Anna Millichamp

Background

About Anna Millichamp

I am proudly autistic-ADHD, non-binary, queer, paediatric and eating disorders dietitian with lived experience of an eating disorder. The intersections of these identities and experiences inform the foundations of my clinical practice, teaching, advocacy, and research work.Building on my Bachelor of Business (Finance) from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Nutrition & Dietetics)(Hons) from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, I have spent more than a decade specialising as a paediatric dietitian. Since 2020, I have taught into the Master of Nutrition and Dietetics and, more recently, into the Medical Program as a senior sessional teaching fellow at Bond University. In 2022, I began my PhD journey, seeking to illuminate how neurodivergent adults make sense of their childhood and adolescent feeding and eating experiences, ultimately aiming to contribute evidence to inform dignity-based nutrition practice that challenges traditional neuronormative paediatric feeding and eating practices and improves wellbeing outcomes for neurodivergent people.As Deputy Chair of Eating Disorders Neurodiversity Australia, a lived experience-led not-for-profit organisation, I actively advocate for improved awareness, supports and services for neurodivergent folks experiencing an eating disorder, and their kin and carers.