Registered Dietitian III, CDCES, DipACLM
Kaiser Permanante
San Jose, California, United States
Neelam Singh, MS, RDN, CDCES, DipACLM, is an Outpatient Registered Dietitian III and Lifestyle Medicine practitioner at Kaiser Permanente in San Jose, California, specializing in pediatric obesity, family-centered lifestyle interventions, and cardiometabolic risk reduction across pediatric and adult populations. Her work focuses on translating Food-as-Medicine principles into scalable clinical programs that support sustainable behavior change for children, families, and adults living with or at risk for chronic disease.
At Kaiser Permanente, Neelam provides outpatient medical nutrition therapy for conditions including obesity, prediabetes, diabetes, dyslipidemia, and gastrointestinal disorders. She serves as the registered dietitian within Kaiser’s HEAL Pediatric (ages 3–18) and contributes to HEAL2Thrive, the adult Lifestyle Medicine program. Within these interdisciplinary programs, she developed the majority of nutrition education sessions for HEAL4Families and HEAL Academy, delivers hands-on culinary skill-building workshops, and provides both individual counseling and structured group-based care alongside physicians, psychologists, physical therapists, and health educators. Her culinary education work emphasizes practical plant-forward meal preparation, fiber-rich dietary patterns, and culturally adaptable cooking strategies that improve food literacy and support long-term cardiometabolic health outcomes. 🍲🌱
Neelam also co-leads Nourish 4 Life, a six-session nutrition education curriculum delivered in both virtual and in-person formats. Through Kaiser Permanente’s Health Education Department, she teaches South Asian Heart Health and Lifestyle Medicine classes supporting culturally tailored cardiometabolic prevention programming. Her curriculum contributions include the development of adaptable diabetes plate education tools and practical label-reading and fiber-first glycemic stability frameworks designed for real-world clinical use.
Prior to her current role, Neelam served as a Clinical Registered Dietitian at Good Samaritan Hospital (San Jose), where she provided medical nutrition therapy across oncology, cardiovascular, renal, hepatic, and gastrointestinal conditions and managed enteral and total parenteral nutrition support as part of inpatient interdisciplinary care. She founded and led the hospital’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Nutrition Program and served as a preceptor for dietetic interns.
Earlier in her career, she delivered the CDC-recognized National Diabetes Prevention Program at Providence Hospital (Oregon) and provided nutrition care in sub-acute and long-term care settings at Vasona Creek Healthcare. Before practicing in the United States, she worked as a Clinical Dietitian at Fortis Hospital and Manipal Hospital in Bangalore, India, where she provided inpatient and outpatient nutrition therapy for metabolic and cardiovascular conditions and contributed to national primary-care prevention initiatives, corporate wellness programs, and community-based nutrition education for older adults. During this period, she authored Nutrition Science and Food Technology.
Neelam holds a Master of Science in Food and Nutrition from Karnataka State Open University, a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics from Oregon State University, and completed her Dietetic Internship at California State University, San Bernardino. She is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist licensed in California and Illinois, a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES), a Diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (DipACLM), a CDC-certified Lifestyle Health Coach, and a Monash University–certified Low-FODMAP Dietitian.
Her areas of expertise include pediatric obesity, family-centered Lifestyle Medicine, metabolic health intervention, culturally tailored cardiometabolic care, enteral nutrition support, culinary skill-building education, and behavior-change counseling.
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Sunday, November 8, 2026
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