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Professor of Nutrition

Dr. Ghada Soliman is a Professor of Nutrition and Director of the Doctoral Program in the Department of Environmental, Occupational and Geospatial Health Sciences at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. She received her medical degree from Cairo University, Egypt and earned her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Arizona, Tucson, with a major in Nutritional Biochemistry and a minor in Immunology and Microbiology. In addition, she completed her Dietetic Internship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and earned her post-doctoral training and fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Atherosclerosis, Lipoprotein Research, and Vascular Biology as well as translational research. Dr. Soliman’s transdisciplinary research portfolio spans precision nutrition, community and public health nutrition, nutritional exposome, metabolomics, cardiometabolic and cancer prevention research, chronic disease prevention, population health, school nutrition, systems biology, and laboratory-based nutrient metabolism. Her research integrates nutrient sensing, nutrigenomic regulation of the mechanistic Target of the Rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway, targeted metabolomics, diet, and exposomics, as well as the use of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) databases to investigate the causal role of mTOR and nutrients in diabetes and obesity, to explain health outcomes, and inform repurposing opportunities of FDA-approved mTOR inhibitors. She has a well-established track record, both in research and teaching, and taught several courses on human nutrition across the life course, community nutrition education, and nutrient metabolism. As an academician, Dr. Soliman served on the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; the University of Nebraska Medical Center; Western Michigan University; and the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor prior to her appointment to CUNY. She has mentored many graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels and is actively engaged in public health nutrition and community service. Dr. Soliman received grant funding from the American Heart Association, NIDDK of the NIH, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation, as well as internal university grants. She serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. In addition, she is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Association for Cancer Research, the American Public Health Association, the Obesity Society, and the American Society for Nutrition. She served an integral role in revising CUNY MPH Public Health Nutrition curriculum, expanding the nutrition academic agenda, and laboratory-based nutrition research and educational opportunities for prospective doctoral students.