Alice Day

Dr Alice Day is an Advanced Gastroenterology Research Dietitian with the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Translational Research Group at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital & Basil Hetzel Institute in Adelaide, South Australia and holds an adjunct role as a clinical dietitian. Alice completed her PhD in 2021 on food-related quality of life and therapeutic dietary interventions for ulcerative colitis at The University of Adelaide. Alice now leads the diet stream in the broader microbial manipulation research program which focuses on investigating interventional approaches to manipulate the gut microbiome for therapeutic effect, in particular using dietary therapies and faecal microbiota transplantation. Alice’s research group are investigating a sulphide-reducing diet as therapy for people with ulcerative colitis in collaboration with Monash University and Alice is principal investigator on a current placebo-controlled randomised controlled trial. In her clinical role Alice’s team are exploring new models of care for delivering dietary care in gastroenterology clinics.