Reema Fayez Tayyem
Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics
Jacobs Hanson and Co?LLC
Greece
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.
Research Interest
Cancer, Obesity and Diabetes
