Nutrition and Diet Specialist is a certified person whose areas of expertise are included but not limited to;

- Growth, development and life-long protection and improvement of all individuals’ health,
- Designation of individual nutrition’s and mass feeding’s plans and programs in accordance with nutrition science’s principles for the enhancement of quality of life,
- Research, assessment and solution finding of health problems stemmed from nutritional element, food and nutrition,
- Providing proper use of existing food sources in balance with economy and health rules,
- Enlightment of the individual and the community about these issues to enable adaptation of physiological, psychological and sociological lifestyle,
- Planning, education, enforcement and observation of diet programs based on the combination of natural and therapeutic nutritions, which are in consistent with medical and surgical treatments of congenital and acquired diseases and other special conditions.

The aim of Acibadem University Health Sciences Institute’s ‘Nutrition and Dietetics Graduate Program with thesis’ is to educate scholars, who are or will be a part of researcher/specialist team; and thus to teach them how to plan and perform researches in nutrition and dietetics field in consistent with changing health necessities and consequently contribute to universal science by way of evaluating the results; and also to educate nutrition and dietetic specialists, who are intelligent, efficient, competent and knowledgeable at national and international level and capable to contribute to national policies.