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DR. Hemalatha R | DR. Raja Sriswan Mamidi
ICMR - National Institute of NutritionDr.Hemalathagraduated (MBBS) and obtained an MD from Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences, Andhra Pradesh. Currently she is the Director of ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad. Sheled the seminal work on Nutrient requirements- the RDAs and EARs for Indians; for the first time the Nutrient recommendations include the Estimated Average Requirements (EAR) and also the Tolerable Upper Limits (TUL) of nutrients alongside RDAs. The fortification strategies, food labelling, supplementation programs are based on these recommendations. She also spearheaded ‘My Plate for the Day’ which provides food-based guidelines for meeting micro and macronutrient requirements to prevent undernutrition and NCDs. As part of the Poshan Abhiyan initiative she developed 14 E-learning modules aimed at empowering adolescents, young adults, Anganwadi teachers, ASHA workers and the general public.Sheis also serving as the President of the Nutrition Society of India and as the Executive Council Member of the Federation of Asian Nutrition Societies (FANS).
Dr. M. Raja Sriswan, joined ICMR -National Institute of Nutrition as a senior research fellow (SRF) in 2008. As an SRF, he worked in the Hyderabad Dexa study under Dr. Hannah Kuper (London school of hygiene and tropical medicine, United Kingdom) and Dr. K.V Radhakrishna (then a senior scientist in the Clinical Division, NIN). He has also been the in charge medical officer for Nutrition ward (run by ICMR-NIN) at Niloufer hospital, a tertiary care hospital in Hyderabad. He has worked in the area of stunting, severe acute malnutrition, infant and young child feeding practices (IYCF) and cardiovascular diseases. His interests also include reproducible research based on R Programming software and dietary collection tools. He also did an internship at IIT-Kharagpur in 2016 for mobile and web based dietary collection tools.
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DR. Hemalatha R | DR. Raja Sriswan Mamidi