Dr. Nivedita Pavithran

Bri. Dr Nivedita is a professional with over two decades of clinical expertise as a nutritional specialist and dietician. She brings a wealth of experience from her 21 years at Amrita Hospital, Kochi, coupled with 8 years of academic tenure since 2015. With a distinguished educational background, she specializes in Endocrinology, Paediatric Neurology, and Obesity. Bri. Dr Nivedita is particularly renowned for her pioneering work in Bariatric Nutrition and Ketogenic diet therapies, having introduced Ketogenic diet as a treatment for childhood epilepsy in the state since 2010, making her a leading figure in innovative nutritional approaches.

• Ketogenic diet for treating childhood epilepsy
• Dietary management for Inborn Errors of metabolism and non-communicable diseases.
• Tribal Nutrition program: identifying and treating malnutrition of the tribal population

• PhD from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi
• M.Sc Clinical Nutrition from Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition from Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai

• Malayalam 
• English 
• Hindi 
• Tamil 

• Won Best Paper award in ECON (Epilepsy conference) in 2015 held at Chennai for the paper titled “Efficacy, Acceptability and Outcome of Ketogenic diet in Severe Refractory Status Epilepticus of Febrile infection related epilepsy syndrome”.
• An abstract titled “Efficacy, Acceptability and Tolerability of Low Glycemic Index Diet in South Indian Children with Refractory Epilepsy” was awarded as Best Abstract Contribution at the 32nd International Epilepsy Congress at Barcelona, August 2017 Spain 
• Won Best paper award in 11th AICNU (Apollo International Clinical Nutrition Update) held at Indore on 21st and 22nd September 2019 for the paper titled “Glycemic and Lipemic reduction with low GI preparations of Kerala cuisine in South Indians with type 2 diabetes.”
• Won Best paper award in 2nd Amrita International Public Health Conference-2019 in collaboration with Harvard Global Health Institute held at AIMS, Kochi on 25th and 26th November 2019 for the paper titled “The Effect of Low GI Diet preparations of Kerala cuisine on glycemic and cardiometabolic biomarkers in type 2 diabetes.