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EDELINA G. NAVARRETTE, RND

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Experience

2000-present
Nutrition Specialty Clinic-St Luke’s Medical Center

June 2005-present
Health Quest Institute for Integrative Medicine

Private Nutrition Consultant
Provides extensive Medical Nutrition Therapy to hospitalize and outpatients with diabetes,heart diseases,kidney failure, and other medical cases which need special diet.
Provides Home Care Nutrition for the critically ill home patients
Provides Weight Reduction Management to overweight and obese patients.
Provides individualized diet and meal plan.
Provides comprehensive nutritional education to improve patient compliance.
Phones up patients to check compliance.

Medical Nutrition Specialist
Abbott Laboratories, Philippines
Dec 1996 – 2000

Staff Dietitian promoted to Dietitian II
National Kidney and Transplant Institute
Jan 1993 - 1996

Staff Dietitian
St. Luke’s Medical Center
July-Dec 1992

Education

B.S. Nutrition and Dietetics
Santo Tomas University Sampaloc, Manila
1986–1992

Masters for Business Administration, Undergraduate
Santo Tomas University Sampaloc, Manila
1993

Masters in Clinical Nutrition
Philippine Women’s University
2005 to present

Fellowship/Specialization Training

1.DIABETES

DIABETES CAMP

Type 1 Diabetes
Jardin ni Lola, Bataan – March 2000
Jardin ni Lola, Bataan – March 2001
Jardin ni Lola, Bataan – March 2002
Jardin ni Lola, Bataan – March 2003
Jardin ni Lola, Bataan – March 2004
Jardin ni Lola, Bataan – March 2005

Type 2 Diabetes
Jardin ni Lola, Bataan – February 2003
Jardin ni Lola, Bataan – February 2004
Jardin ni Lola, Bataan – February 2005

DIABETES LAY LECTURE
Caloocan Diabetes Club, May 5 and 12, 2004
Numerous lectures done from 2002-2005

DIABETES MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY

Association of Diabetes Nurse Educators of the Philippines
ISDFI Lecture Room, UERM, Sta. Mesa, QC – March 2002
ISDFI Lecture Room, UERM, Sta. Mesa, QC – March 13, 2003
ISDFI Lecture Room, UERM, Sta. Mesa, QC – March 16-17, 2004
ISDFI Lecture Room, UERM, Sta. Mesa, QC – April 18, 2005

Institute on the Studies of Diabetes Foundation of the Philippines
ISDFI Lecture Room, UERM, Sta. Mesa, QC – November 2002
ISDFI Lecture Room, UERM, Sta. Mesa, QC – November 2004
ISDFI Lecture Room, UERM, Sta. Mesa, QC – May 27, 2005
ISDFI Lecture Room, UERM, Sta. Mesa, QC – May 31, 2005
ISDFI Lecture Room, UERM, Sta. Mesa, QC – June 3, 2005

Philippine Society of Diabetologists
PSD Advanced Diabetes Workshop “Clinical Practice Recommendations”– July 22, 2005
PSD Advance Diabetes Workshop “Clinical Practice Recommendations” – November 11, 2005

HOW TO SET UP A DIABETES CLINIC - MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY

Provincial Health Office, Province of Iloilo, April 18-19, 2002
The Manila Health Department, July 16-18, 2002
The Association of Municipal Health Officers of the Phil - Cebu Chapter, August 13-14, 2002
The Association of Municipal Health Officers of the Phil - Butuan Chapter, September 18-19, 2002
The Association of Municipal Health Officers of the Phil - Batangas Chapter, September 25-26, 2002

PRACTICAL DIABETES NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT

1st Postgraduate Course, Phi. College of Physicians and ISDFI South Luzon Chapter, Splash Mountain Resort, Los Banos, Laguna – October 14, 2004
Consortium of Government Diabetes Clinics Bicol Medical Center – March 11, 2005
Philippine Medical Association Batangas Chapter – September 22, 2005

2. NUTRITION SUPPORT

NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT
Total Nutrition Therapy Program for Philippine Heart Center, Punta Fuego, Batangas – August 3-5, 2005
Total Nutrition Therapy Program for Surgical Doctors, Cebu City – April 28-29, 2005
Total Nutrition Therapy Program for Surgical Doctors, Bacolod City – May 27, 2004

Enteral Feeding of Critically Ill Patients
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Philippine Heart Center – March 17, 2005

Updates on Enteral Nutrition
1st PHILSPEN Annual Convention – EDSA Shangri-La Hotel – September 22, 2004

Facilitator, “Interactive Workshop on the Management of a Critically Ill Patient”
Auditorium 1, CHBC, St. Luke’s Medical Center, September 2, 2004

3. COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION

Clinical Dietetics in Private Practice
Institute of Human Nutrition and Food College of Human Ecology, University of the Philippines, Los Banos Laguna – October 20, 2004

Focus Group Discussion on the Validation of Core Competencies for Nutrition-Dietetics Practice of The Technical Committee for Nutrition and Dietetics Education (TCNDE) of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Old Swiss Inn Restaurant, Garden Plaza Hotel, Paco, Manila, September 5, 2003

4. COURSE DIRECTOR IN THE CERTIFICATE COURSE ON MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

University of Santo Tomas College of Education and Nutrition and Dietetics Department – October 16, 2004
University of Santo Tomas College of Education and Nutrition and Dietetics Department – April 2, 2005

5. REVIEW LECTURE FOR LICENSURE EXAMINATION FOR BS NUTRITION AND DIETETICS

Centro Escolar University, May 2005
Centro Escolar University, April 2004
University of the East, May 2004

6. UPDATES ON RENAL DIET

Nutritionist-Dietitians’ Association of the Philippines Quezon Chapter – May 12, 2005
Lay Lecture – Zamboanga Renal Club – July 20, 2005

7. STROKE PREVENTION LAY LECTURE

Auditorium 1, CHBC, St. Luke’s Medical Center, February 2004

8. CO-AUTHORED STROKE PREVENTION LAY LECTURE FOR THE STROKE SOCIETY OF THE PHILIPPINES, NOVEMBER 2003

Current Positions

Treasurer
Philippine Association of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition (PHILSPEN)

Board of Director
Philippine Association of Diabetes Educators (PADE)

Academicals Staff, Education Department
Institute on the Studies of Diabetes Foundation of the Philippines

Camp Dietitian
Rainbow Camp of the Philippines, Inc.

Lecturer
School of Tourism, Family Economics, and Nutrition
Centro Escolar University

Teaching Staff
Far Eastern University