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Dhruti Patel is a Family and Consumer Sciences Educator who join ed the University of Maryland Extension in 2012. Her primary teaching area s are nutrition\, health\, wellness\, food safety &\; preservation\, an d stress. She serves Anne Arundel and Prince George's counties in Maryland . In her role as an educator\, she applies research-based approaches to id entify the nutrition and health needs in the community\, develops educatio nal programs\, and assesses the outcomes. She successfully developed progr ams such as senior nutrition\, chronic diseases management programs\, work site wellness\, mindfulness programs\, and \;food preservation\, to ad dress the local community needs. Her current programmatic and research foc us is on creating a well-rounded nutrition/health-based program that addre sses overall well-being\, using intersectional approaches with nutrition\, health\, and mental wellbeing.
\nShe successfully completed her MS in Nutritional Sciences from Texas Tech University\, Lubbock\, TX (2011). She received her Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition\, Dietetics\, and Hospitality Management from IHM\, Mumbai (India)\, and a Bachelor's d egree in Food and Nutrition from B.M.N. College of Home Sciences (India). She possesses 15 years of clinical\, community\, and education-based knowl edge in the field of nutrition. \;She authored 23 manuscripts on an ar ray of nutrition and wellness topics and presented over 32 conference proc eedings on international\, national\, and state levels. She was past presi dent of the Maryland Chapter of the National Association of the Family and Consumer Sciences and currently chairing the Nutrition and wellness team within the University of Maryland Extension under the Family and Consumer Sciences program area.
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