Poornima Shankar

About Poornima Shankar

Poornima Shankar is an Associate Group Head for Nutrition, MedInscribe Team at BioQuest Global Ltd, Bangalore. Poornima has a MSc in Nutrition and MS degree In Foods Science from Rutgers University, USA. She is one of very few Registered Dietitians (RD) certified by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics USA residing in India. Her wide range of experience includes medical nutrition therapy where she was responsible for care involving generalized nutrition counselling to managing critical care. Post her MS, she moved to corporate nutrition working at Gerber Foods in the areas of labelling, claim development, competitor benchmarking and marketing support activities as content expert. Poornima has taught advanced Food Science and Nutrition to senior students as an adjunct professor at the City University of New York and Mount Carmel College, Bangalore. After moving to India, she worked at Hindustan Unilever Research Centre, Bangalore for 5 years supporting their corporate agenda and provided nutritional inputs, claims management for their product development and marketing led activities. She led the nutritional composition, positioning and market launches for Quista Pro, Quista DN, Quista Kidz, Quista Adults and Quista Mass Gainer. Poornima has illustrated Suryavamsha and Chandravamsha, two mythological books based on the wisdom of Ancient India. She enjoys sketching, drawing and handicrafts. She is an enthusiast of the Zentangle form of Art. She has illustrated children\'s books as well. & psc=1 Specialties: nutrition, dietetics, weight management, interest in food labeling, regulatory affairs, product development, sensory science, medical writing, research, Zentangle Art, sketching, book illustration

Experience

1. Associate Group Head

   BioQuest Solutions

   Apr 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Rutgers University

  DPD Dietetics, Didactic Program Requirements in Dietetics

  2002 — 2003

• Rutgers University

  MS degree, Food Science

  2007 — 2009

• Maharaja Sayajirao University

  BSc, Foods and Nutrition

  1991 — 1994

• Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, Gujarat

  MSc, Foods and Nutrition

  1994 — 1996

• Saint Elizabeth University

  Dietetic Internship, Dietetics

  2003 — 2004

• Manipal GlobalNxt University

  Management Development Program (MDP, Business/Commerce, General

  2017 — 2018

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Certification, INNOVATION OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: MIT’S APPROACH TO DESIGN THINKING

  2017 — 2017

• Rosary High School, Baroda

  High School