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Liz provides a thorough and clinically relevant update on the changing landscape of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) management. She gives a background to the medical management including biologic advances and new non-invasive scanning techniques which allow for early identification of IBD flares. Using her extensive clinical experience and the emerging evidence, Liz focuses on the dietary strategies in management of IBD. These include exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN), and the Crohn’s Disease Exclusion Diet. She highlights the challenges of supporting clients with IBD, particularly around adherence to restrictive dietary approaches, and emphasises the vital role of dietitians in personalised, evidence-based care.

Learn about:

• Evolving nutrition therapies in IBD – including the use of EEN in both paediatric and adult Crohn’s disease, the Crohn’s Disease Exclusion Diet (CDED), and emerging approaches like CD-Treat.
• The impact of diet and food components – such as ultra-processed foods, emulsifiers, fibre, and probiotics/prebiotics on inflammation, gut microbiota, and clinical symptoms.
• The role of dietitians in IBD care – from supporting adherence and patient engagement to collaborating with gastroenterologists and psychologists to deliver holistic, multidisciplinary care.

Liz Purcell is an Advanced Accredited Practicing Dietitian, with more than 25 years’ experience. Throughout her career, Liz has developed extensive clinical expertise in a range of practice domains and across the continuum of care but harbors a particular interest and has advanced clinical knowledge in Gastroenterology and Intensive Care nutrition. 

Over the past few years, Liz has published research in Extended Scope of Practice MOC and Inflammatory Bowel Disease and represented her profession Nationally and Internationally in these areas, contributing towards the development of National Guidelines, Australian Standards and Action plans.

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