finance and Operations. 

Scott has multiple industry sector experience ranging from Banking and Finance (including Mutuals and Member Based), Transport and Logistics, Early Childhood Education, Community Housing and Member and Community Services in the Not For Profit, Public (State and Local Government) and Private organisations. Scott derives immense satisfaction out of creating community support benefits and making a real difference for the Logan, Scenic Rim, Townsville and Cairns, Redland, Brisbane and Gold Coast councils and communities.

 A Fellow CPA, Fellow GIA, and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, he has experience and a strong focus in strategic planning, commercial management, corporate governances, mergers, demergers, acquisitions, new entity formations, risk and HR management. Scott has extensive customer and community service knowledge and leadership experience to produce innovative insights and make sustainable, strategic, collective, ethical, and individual decisions.

Qualifications

FCPA, GAICD, FGIA, Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) 

Director

Suzanne Kennewell

Experience

Suzanne is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) with over 30 years’ experience in healthcare. Suzanne has worked in clinical and corporate roles; in rural, regional and metropolitan areas; and is currently Director of Nutrition and Dietetics for Sydney Local Health District. Suzanne is also co-chair for the Agency for Clinical Invocations’ Nutrition in Hospitals Committee. 

Suzanne has made significant contribution to a number of government and professional policy documents. She has represented the Dietetic profession at both a National and State level. Suzanne has a strong interest in the development of nutrition standards and policy relating to institutional food services. She has undertaken and supported research in clinical food services and its impact on patient nutritional care. 

Suzanne has a particular interest in management of allergens in the food service setting and her previous role included responsibility for development of an integrated food safety and allergen management program for a number of hospitals in Sydney.

As part of a Masters in Business Administration Suzanne has also undertaken research in the area of support systems within healthcare, exploring the interface between clinical and corporate support systems. More recently she has collaborated with Sydney University to pilot research exploring a unique method to measure patient experience of hospital meal services. She has presented at national and international conferences, and lectures to students within the Nutrition and Dietetics course at Sydney University.

Qualifications

Masters Nutrition and Dietetics, Masters Business Administration (Health), APD

Director

Lina Breik

Director

Associate Professor Janeane Dart

Get in touch

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