Nutritionist, Dietitian, Academics, NGO

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr. Archana Ainapure

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Profile:

1)Over 29 years of cross cultural experience as an Associate

Professor (7 years), Nutritionist & Dietetic Consultant (20+

years) and 10+ years of experience as a Manager responsible

for Administration, Brand Promotion, Client Relationship

Management and inter-disciplinary Coordination in a

multinational company in Dubai and Bahrain.

2)Worked collaboratively with General Manager and Marketing

Manager to create sales & marketing strategies and annual

marketing plans. Developed and improved the strategic

corporate communications framework.

3)Responsible for Mapping Needs of the Customer and Data

Gathering of their Vital Signs.

4)Preparation of Wellness Packages.

5) Skilled in Training various inter-departmental Teams to work

in sync with corporate parameters and motivating them for

achieving business and individual goals.

6)An effective communicator with good presentation skills.

Work Experience:

Currently working as Area Technical Head at VLCC international Pune.

1) 1986-1993, Associate Professor (Nutrition), Rajaram

college, Shivaji University and M.M.P. Shah College, S.N.D.T

University, Mumbai, India.

2) More than 10 years’ experience as Sr. Nutritionist:

A) 2016- till date. Sr. Dietitian with Bin Mahmood Holding, Bahrain;

B) September 2009 - 2012: Health Factory, Dubai, UAE as Sr.

Dietitian;

C) 1993-2005 Dietician & Nutritional Consultant,

Bahrain and Dubai.

3) 2006 - 2009 & 2012 – 2015: Area Technical Head VLCC,

Bahrain and Dubai.

My recent teaching experience was at VLCC International in

Dubai and Bahrain for more than 5 years as an Area Technical

Head and for more than 10 years as a Senior Nutritionist. As a

part of my overall responsibilities, I provided training, coaching

and mentorship to a young team of dieticians and nutrition

professionals. This tenure provided me significant and diverse

practical experience and allowed me to study and analyses the

relationship between body composition, various hormonal

imbalances and the effect of food thereon.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

1)BSC SNDT University Bombay, India Food Science &Nutrition

2)MSC SNDT University Bombay, India Food Science &Nutrition

3)M.Phil. SNDT UniversityBombay, India Food Science &Nutrition

4)Diploma inHospital &Health Care Management Bombay Management

Association, India Special subject :Organization &Management of

Dietary departments in hospitals

5)Ph.D. Amaravati University,India Food Science &Nutrition

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

" My research areas, over the years, have been primarily

focused on:

A) Maternal Nutrition and pregnancy outcomes

AND

B) Obesity.

I have published the following papers in

publications of National institute of Nutrition (Nutrition

society of India), Indian Dietetic Association, International

congress of Nutrition and other university publications. Some

salient examples of my published articles are as follows:

A)Maternal Nutritional Status, age, pattern of gestational

weight gain and pregnancy outcome (studied 300 Omani

Women) in the Muscat Capital Governorate, Sultanate of

Oman;

B) Vitamin B-6 status of infants in relation to maternal

nutritional status (studied 150 women at Cooper Hospital,

Juhu, Mumbai);

C) A study of organization and management

of the dietary departments of Mumbai Hospitals (21 Hospitals

in Mumbai);

D) A comparative study of 50 obese and 50 nonobese

girls (15-21 years);

E) Socio-Economic and Socio-Cultural influences on women’s nutritional status;

F) Unitcost, cost-effectiveness, and financing of nutritional

intervention and of health and medical practices.

" Some examples of other published work in popular and

scientific publications are (attached)

" 5) I have co-authored books published by the Maharashtra

State Board of Higher Secondary Education for the vocational

courses of crèche and preschool management

" During my extensive tenure at VLCC international as an Area

Technical Head, I was a part of the Training and R&D team of

their International Research Group. Some examples of study

and research papers I generated during my ten-year tenure

are:

A) Development of diets and new passive activities for

treatment of constipation (study sample of 150 constipated

subjects);

B) Compilation of yogic exercises and development

of specific diets for therapeutic purposes (study sample of 20

subjects for each condition);

C) Development of practical

guidelines for PCOD and Thyroid Diets (study sample of 300

subjects);

D) Development of Visual Guidelines for popular

Arabic popular food;

E) Co-relation between 9 servings of

protein in a day and weight loss (study sample of 50

vegetarian and 50 non-vegetarian subjects);

F) Developmentof Detox Diets and Detox Therapies for Detoxification purpose

(study sample of 50);

G) Study of Body Composition Analysis

and its relation with various hormonal imbalances and prediabetic

conditions (studied 300 BCA’s);

H) Weight loss data analysis of all the clients visiting centers and guidelines for Dieticians.

" I was employed with a company called Bin Mahmood

Holding as a Nutritional & Dietetics subject matter expert.

Under the auspices of this organization, I have presented

papers to the Bahrain Ministry of health entitled:

A)Nutritional values of Arabic recipes served in restaurants;

B)B) I have presented a paper on Bread production with reduced

salt content and have been accorded an approval from

Ministry of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to be

labeled as “Low Sodium Bread” for the “Delmon” branded

bread of the company;

C) An interesting project that I am currently working on is undertaken on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Bahrain. The project involves Nutritional

Screening of children from 45 Municipal Schools (35000

students) in Bahrain for which my organization provides midday

meals.

" I have participated in several radio shows, have written

articles in scientific journals (most of my work is on

pregnancy and pregnancy outcome) and given expert

comments in popular magazines.

" I am a life member of:

A) Nutrition Society of India.

B) Indian Dietetic Association.

C) Gulf Nutrition Association.

" I was a member of the Board of Studies at Shivaji University,

Kolhapur.

" I am a member of the panel of external examiners for PhD

students at Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University.

" I was a member of the NAAC committee during my tenure at

the MMP Shah College, SNDT University, Mumbai.

" I was a member of the Syllabus Committee at the Indira

Gandhi National Open University for Nutrition Courses

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