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Dr. Reema Tayyem

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER - Dr. Reema Tayyem


Dr. Reema Tayyem

Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics
Jordan

BIOGRAPHY:

Professor Reema Tayyem obtained her BSc in biochemistry and MSc and PhD in Human Nutrition from University of Jordan. She got UNESCO-Loreal Fellowship for Young Women in Life Sciences 2005. She performed her postdoc study at UCSD Cancer Center/University of California, San Diego/CA/USA. She was the head of the clinical nutrition department at the Hashemite University for 6 years.  Her focus is on cancer, obesity and diabetes because of the rise in the prevalence of some diet-related cancers, obesity particularly in children and type II diabetes in Jordan and other developing countries and this is considered as one of the health priorities. Prof. Tayyem is one of the pioneers in nutritional sciences in Jordan and Arabic countries. She had been funded from European Union funding programs to open the first pediatric and maternal nutrition clinic in Jordan. She conducted many research funded from outside and inside her country. published more than 55 articles and 5 books in nutrition. Professor Tayyem attended many national, regional and international conferences.

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