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Dr Blecenda Miranda Varona is the Founder of the Asian Institute of Lifestyle Medicine and a Doctor in Public Health. She graduated from Adventist University of the Philippines, Cum Laude. She was also an adjunct professor in the College of Health in Adventist University of the Philippines from 2007-2011.

Zenaida Velasco, RND, MAP is the current National President of the Nutritionist-Dietitians' Association of the Philippines and the President of Nutrition and Emotion Wellness Center. For 31 years, she was a faculty member of the University of Santo Tomas' Department of Nutrition and Dietetics. Ms. Velasco has manifested leadership and excellence in different nutrition, health, and...

Ma. Eloisa Estipona Villaraza is a  Nutrition Consultant at the MyHOSPITAL: Telemed Healthcare Services https://myhospital.ph/ Her pioneering leadership in the field of  Clinical Nutrition practice for  38 years and counting,  paved  the way to various patient referrals for  Medical Nutrition Therapy of Non-Communicable Diseases including Lifestyle Diseases of both Pediatric , Adult patients including Geriatric patients...

Ma. Jenee C. Virtudazo is an Assistant Professor I of the Nutritional Sciences Division of the Institute of Human Nutrition and Food, College of Human Ecology of the University of the Philippines at Los Baňos. She was a former Nutritionist-Dietitian V of the Clinical Nutrition Division of the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital. She is a clinical dietitian with additional training in diabetes education and public health nutrition. She finished her Master of Public Health from the College of Public Health of the University of the Philippines Manila. She is also an Associate Diabetes Educator of the Diabetes Center (formerly the Philippine College of Diabetes Education Foundation, Inc.). Her field of expertise is around the area of clinical nutrition, pediatric nutrition and diabetes education. Her academic, service, and training expertise include nutritional assessment and screening, nutrition counseling, dietary calculation and translation of therapeutic diets, public health nutrition and nutrition education.