Dt. Ruchi Meena

Dt. Ruchi Meena is passionate about Dietetics and Nutrition as she has done B.Sc (Home Science) Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics and M.Sc( Home Science) Food & Nutrition. Her area of interests in the field of nutrition are weight management, diabetes management and sports nutrition. She worked at Pretti slim clinic in Mumbai where she has provided diet and nutrition counseling to clients and prepared and monitored diet plans on a weekly basis. Also, she worked as Research Assistant at the Imperial weight centre ( Imperial College London), Charring Cross Hospital (London). She was certified in Good Clinical practices(UK based) and then involved in a clinical research trial(NN 8022-1839). She was actively involved in this study and assisted the investigators with blood handling and data management. During this study,  she also completed phlebotomy training and training  Inform(EDC -electronic data capture system) and IWRS( Interactive Web Response System) and Also she shadowed all dietary counseling session which are provided by the trial Research Dietitian.She was also involved in Diabetes UK as an event volunteer and involved running Diabetes UK  awareness stands in several communities across London where she was responsible for distributing information relating to the signs and symptoms of type 1 & 2  diabetes, risk factors and Healthy lifestyle. Also attended diabetes UK Healthy lifestyle Roadshows where she raised awareness of the type 2 diabetes risk factors. She attended conferences " The Mediterranean diet revisited" getting to the heart of the fats and Omega 3 debate "What should go on your plate"? and other Conference " Dietary strategies for the management of Cardiovascular risk" was conducted by The Nutrition Society UK and The Royal Society of Medicine, London.