What is the contribution of Carmen Intengan?
·· ]M.S in Food and Nutrition· Ph.D in Nutrition from Columbia UniverstiyCarmen Intengan - Awards:· Presidential Award for outstanding contribution in basic nutrition research in the past decade 1957· FIDA Ten Outstanding Women Award 1967· Presidential Award for Merit for Science 1968· NRCP Achievement award 1983Carmen Intengan - Director of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute:Carmen Intengan served as the director of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute in the Philiines from 1974 to 1980.{p] Intengan has also been a lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine.Carmen Intengan:Food and nutrition researcher, Carmen Intengan (aka Carmen Llamas Intengan and Carmen L. Intengan) was a pioneer that helped improve the Filipino diet. She has conducted research studies in food analysis, enzyme work, and glass paper chromatography techniques.Carmen Intengan - Education:· B.S in Pharmacy· A.B in ChemistryCarmen Llamas Intengan is an expert in food and nutrition research. A woman with B.S in Pharmacy; A.B in Chemistry; M.S in Food and Nutrition; and completed Ph.D in Nutrition in Columbia Universtiy, she is one of the pioneers in the movement to improve and develop the food intake and kind of nutrition the Filipinos should take.She was born on 7 April 1915 in Tayabas, Quezon. Graduated elementary in her hometown, she finished secondary schooling in St. Scholastica's College. She was married to the late Jesus Intengan, who was a war casualty in 1941.CareerIntengan has contributed to the advancement of nutrition in the country as a researcher, career executive, and science administrator, having served as the director of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute from 1974-1980. She made special studies and has had special training in food analysis, enzyme work, and glass paper chromatography techniques. She has trained in public administration with emphasis on supervisory executive development, planning, programming, and evaluating research and development programs. As a professorial lecturer of University of the Philippines College of Medicine and part-time faculty member of St. Scholastic's College, she worked as research assistant in the Williams -Waterman Nutrition Survey Team.AwardsAwards for Intengan include: Presidential Award for outstanding contribution in basic nutrition research in the past decade (1957), FIDA Ten Outstanding Women Award (1967), Presidential Award for Merit for Science (1968), and the NRCP Achievement award (1983).
