Charubhala ROnco-Nutrition Fellow at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai

Charubhala R is a Fellow in Onco-Nutrition at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, where she is training in nutrition support across every phase of cancer treatment: chemotherapy, radiation and recovery after surgery. Each plan she writes starts from the patient's metabolic profile, their disease and treatment, and what they can manage to eat.

She holds an MSc in Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics from PSG College of Arts and Science, Bharathiar University, and a BSc in Home Science from the Gandhigram Rural Institute. As a certified diabetic educator she also helps people with type 2 diabetes manage it through diet. Before the fellowship she worked as a junior dietitian at Gleneagles HealthCity, Chennai, covering oncology, critical care, endocrinology and gastroenterology.

Charubhala is a life member of IAPEN India, is Good Clinical Practice certified, won first prize in the National Nutri Quiz at ICNC 2026 and was an invited speaker at NSHM Knowledge Campus's 2026 masterclass on diet-based therapy. On DietXP she is the medical reviewer of the Knowledge Hub: every guide is checked by her before it is published.