Dr. Sheela Nambiar MD Obgyn,
Lifestyle Medicine Physician DipLM BSLM
Fitness Consultant NAFC.

Dr. Nambiar graduated from Madras Medical College and as a gold medalist for her MD ObGyn from Manipal University. She is a practicing Obstetrician Gynecologist at Parvathy Medical Center in Ooty, Tamil Nadu, South India.

She is one of the founding members of ISLM and the past Secretary of the organization - 2018-2020

In 1999 she certified as a Fitness & Lifestyle Consultant from NAFC National Association of Fitness Certification, USA and started teaching fitness to groups of women and started using Fitness & Lifestyle as an extension of her medical for ‘preventive care’ for her patients. She founded her Wellness program called Training For Life or TFL in the year 2000. She set up a fitness center in Chennai called the TFL Fitness & Lifestyle Studio in 2007. She implements her TFL program through her hospital in Ooty, her fitness center in Chennai and online.

She trained in Positive Psychology and CBT and uses both as counseling tools for her patients.

She is a certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician through the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine – BSLM. 

Besides her Obgyn practice, through her wellness program, TFL, she treats obesity, PCOS, infertility, depression, musculoskeletal dysfunction and various other chronic lifestyle diseases using Fitness, Lifestyle Medicine and Positive Psychology.

Dr. Nambiar has been a regular contributor to a series of Health and Fitness articles for the national newspaper, The Hindu for over ten years. She also writes regularly for The Rotary News magazine, the Mumbai Mirror, Online forums and her own blog – sheelanambiar.wordpress.com

Dr. Nambiar has authored three books on Fitness and Lifestyle to date.

Her first book, Get Size Wise, Training For Life for the Indian Woman, published by Rupa - June 2013.
Her second book Gain to Lose an Essential Guide to Losing Fat by Gaining Muscle, published by Rupa - Oct 2015
Her latest book - Fit After 40 for a Healthier, Happier, Stronger you, came out in August 2018, published by Hachette.

Dr. Nambiar is a speaker at TEDx, national and international conferences, holds regular workshops for corporates, social organizations like Rotary International and International Women’s Organization – IWA, FICCI, the National classical dance conference- Natya Kala and Natya Vriksha, schools and colleges.

She has been the secretary of the Indian Medical Association, Nilgiris,
She is on the Council of the True Health Initiative,
She is on the Executive committee of the Nilgiri Literary Festival

Website – www.drsheelanambiar.com
Blog – drsheelanambiar.wordpress.com