Subhashini Naorem, Certified Diabetic Educator, has enjoyed a long and successful innings in the social development sector (NGOs) and hospitals with over twenty years of work experience.
She has so far, worked in varying capacities of responsibility as Relationship Officer, Program Secretary and Medical Social Worker.
A qualified B.Sc. (Hons.) Nursing from the Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing, New Delhi, Subhashini is also equipped with a post graduate MSW degree from the prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and specializes as a medical and psychiatric social worker. She has recently completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Nutrition & Dietetic from Symbiosis University, Pune.
A good counselor with a gift for administration and an in-built target orientation, she has used her ability to appreciate and absorb different viewpoints to form support groups for ‘Better Quality of Life’ for patients suffering from life threatening illnesses. The Thalassemia Support Group she started at Ruby Hall Clinic in April 2007 continues to run successfully, even as members help each other face the challenge on hand with dignity and positivity.
Similarly, she has carried out detailed group research titled “A comparative study to assess the attitude of the relatives of the patients with selective chronic illness and mental illness”in select hospitals in New Delhi.
Apart from all this, her extensive volunteer work includes: cyclone relief work in Orissa in December 1999; active involvement in the Pulse Polio Immunization Program between 1995-99 in New Delhi; participation in State-level NSS Trainers’ Training Program on HIV/AIDS education; participation in the poster competition “Helping patient to improve the Quality of Life with Maintenance Haemodialysis” during the 3rd Annual Conference of Renal Social Workers at Aurangabad in 2012, for which her entry bagged the prize.
She is a member of the Thalassemia Society of India, as well as the Association of Renal Social Workers.
