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Freelance Expert Scientific and Medical Writer specializing in diabetes, public health, maternal health

Profile Summary

Dr. Bhavadharini is a freelance scientific and medical writer with over 10 years’ experience in diabetes research and 30 scientific publications to her credit. Throughout her PhD and postdoctoral training, Bhava has led teams of research staff. As part of the International Diabetes Federation project on gestational diabetes, she liaised with healthcare professionals, and set up proactive systems to monitor population groups with diabetes. This field of research is a great passion of hers, as demonstrated by study follow-up rates of up to 96% even among women with gestational diabetes who are known to abandon follow up after delivery to care for their newborn. When Bhava isn’t leading an international diabetes research project, she’d produce high-quality medical and scientific communications materials in diabetes and related metabolic conditions. Deliverables include manuscripts, review articles, editorials for scientific journals, white papers, conference abstracts and posters, and slide decks. To engage Bhava in an upcoming diabetes project, contact her at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with some preliminary details and she’ll respond as soon as possible.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Diabetes
• ★ Medical Writing
• ★ Research Summaries & Abstracts
• ☆ Endocrinology
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Textbook Content Writing
• ☆ Science Communication

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Medical Writing

Research Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Senior Consultant

ICON, Plc

October 2021 - November 2022

Diabetes Action Canada Fellowship

Women's College Research Institute

September 2019 - August 2021

Postdoctoral Fellow - Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases

McMaster University

December 2017 - August 2019

Education

PhD

University of Madras

May 2012 - May 2017

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Bhavadharini Balaji, Jiayue Yu, Maria Tinajero, Sarah Jarvis, Tauseef Khan, Sudha Vasudevan, Viren Ranawana, Amudha Poobalan, Shilpa Bhupathiraju, Qi Sun, et al.(2022). White rice, brown rice and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis . BMJ Open. 12. (9). p. e065426. {BMJ}

B. Bhavadharini, R. M. Anjana, M. Deepa, R. Pradeepa, R. Uma, P. Saravanan, Viswanathan Mohan(2022). Association between number of abnormal glucose values and severity of fasting plasma glucose in IADPSG criteria and maternal outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus . Acta Diabetologica. 59. (3). p. 349--357. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Balaji Bhavadharini, Wesley Hannah, Hannah Beks, Mohan Deepa, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Ram Uma, Erik Martin, Kevin McNamara, Vincent Versace, Ponnusamy Saravanan, et al.(2022). Global burden of early pregnancy gestational diabetes mellitus (eGDM): A systematic review . Acta Diabetologica. 59. (3). p. 403--427. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Mohan V, Bhavadharini B, Mukhopadhyay S, Nallaperumal S, Tiwaskar M, Anjana RM, Unnikrishnan R (2021). Diabetes in Pre-independence India: Rediscovering a Forgotten Era. The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India.

Bhavadharini Balaji (2021). Practice patterns among healthcare professionals for screening, diagnosis, and management of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in selected countries of Asia, Africa, and Middle East . Journal of Diabetology.

Bhavadharini Balaji (2021). Survey of diabetologists and obstetricians’ practice patterns related to care for gestational diabetes mellitus during the COVID-19 pandemic in India .

Balaji Bhavadharini, Viswanathan Mohan, Mahshid Dehghan, Sumathy Rangarajan, Sumathi Swaminathan, Annika Rosengren, Andreas Wielgosz, Alvaro Avezum, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Fernando Lanas, et al.(2020). White Rice Intake and Incident Diabetes: A Study of 132,373 Participants in 21 Countries . Diabetes Care. 43. (11). p. 2643--2650. American Diabetes Association

Balaji Bhavadharini, Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Sumathy Rangarajan, Patrick Sheridan, Viswanathan Mohan, Romaina Iqbal, Rajeev Gupta, Scott Lear, Edelweiss Wentzel-Viljoen, et al.(2020). Association of dairy consumption with metabolic syndrome, hypertension and diabetes in 147 812 individuals from 21 countries . BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care. 8. (1). p. e000826. {BMJ}

Bhavadharini Balaji, Anjana Ranjit Mohan, Pradeepa Rajendra, Deepa Mohan, Uma Ram, Mohan Viswanathan(2019). Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Postpartum Follow-Up Testing: Challenges and Solutions . Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 43. (8). p. 641--646. Elsevier {BV}

Balaji Bhavadharini, Ram Uma, Harish Ranjani, Manni Mohanraj Mahalakshmi, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Ranjit Unnikrishnan, Arivudainambi Kayal, Belma Malanda, Anne Belton, Viswanathan Mohan(2017). Pregnancy outcome of gestational diabetes mellitus using a structured model of care : WINGS project (WINGS-10) . Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research. 43. (3). p. 468--475. Wiley

Balaji Bhavadharini, Viswanathan Mohan, RanjitMohan Anjana, Mohan Deepa, Gopal Jayashree, Subramanyam Nrutya, Mahadevan Shobana, Belma Malanda, Arivudainambi Kayal, Anne Belton, et al.(2017). Gestational weight gain and pregnancy outcomes in relation to body mass index in Asian Indian women . Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism. 21. (4). p. 588. Medknow

Bhavadharini Balaji Association of whole grains, dairy and dietary fibre with neonatal outcomes in women with gestational diabetes mellitus: The WINGS project (WINGS – 12) .

Bhavadharini Balaji Gestational diabetes mellitus The silent epidemic .

BOOK CHAPTER

Bhavadharini Balaji Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Screening Diagnosis, and Management .