Alice H. Lichtenstein

Alice Hinda Lichtenstein is an American professor and researcher in nutrition and heart disease. She is an expert on cardiovascular health, and has been recognized for her research on dietary fat. Designated a distinguished university professor, she directs a cardiovascular nutrition laboratory at a USDA center on aging and holds the Stanley N. Gershoff chair in nutrition science and policy at the Friedman School of Nutrition, Tufts University in downtown Boston.

Lichtenstein is the primary author of the American Heart Association's dietary guidance for cardiovascular disease risk reduction. Lichtenstein has served on the Food and Nutrition Board, multiple committees of the National Academy of Sciences, and the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. In 2006, ''Shape'' magazine named Lichtenstein one of ten "Women Who Shaped the World". In 2019, Tamar Haspel called her a "grande dame of nutrition." Provided by Wikipedia