October and November 2025: Register for our upcoming MCADs webinars in collaboration with Active Health Clinic
TAMS is pleased to announce two special webinars in collaboration with Active Health Clinic, a clinic offering a wide range of services including dietetics, exercise physiology, and occupational therapy. Active Health’s focus is on helping individuals with complex, post-viral and chronic illnesses, including those with mast cell activation disorders (MCADs) and co-morbidities, manage their unique needs and challenges while meeting their health goals.
30 October webinar: Dietetics for adults and children with MCADs
Special guest: Mel Grande, Accredited Practising Dietitian
Date: 30 October 2025
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 PM (AEDT)
Location: Zoom (link will be sent 48 hours before the webinar)
Live attendance fee*:
- $3 for members (Members receive unlimited access to all recordings at no cost.)
- $7.30 for non-members
Mel is a dietitian at Active Health, based in Blackburn. She is passionate about using food as a tool to improve people’s quality of life and understands the emotional and physiological impact food can have, particularly when living with invisible illness. She has a special interest in dysautonomia, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, gastrointestinal conditions, and disordered eating. Mel believes in making food easier and more enjoyable for everyone, and she enjoys helping people rebuild a positive relationship with food.
In this webinar, Mel will explore how dietitians can support people of all ages living with MCADs. Topics will include:
- The role of dietitians before and after diagnosis.
- Building safe, nourishing and sustainable eating routines that account for chronic illness fluctuations.
- Supporting food reintroduction, nutrition during flares, and avoiding food fear.
- Managing restricted diets due to comorbidities, including diagnosed or suspected histamine intolerance, and low-FODMAP requirements.
- Addressing nutritional deficiencies and the role of supplements and nutritionally fortified foods.
- Creating practical routines that account for fatigue, cognitive overload, or family dynamics, including dietary management for paediatric patients while catering varied to whole-family needs.
This session will be relevant for patients, carers, and healthcare providers seeking to better understand both adult and paediatric dietary management in MCADs and chronic illness more broadly.
Register and purchase your ticket.
13 November webinar: Exercise physiology and MCADs
Special guests: Emily Cochrane, Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Raeya Bognar, Accredited Exercise Physiologist
Date: Thursday, 13 November 2025
Time: 5:30 – 6:30 PM (AEDT)
Location: Zoom (link will be sent 48 hours before the webinar)
Live attendance fee*:
- $3 for members (Members receive unlimited access to all recordings at no cost.)
- $7.30 for non-members
Emily is a clinical exercise physiologist whose passion lies in inclusive clinical care, informed by her own experiences with neurodivergence, POTS, ME/CFS, and Endometriosis. She founded a physiology clinic in the UK to help fill gaps in care and now supports practitioner training across Australia, the UK, and Ireland.
Raeya is an exercise physiologist at Active Health, drawing on her personal background in ME/CFS and Dysautonomia, as well as clinical experience in pilates, yoga, and meditation. Her holistic approach to care focuses on building safe, sustainable, and personalised routines, informed by her lived experience of long-term invisible illness. She has a special interest in paediatrics, neurodiversity, chronic fatigue, dysautonomia, and hypermobility.
This webinar will look at the role of exercise physiology in MCADs across ages and stages of health. Topics will include:
- How exercise plans can be adapted to fluctuating symptoms, fatigue, or flares.
- Safe ways to reintroduce movement for people with MCADs, POTS, or cardiovascular symptoms.
- Pacing strategies, and making movement sustainable and enjoyable through all phases of chronic illness. Gradually rebuilding tolerance after illness setbacks.
- Addressing balance, proprioception, alongside coordination difficulties that may be implicated by comorbidities.
- Collaborating with other healthcare providers to integrate exercise into a broader care plan.
This session will be relevant for patients, carers, and healthcare providers looking to safely integrate exercise into management of patients with MCADs at various stages of life and illness-stability.
