Rocco Di Vincenzo Consultant Dietitian

Rocco Di Vincenzo is part of the the Priority One centre Health team and his qualifications speak for themselves!

Mr. Rocco Di Vincenzo is a Consultant Dietitian,

(APD), BSc MND PGrad Dip App Sci (Swinburne University),

Member DAA CMA ACNEM AIMA AAOH IFM (Accredited Practising Dietitian - APD),

We are proud to offer Rocco's services to you.

Email: info@priorityone.net.au Tel: 03 5261 9329 Mobile: 0422 853 411

About Rocco Di Vincenzo

Rocco works privately in a variety of clinics around metropolitan Melbourne. He has worked as a Community Senior Dietitian for over a decade and until recently as the Swinburne University Hospital Chief Dietitian.

Rocco has completed a Bachelor of Science (Monash University), a Masters in Human Nutrition and Dietetics (Deakin University) and most recently a Postgraduate Diploma in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine at Swinburne University's Graduate School of Integrative Medicine (GSIM).

He has had a keen interest in the area of Functional Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (FNEM) for many years and is now formally trained in the area. Rocco is also currently undertaking a PhD looking at crucial nutritional and lifestyle factors that are likely to be contributing to the increasing incidence of Type II Diabetes within the Vietnamese community in Melbourne.

Rocco has a particular interest in individually tailored, patient-centred nutrition intervention programs and the justifiable, evidence-based, strategic use of pharmaceutical grade natural nutritional supplements (as a treatment adjunct) in treating the cause of disease and alleviation of patient symptomatology.

The nutrition service offered focuses on holistic, integrative and expressive health care, with the ultimate aim of focusing on the treatment of disease rather than simply the allopathic alleviation of symptoms.

Nutritional supplements are only recommended when their likely benefit can be clearly demonstrated and clearly as part of a systematic, strategic and goal oriented health plan. Rocco has a special interest in how food and nutrition (including nutritional supplementation) is an absolutely crucial and pivotal adjunct in the treatment of

gastrointestinal dysfunction and disorders,
liver dysfunction,
behavioural/neurological disorders such as ADHD/Autism,
autoimmune diseases (such as Ankylosing Spondylitis, Fibromyalgia and Rheumatoid Arthritis) and
people with syndrome x (including people with diabetes, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, obesity and the like).

Rocco has lectured at Swinburne Graduate School of Integrative Medicine and is currently lecturing at the Australian College of Natural Medicine.

As a result of his past employment as a community Dietitian, Rocco is a strong advocate of community development and health promotion principles, recognising that failure to invest in social infrastructure to help build healthy communities significantly encourages disease development and progression.

Rocco regularly appears on radio, lectures to health professionals, and the public on a wide variety of topics involving nutrition and frequently writes articles for both scientific journals and health-oriented magazines.

Rocco has also recently completed a chapter in a book exploring the use of natural therapies in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus to be published late in 2006.

Rocco has also established the first Dietitians in Integrative Nutritional Medicine Interest Group for Accredited Practising Dietitians in Australia. This group seeks to support, guide and up skill interested Dietitions in this emerging area of medicine and provide them with a supportive base from which they can confidently develop skills and expertise in this area.