Achievements

Dr Mashal's Achievements

1) Dr Rima Mashal has been working on analyzing trans fatty acids and acrylamide contents of locally produced foods in Jordan and exploring the association of their dietary and serum levels to obesity and associated chronic diseases among children and adults. Dr. Rima Mashal is a member of the Jordanian Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) Technical Committee for the establishment of “Guidelines for the use of trans fats and partially hydrogenated oils in the food manufacturing for 2024”

She has received an invitation and participated in a special committee at the Jordanian Food and Drug Administration to establish guidelines for the use of trans fats and partially hydrogenated oils in food manufacturing”

2) Dr. Rima H Mashal Representing the University of Jordan in the “National technical meeting for dietary exposure estimation held in Amman in January, 2020 by the FAO/INTAKE: Technical assistance and capacity building for dietary data collection, analysis and use.

3) Dr. Rima Mashal has been appointed to serve as an Elsevier reviewer for the “Journal of King Saud University: Science”

4) Dr. Rima Mashal has been appointed to serve as a peer reviewer for the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND).AJFAND

5) Dr. Rima Mashal invited to submit a review article to JJAS Jordan’s Centenary Special issue entitled “Trans Fats: A Review of Their Sources, Consumption, Health Implications, International and National Policies and Regulations”

6) Some highlighted research in the area of trans fat and its association with health and obesity:

Mashal, R. H. (2021). Trans Fats: A Review of Their Sources, Consumption, Health Implications, International and National Policies and Regulations. Jordan Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 17(3), 225-241.
Tasneem Al-Jarajreh and Rima Mashal (2017). Associations among serum and dietary intake of trans fatty acids, insulin resistance, and adiposity in selected Jordanian school children in Al-Karak, Jordan, M.Sc. thesis, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Rima H. Mashal, Ayman Oudeh, Khalid M. Al-Ismail, Khaled A. Abu-Hammour and Hayder A. Al-Domi. (2012) Association of Dietary Intake of Trans Fatty Acids and Coronary Heart Disease Risk in Jordanian Subjects. Pakistan Journal of Nutrition11 (5): 423-433, 2012 ISSN 1680-5194.
Mashal, R., Al-Ismail, K., Al-Domi, H., & Al-Mousa, T. (2011). Variability in trans fatty acid content of selected local and imported foods in Jordan. Rivista Italiana Delle Sostanze Grasse, 89, 193-200.

Dr Hammad's Achievements

1) Dr. Shatha Hammad has completed three clinical trials regarding obesity-related complications:

A Comparison of a Pulse-Based Diet and the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Diet on Reproductive and Metabolic Parameters in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

Comparison of the effect of mediumchain fatty acids and long-chain fatty acids on postprandial appetite and lipemia: a randomised crossover trial

Effects of Phytosterol Supplementation on Serum Lipid Profile, Liver Enzymes, Insulin, Adiponectin, and Inflammatory Status in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

2) Dr Shatha Hammad is running an additional clinical trial related to insulin resistance entitled: The influence of daily honey consumption on insulin resistance in obese women with insulin resistance

3) Dr Shatha Hammad has several publications related to obesity-related complications and precision nutrition:

Jadallah, R., Hammad, S., (2024) Comparison of the Effect of Medium-chain Fatty Acids and Long-chain Fatty Acids on Postprandial Appetite and Lipemia: A Randomized Crossover Trial. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health 7(2): e001029.
David M Mutch, Dana E Lowry, Michael Roth, Jyoti Sihag, Hammad SS, Carla G Taylor, Peter Zahradka, Philip W Connelly, Sheila G West, Kate Bowen, Penny M Kris-Etherton, Benoît Lamarche, Patrick Couture, Valérie Guay, David Ja Jenkins, Peter Eck, Peter Jh Jones (2022) Polymorphisms in the stearoyl-CoA desaturase gene modify blood glucose response to dietary oils varying in monounsaturated fatty acid content in adults with obesity. Br J Nutr. 8:1-10.doi: 10.1017/S0007114521001264.
Hammad SS, Jyoti Sihag, Xiang Chen, Peter Eck, Philip W Connelly, Benoît Lamarche, Patrick Couture, Kate J Bowen, Sheila G West, Penny M Kris-Etherton, Carla Taylor, Peter Zahradka, David J A Jenkins, Peter J H Jones. (2021) Polymorphisms in IRS1 and FABP1 modify insulin resistance in response to fatty acid composition in non-diabetic subjects with abdominal obesity. Canadian Journal of Naturopathic Medicine;1(3):65-89
Hammad SS, Eck P, Sihag J, Chen X, Connelly PW, Lamarche B, Couture P, Guay V, Maltais-Giguère J, West SG, Kris-Etherton PM, Bowen KJ, Jenkins DJA, Taylor CG, Perera D, Wilson A, Castillo S, Zahradka P, Jones PJH (2019) Common variants in lipid metabolism–related genes associate with fat mass changes in response to dietary monounsaturated fatty acids.JN. 149(10):1749-1756we

Dr Albakri's Achievements

1) Dr. Asma'a Albakri has received support worth 26,712 JD from the National Center for Research and Development and the Deanship of Scientific Research at the University of Jordan for her project entitled

“The effect of co-delivery of colchicine and curcumin nanoparticles on atherosclerosis progression in diabetic mice”

2) Dr. Asma'a Albakri has received support worth 20,000 JD from the Deanship of Scientific Research at the University of Jordan for her project entitled

“Effect of Curcumin and Colchicine nanoparticles on atherosclerosis progression in mice”

Further:

We have accomplished several researches concerning the relationship between obesity and nutrition

We have introduced our work at several conferences and published our work in high-rank peer-reviewed journals

We have several collaborations

We aim to achieve the best in this field

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