Rosan Meyer

Rosan completed her degree in Dietetics in South Africa and specialised in paediatric nutrition in the UK. In 2004, she finished her MSc in Paediatric Nutrition and in 2008 her PhD at Imperial College London. She was the principal research dietitian at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children until December 2015, leading a project on the impact of gastrointestinal food allergies on children and their families and after this worked with the allergy team at St. Thomas Hospital as research dietitian until 2018. In addition, she has a busy paediatric dietetic practice specialising in food allergy, feeding difficulties including ARFID, nutritional support and faltering growth. Rosan is trained in the SOS feeding approach and has recently completed her introduction training in CBT. She has also recently completed training to support families with children who would like to follow a plant-based diet.

She has published numerous articles on paediatric nutrition, food allergy, feeding difficulties and is in particular interested in the association between growth, feeding difficulties and food allergy. She has also co-authored the Paediatric Dietetic Pocket Guide, that aims to provide guidance on nutritional management in paediatrics.

She is currently module leader for the Food Hypersensitivity Module that forms part of the MSc in Allergy at Imperial College London, and is honorary senior lecturer in paediatrics at the same university. She is also visiting Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium, on their MSc on Deglutology (swallow disorders). She is the chair of the International Network for Diet and Allergy, Chair of the Allied Health and Primary Care section of EAACI and member of several EAACI task forces on food allergy.

Rosan is fluent in English, German, Afrikaans and has a B1 level French.

Rosan has been seeing paediatric patients privately since 2005. She currently primarily provides video consultations (using Zoom platform which is GDPR compatible), which allows parents to do the consultations from the comfort of their home and if required, the consultation can be recorded. Her private practice has a specialist focus on allergies and intolerances, childhood feeding difficulties including ARFID, neurodevelopmental disorders (ASD, ADHD), vitamin and mineral deficiencies, faltering growth and nutritional support. She sees children from birth up to 16 years of age.