Adjunct Professor of Medicine, UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine &
UCLA Department of Biochemistry
Dr Arab has appointments in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research and the Department of Biological Chemistry at UCLA. Prior to moving to California she has served as professor of epidemiology and nutrition in the Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 12 years in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health. In California she founded, as Senior Director and Department Head, Amgen.s Global Epidemiology Department.
Dr. Arab, as Professor and Director, chaired the department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology at the Bundesgesundheitsamt in Berlin for 7 years prior to being recruited to UNC, and worked an additional 7 years at the Heart Disease Research Institute of the University of Heidelberg. During that time she served as a nutrition advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) for 10 years and was the founding director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Nutritional Epidemiology in Berlin. She was the founding North American Editor of the journal Public Health Nutrition, Associate Editor of Nutrition and Cancer and sits on numerous other editorial boards.
At UNC Dr Arab was the program director for nutritional epidemiology and leader of a training program and NCI-sponsored training grant in that field. She is served as the director of the Clinical Nutrition Research Core for Nutritional Epidemiology at UNC. Dr Arab has also served as a member on multiple NIH study sections in various capacities including permanent member. Having served on the National Academy of Science committees that developed the most recent dietary recommendations, she is particularly interested in seeing nutritional knowledge widely implemented in disease prevention across populations, and enhancing the nutritional knowledge of medical graduates. Director, Training Grant On The Nutritional Biochemistry and Epidemiology of Carcinogenesis Director, Nutritional Epidemiology Core of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Head of the Nurtritional Epidemiology Program in the Epidemiology Department Former Member National Academy of Science NRC Committee On The Toxicological Effect of Methylmercury
