Registered Clinical Dietitian
Resume:
Bhumika Shah, MS, RD
**** ******** ***, **** #***, Northridge, CA 91324
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Objective: To utilize my skills, expertise, and experience as a dietitian for the benefit of others and advance towards my goal of becoming an exemplary dietitian.
Education:
M.S., Nutritional Science, December 2004
San Jose State University, CA
GPA: 3.8/4.0
Post Graduate Diploma in Dietetics and Applied Nutrition, May 2000
University of Mumbai, India
GPA: 3.8/4.0
B.S., Food Nutrition and Dietetics, April 1999
University of Mumbai, India
GPA: 3.5/4.0
Related Experience:
Clinical Dietitian, Per Diem
Lancaster Community Hospital, Lancaster, CA (October 2010 – Present)
• Evaluate anthropometric, biochemical, clinical, and dietary measures to assess patients' nutritional status.
• Develop nutrition and lifestyle care plans and recommend therapeutic diets, counsel patients, their families, significant others or care givers on prescribed diets and monitor adherence and response to therapy.
• Provide ongoing assessment and monitor to assist in improving patient outcomes.
• Function as an integral part of a multidisciplinary treatment team.
Dietetic Intern
Sodexo Distance Dietetic Internship Program (October 2009 – June 2010)
• Participated in clinical specialty rotation at DaVita dialysis clinic in Burbank.
• Completed LTC rotation with PM Management, Inc’s corporate dietitian at 5 different sites and continued to develop more skills by expanding LTC as my concentration for additional 4 weeks.
• Completed clinical hospital rotation at Lancaster Community Hospital, 110 bed acute care facility. Learned to write enteral nutrition, parenteral nutrition and electrolyte orders with order writing privileges; mastered the nutrition care process, and writing of PES statements.
• Participated in community rotations at Head-start, WIC, and local senior center.
• Completed food service management rotation at Sodexo-Wellpoint Cafeteria in Woodland Hills.
Senior Data File Development Specialist
Computrition Inc, Chatsworth, CA (January 2005 – September 2009)
• Carried out nutrient analysis of items, recipes, and menus.
• Reviewed, revised and entered food items, ingredients, recipes, menus and nutrients for customers.
• Provided assistance to implementation and project managers and other team members.
Diet Technician
Olive View Hospital, UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA (April 2005 – March 2006)
• Responsible for, screening low risk patients, providing nutrition care and education, patient menu management, communicating patient needs, and trayline supervision, under the direction of RD.
• Assisted with departmental improvement program.
Volunteer
Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA (March 2004 – September 2004)
• Worked on a weight loss study on Asian women.
• Collaborated education materials to support the research project and conducted nutrient analysis of Asian Indian recipes.
Volunteer
Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara, CA (April 2003 – March 2004)
• Assisted Diet Clerks and Diet Techs in the Dietetics department to fill and collect menu sheets from inpatients.
Dietetic Intern
L.T.M.G. Sion Hospital, Mumbai, India (January 2001 – June 2001)
• Supervised quantity and quality of food items and meal planning in kitchen to ensure high quality standards.
• Consulted patient from intensives, wards, and daily OPD for diabetes, heart, liver, kidney, burns, casualty, GI, pediatrics, ICP, pregnancy, and lactation, under the direction of RD.
Dietitian
Talwalkar Health Center, Mumbai, India (August 2000 - January 2001)
• Served as a Dietitian at one of the India’s biggest health and fitness center.
• Job involved planning, counseling, daily follow-up of the clients for weight loss, gain and body sculpting.
Nutrition Educator
Kellogg’s India, Mumbai, India (August 2000 - December 2000)
• Job involved imparting nutrition education to elementary school students about balanced diet and healthy food habits in a play way method.
Affiliations:
• American Dietetic Association
• California Dietetic Association
Publication:
Comparison of ideal body weight equations and published height-weight tables with body mass index tables for healthy adults in the United States: published in Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Vol. 21, No. 3, 312-319 (2006)
Foreign Languages: Hindi, Gujarati, and Marathi.
Computer Skills: MS Windows, MS Office suite, and nutrition analysis software.
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