Post-Doctoral Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Hila Zelicha, RD, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Human Nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a Registered Dietitian, and an Associate Editor of Nutrition Journal. Dr. Zelicha received her MSc and PhD in Epidemiology, where her research focused on the effects of dietary interventions on visceral adiposity, metabolomics, and inflammation. She played a key scientific role in the landmark CENTRAL and DIRECT PLUS randomized controlled trials, investigating the impact of nutrition on obesity and cardiometabolic health.
At UCLA, Dr. Zelicha leads and collaborates on clinical nutrition trials examining precision nutrition, obesity, diabetes prevention, bariatric surgery outcomes, and the use of real-world evidence to improve metabolic health. Her research integrates clinical trials, advanced imaging, and large-scale data analytics to better understand individual responses to dietary interventions and to develop personalized nutrition strategies for chronic disease prevention and treatment.