• Jan 2018 - Present

• Responsible for managing a team of 20+ volunteer Health Coaches in addition to being the lead Health Coach at The South Asian Heart Center, a non-profit community health organization at The El Camino Hospital. • Being a Certified Wellcoach®, continuing to be an expert facilitator of mindset and behavior change that generates sustainable healthy lifestyles, which prevent or treat disease, and foster well-being and thriving. Coached over 100 participants so far with each participant being followed up for an average of one year. • Conducting group workshops on Nutrition and tours on Grocery Shopping as part of nutrition education for program participants with the objective of cultivating dietary practices. • As a coordinator, primary responsibilities include screening, interviewing, hiring, on boarding, training and managing volunteer coaches, ongoing process improvement and data management. • Part of the STOP-D program (based on the Diabetes Prevention Program) – responsibilities include health coaching, on-boarding participants, organizing and coordination of workshops. • Organizing and leading teams at outreach events such as health fairs and conferences. • Recognized as a transformational coach by participants with testimonials and referrals. Show less

• Mar 2017 - Jan 2018

• As a Health Coach, worked with program participants on facilitating adaption of recommended lifestyle changes for reducing risk of heart disease and diabetes. • As a Nutrition Counselor, conducted group Nutrition Workshops and Grocery Store Tours.

Research Student

• Nov 2003 - Apr 2008

• Planned and conducted community-based surveys involving anthropometric measurements, diet & physical activity assessment, dietary interventions and blood collection in urban and rural settings. • Conducted workshops for dissemination of Nutrition Education, reducing Obesity and disease risk by following healthy lifestyle behaviors. • Actively participated in multiple health projects going on in the department related to such as adult and childhood obesity, maternal and fetal health in diverse geographic and socio-economic settings such as modern cities, slums as well as rural villages. • Managed data and conducted Data Analysis using statistical package SPSS. • Conducted Biochemical estimations on ‘Randox Daytona’ a fully automated analyzer. • Measured Resting Energy Expenditure of study subjects using ‘Oxylog’. Show less

Nutrition Consultant

• Jan 2003 - Sep 2003

Worked in the Nutrition & Marketing Division on Nutrition Dissemination to physicians and in school health programs. Worked in the Nutrition & Marketing Division on Nutrition Dissemination to physicians and in school health programs.