Poojitha L Acharya

Passionate and results-driven Senior Dietician with extensive experience in developing and implementing nutrition programs to promote health and wellness. Equipped with a comprehensive understanding of dietary guidelines, nutritional science, and therapeutic diets, I specialize in designing personalized nutrition plans to meet the diverse needs of clients across all life stages. With a commitment to evidence-based practice and continuous learning, I strive to empower individuals to make informed dietary choices and achieve their health goals.

Senior Dietician - Freelance Medical Private Practice

(2023-01)

Committed to providing personalized nutrition solutions that empower individuals to achieve their health and wellness goals. With a passion for helping clients make sustainable lifestyle changes through evidence-based nutrition guidance. Offered comprehensive services tailored to meet the unique needs of each individual. Through compassionate care, clear communication, and a client-centered approach, strived to make a meaningful impact on the lives of those I served.

• Managed & Reversed more than 500+ patients online upto date (throughout from 2018)

Senior Nutrition & Research Analyst, Further Promoted As Head Of Diabetic Educators - BeatO Healthcare/ health arx technologies pvt ltd

(2021-04 - 2022-08)

• Planning the Nutrition product and process
• Managing the team & organizing the process
• Involved in the New product development & diabetic reversal program
• Developed DietDNA CGM based process
• Diabetic care, Reversal & Control program development
• Handling CGM & AGP graphs with diabetes expertise
• Further Designed care programs for both Diabetic control & Reversal Programs
• Team management & product designing & Setting Kpi's
• Career break for 6 months due to health issues

Senior Consultant Dietician (Private medical practice) - Suyog Multi Speciality Hospital

(2021-06 - 2022-04)

• OPD/IP consultations, POST COVID DIET COUNSELLINGS
• Identifying nutrition problems and assessing the nutritional status of patients in a clinical setting
• Developing diet plans and counseling patients on special diet modifications
• Assessing, promoting, protecting, and enhancing the health of the general public in a community setting and providing strategies for prevention of nutrition-related diseases
• Managing a cost effective food production operation, distributing high quality meals/snacks, and monitoring sanitation and safety standards in a food service setting

Product Nutritionist - Nutrilab-Healthifyme

(2020-10 - 2021-04)

Due to corona outbreak had to take gap for 6 months and worked on Contract Basis work for 6 +/- 1 months in Healthifyme as Senior Product Nutritionist From October 2020 to March 2021 Work from Home

• Career break from corporates for 3 months due to corona had to move back to native

Senior Wellness Coach - Twinhealth/Twins Digital - Bengaluru

(2019-08 - 2020-06)

Worked as Senior Wellness coach (Virtual coach) targeting diabetes and weight loss and reversing of diabetes in Twins Digital/Twin Health diabetic reversal company in Bengaluru.

• CGM's were used and precision individualized diets were planned according to the patients blood glucose study through ambulatory glucose profiling with 24 hrs monitoring
• Handled 100 Patients with Virtual Coaching and 40% successful Reversal
• Involved in training the new onboarding and virtual coaches plus handled
• Post covid had to quit due to lockdown as had to return to native

Senior Consultant Dietician (Private medical practice) - Sri Sai Hospital, Attibele, Bengaluru - Bengaluru

(2019-06 - 2020-06)

Initially 1 month full time OPD Consultant initially further as part time (on call basis)

• Performed initial patient diet and nutrition screenings
• Worked with clinic trainers to develop nutritional plans that complemented patient fitness regimens and CME involvements
• Performed office tasks such as filing, data entry with Hospital Canteen Quality Intervention
• Assisted managing dietitian in teaching diabetes classes and Nutrition classes

Consultant Food Safety Auditing - Compass Group

(2019-05 - 2019-08)

Worked with Compass a food service MNC as Consultant HSEQ for food safety auditing for multiple sites like JP morgan, Qualcomm & Compass central processing unit for 3 months as a third party consultant & Further as independent Auditor

Lecturer And Consultant Dietician Further Promoted As Asst. Professor - Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Tamaka Kolar

(2018-08 - 2019-04)

• Involved in KNEIP Project and hospital camps and IP Consultations
• The hospital was 1400 beds with 5 ICU worked with all the departments
• Worked as internal examiner of practical and theory for MSc integrated Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics
• Designed diet plans for individuals with chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease and Maintained Food Quality Inspections in the hospital and University Premises
• Provided nutritional intervention and counseling for high-risk individuals
• Adjusted diet plans throughout the patient transformation process to ensure steady progress towards goals
• Taught community diabetes awareness and prevention courses for both nursing and as CME

Masters - Food science, Nutrition & Dietetics - University Of Mysore (UOM) (2016 - 2018)

BSc - Food science, Nutrition & Dietetics - University Of Mysore (UOM) (2013 - 2016)