Melissa Mathias has spent more than a decade working in clinical nutrition, most of it inside hospitals where the questions this site covers — GLP-1 therapy, diabetes care, weight management — are day-to-day clinical reality rather than internet debate. She earned her BSc in Dietetics in Mumbai in 2011, followed it with a postgraduate degree in Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics in 2014, and later completed a PGDip in Medical Leadership. In 2018 she was appointed Chief Dietitian at a leading Dubai hospital, and she currently practices at King's College Hospital Dubai (Park Heights Clinics).
She is a Registered Dietitian licensed by both the Indian Dietetic Association and the Dubai Health Authority, a Certified Diabetes Educator, and a member of the Association of Diabetes Educators and the Indian Dietetic Association. She consults in English and Hindi.
Clinical specialties
- Diabetes mellitus — medical nutrition therapy and structured diabetes education
- Weight management — including dietary management before and after bariatric surgery
- Metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease — nutrition strategies for blood sugar, lipids, and blood pressure
- Gastrointestinal disorders — diet planning around digestive conditions
- Critical care nutrition — enteral and parenteral (tube and IV) feeding for hospitalized patients
Her clinical philosophy is personalized, sustainable, and evidence-based dietary advice — plans built around what a patient can actually keep doing, backed by what the research actually shows.
Role at this site
Melissa is the credited author for the rankings, cost guides, brand reviews, and educational articles published on 10BestWeightLossMeds. Pages here are prepared using research and drafting tools — including AI software — and are produced under her direction; the standards each page must meet before publishing are set out in our editorial policy. What you read on this site is educational material about weight loss medications and the companies that sell them. It is not clinical advice from Melissa to you, and she cannot evaluate or advise individual readers through this website.
Credentials at a glance
- BSc in Dietetics — Mumbai, 2011
- Postgraduate degree in Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics — 2014
- PGDip in Medical Leadership
- Registered Dietitian — licensed by the Indian Dietetic Association (IDA) and the Dubai Health Authority (DHA)
- Certified Diabetes Educator; member, Association of Diabetes Educators and Indian Dietetic Association
- Chief Dietitian at a leading Dubai hospital since 2018; currently at King's College Hospital Dubai (Park Heights Clinics)
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