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Lebanese Nahla Hwalla awarded by Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

22-5-2019

Dr. Nahla Hwalla, member of the board of trustees of Rafik Hariri University, won the 2019 medal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, one of the world’s largest organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio. Hwalla, former dean of the faculty of agriculture and food sciences at AUB, will receive the prize during the Food and Nutrition conference held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hwalla has founded and sponsored the first undergraduate program of nutrition sciences in Lebanon and the region and established nutrition as a recognized profession in Lebanon. She also published some 100 international articles in the field and received intensive funding for research from national and international donor institutions. Hwalla was appointed within the team of the World Health Organization Collaboration Center on Nutrition to put in olace guidelines for governments on issues related to nutrition, apart from receiving many national and international prizes in the field. Recalling, that the medal awards are presented each year since 1967 to honor members of the Academy who have shown dedication to the high standards of nutrition science and profession. (An Nahar, Al Mustaqbal, May 22, 2019)

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