Dr. Dona Hileti

Dr Hileti is an Associate Professor of Nutrition and Co-coordinator of the BSc Dietetics programme at European University. She teaches undergraduate Dietetics students and helps to co-ordinate this newly-founded degree course. In parallel, she also maintains her clinical practice in Paediatric Dietetics, alongside Paediatricians, Paediatric Speech Therapists and Clinical Psychologists, advising patients on appropriate therapeutic diets. She has prior experience at Frederick University teaching Nutrition to undergraduate Nursing students. Between 2002-2007, Dr Hileti worked part-time as a HACCP and ISO auditor for the Cyprus Certification company, undertaking audits in food companies and catering establishments. She was also a member of the Board of Directors for both the Cyprus Dietetic Association and the Cyprus Food Scientists and Technologists Association. Prior to her work in Cyprus, Dr Hileti worked in the UK. Between 1996-2002, she worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London as a Senior Paediatric Dietician and at the Institute of Child Health (Wolfson centre), undertaking clinical research projects investigating the impact of gastrostomy on the nutritional, psychosocial and medical status of children with Cerebral Palsy. During this time, she also took part in clinical audits on the lipid abnormalities of children with HIV.

PhD”‘Biological and pharmacokinetic studies on the oral iron chelator 1,2 dimethyl-3-hydroxypyrod-4-one”. – The University of London UK
MSc Food Science – The University of Reading UK
BSc(hons) Nutrition – The University of Surrey, UK
SRD (State Registration in Dietetics) – The University of Surrey, UK

• Hileti D Milk Formulas. In:Encyclopedia of Food Sciences and Nutrition, 2nd edn, London: Academic Press (April 2003)
• Hileti-Telfer D Immunology syndromes.  In: Clinical Paediatric Dietetics, 2nd edn Blackwell Science Publications, 2001, pp. 214-218
• Shalev O, Hileti D, Nortey P, Hebbel RP, Hoffbrand AV. Transport of 14C-deferiprone in normal, thalassaemic and sickle red blood cells. Br J Haematol 1999 Jun;105(4):1081-3
• Hileti D, Panayiotidis P, Hoffbrand AV. Iron chelators induce apoptosis in proliferatingcells.BrJHaematol 1995 Jan;89(1):181-7
• D Hileti, RJ Ward, TJ Peters, LN Shepperd and AV Hoffbrand. Distribution of 14C-L1 in tissues of normal and iron-loaded rats (1993) European Iron Club, London (1st prize for poster presentation)
• P Panayiotides, D Hileti and AV Hoffbrand (1994) Iron Chelators induce apoptosis in proliferating but not resting cells. Blood 84 (Suppl 1), 257a
• D Hileti, RJ Ward, TJ Peters et al (1995) Pharmacokinetics, tissue distribution and cell uptake of 14C-labelled oral iron chelator L1 in the rat. British Journal of Haematology, 89 (Suppl 1), 87
• D Hileti, O Shalev, PT Telfer et al (1995) L1 (Deferiprone) accumulates within thalassaemic but not normal or sickle red blood cells. Blood, 86 (Suppl 1), 483a