Antonia Trichopoulou
Greek nutrition epidemiologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antonia Trichopoulou (Greek: Αντωνία Τριχοπούλου; born 1938) is a nutrition epidemiologist, specialising in the study of the health effects of the Mediterranean diet. She has been called the "mother of the Mediterranean Diet". Trichopoulou is a Professor Emeritus of the School of Medicine of the University of Athens and the President of the Hellenic Health Foundation.[1] She has published more than 900 scientific papers[2] and was president of the Federation of European Nutrition Societies (FENS). For her contributions, she was elected in December 2021 a full member of the Academy of Athens in the Chair of "Medical Sciences: Epidemiology and Public Health".[3][4] In 2003 she was awarded the Golden Cross of Honor by the President of the Greek Republic.[5][6]
Her late husband was Dimitrios Trichopoulos, a cancer epidemiologist.