Ms Kala ADAIKAN

Senior Principal Dietitian,
Singapore General Hospital

• Speaker, Diabetes Symposium 

Ms Kala Adaikan is a Senior Principal Dietitian with the Department of Dietetics, at Singapore General Hospital. She earned her  Bachelor’s degree with Honours in Nutrition and Dietetics from King’s College, University of London; and her Masters in Diabetes from Warwick University, United Kingdom. Her clinical responsibilities include provision of medical nutrition therapy to patients with type 1 as well as type 2 diabetes. She has special interest in the advanced nutrition management of young adults with diabetes requiring intensive insulin management and insulin pump therapy. An accredited Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating (DAFNE) facilitator and trainer, Kala is part of the pioneering multidisciplinary team and first centre in Asia, to offer and conduct the inaugural DAFNE course in Singapore. Kala continues to perform her role as lead Dietitian in both running the programme and training fellow DAFNE-accredited Dietitians.

On the education front, as the diabetes team lead for Dietetics, Kala ensures continual training and assessment for her team members. She also provides diabetes nutrition education to dietitians and other healthcare professionals. She is also a clinical educator for undergraduate dietetic training. Kala has also authored the medical nutrition therapy component of the Singapore Ministry of Health Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diabetes, 2014.