May Fouad Nassar is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. In the field of community service and development, she played a central role in many governmental projects aiming at the welfare of Egyptian children. She is specialised in clinical nutrition with following up on clinical cases as well as teaching medical students, nurses, house officers and residents. Most recently, she has achieved international reputation and acknowledgement through several distinguished publications and has been awarded the Nation’s prize for young researchers in 2006 and Ain Shams University prize for the best international publication in 2007 and 2008.