Assistant Professor Nutrition-Dietetics
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Strovolos, Nicosia
– Cyprus
Elena Philippou PhD, RD, FHEA
Dr Elena Philippou is an Assistant Professor in Nutrition-Dietetics at the University of Nicosia and a Visiting Lecturer in Nutritional Sciences at King's College London, UK. She holds a BSc in Nutrition (King’s College London), a PgDip in Dietetics (King’s College London) and a PhD in Dietetics (Imperial College London) focusing on the role of the dietary glycaemic index (GI) in weight maintenance and cardiovascular disease prevention. Dr Philippou is mainly interested in studying how diet can prevent degenerative disease, and more specifically, the effects of Mediterranean diet and carbohydrate manipulation on cognitive function and cardiometabolic factors aiming to identify dietary factors that can prevent disease and/or improve outcomes. Her research is published in International peer-reviewed journals and she is the editor of a book titled: ‘The Glycemic Index’ (CRC Press, USA (2018). She is currently collaborating with the Institute of Neurology and Genetics for the validation of a food frequency questionnaire to evaluate the diet of Cypriot adults, with the University College London’s Medical Research Council to investigate the dietary factors and cognitive function and the Centre for Applied Neuroscience at the University of Cyprus to investigate metabolic factors and diet associations with cognition. She is also an active member of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Neurodegenerative Diseases Networking Group. She practices as a clinical dietitian advising adults and children on diet-related issues.
Wednesday, November 6
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Friday, November 8
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM