About Dr. Poornima Shankar

Poornima Shankar is a nutritionist with a wide range of experience from generalized nutrition counseling to providing critical care nutrition in hospitals. She has provided medical nutrition therapy at Raritan Bay Medical Centre, New Jersey for about 6 years. She has worked in corporate nutrition at Gerber Foods (then Novartis), in the areas of claim development and substantiation, competitor benchmarking and writing PR articles in nutrition for print and electronic media. She is also, well versed in brand development support, brand building activities, food labeling, product development and regulatory affairs. Poornima has taught Food Sciences and nutrition to senior students as an adjunct professor at the City University of New York and Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. She is currently working as a Nutritionist at Hindustan Unilever Research Centre, Bangalore supporting their corporate agenda and their food brands such as Brook Bond, Lipton, Knorr, Kissan and Kwality Walls. She also broadly supports various nutrition related projects throughout the Asia region. Poornima is one of very few Registered Dietitians certified by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Formerly American Dietetic Association, USA) residing in India.

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nutrition, dietetics, weight management, interest in food labeling, regulatory affairs, product development, sensory science