PhD candidate
Boston University School of Medicine
I am from the beautiful island of Cyprus! Nutritional science has been my passion since childhood. Growing up around traditional Mediterranean Greek-Cypriot, and seeing the valuable support my dietician offered me from a very young age, led me to study Nutrition and Dietetics in the UK so that I could serve the public through medical nutrition therapies.
I practiced as a clinical dietitian for 2 years but my desire to improve the quality of evidence in the field of nutrition for the prevention of cardiometabolic-related diseases inspired me to advance my research training at a graduate level. I completed a Masters's degree of Science in Nutrition & Metabolism and I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Nutrition and Metabolism Program at Boston University School of Medicine in the US, expecting to graduate in January 2024. My graduate work, published in several nutrition journals, uses epidemiological methods to investigate the role of diet as a modifiable factor in amending the life course progression of cardiometabolic diseases, including obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, using longitudinal cohort and clinical trial data.