Harriet Jager-wittenaar PhD, RD

H. Jager-Wittenaar is a Professor (lector) Clinical Malnutrition and Healthy Ageing Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands and senior researcher at the Dept. Of Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Medical Center Groningen. She is co-founder of the PG-SGA/Pt-Global Platform. Moreover, she leads the European Specialist Dietetic Network (ESDN) for Older Adults, an expert committee within the European Federation of Associations of Dietitians (EFAD), and she is a member of the Dutch Dietitians Oncology Group, the Dietitians Working Group on Malnutrition, and the Dutch Platform on Nutritional Assessment.

Her current research program focuses on nutritional assessment, e.g. PG-SGA and imaging techniques to assess body composition, the relationship between malnutrition and frailty, metabolism, and implementation of nutritional risk screening.