Ahlam Badreldin El Shikieri has completed her PhD in Clinical Nutrition from Queen Margaret University, Scotland, UK, an MBA from Leicester University, UK and a Postgraduate Diploma in Community Nutrition from Queen Margaret University, UK. She is a registered Consultant Clinical Nutritionist, a Certified Public Health Nutritionist and an Associate Professor currently working in Saudi Arabia as the Head of the Scientific Research and Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia. She served as an invited speaker at several workshops and conferences in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Germany and Taiwan. She supervised several research projects for students both at Master and PhD levels and acted as an external examiner for postgraduate thesis at Durban University, South Africa. Her research interests include nutritional status of cancer patients, cardiovascular disease risk factors, malnourished hospitalized patients and many other topics related to clinical and public health nutrition. She teaches various courses related to nutrition, clinical nutrition and community nutrition at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. These include courses such as Nutrition Care Process, Enteral and Parenteral courses, Research Methodology and Community nutrition. She is a member of several associations and societies including the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and IAAND (a Research Coordinator), Society of Nutrition Education and Behaviour (NEED, Nutrition Education Evidence database, Coordinator), British Nutrition Society, World Public Health Nutrition Association, American Society of Nutrition and the International Society for the Study of fatty acids and lipids. She is a reviewer for various journals including the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior and has acted as an author for more than 20 published research papers and newsletter articles.