MARY JUDE B. ICASIANO

Current Job Responsibilities:

• Associate Director, Medical, Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, Wyeth Philippines , Inc. since 1993

Professional Experience :

• Product Development Specialist – Purefoods/San Miguel Corporation
• Research and Development Specialist/Quality Assurance  – Edward Keller Philippines, Inc.
• College Instructor – The Philippine Women’s College

Education

• M.S. Food Science 
• Institution:  The Philippine Women’s’ University
• Thesis : Development of an Acceptable and Nutritious Vacuum Fried Sweet Potato (ipomea batatas)    Chips
• Baccalaureate Degree Food Science and Technology
• Institution:  The Philippine Women’s’ University
• Location:    Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines
• Degree:  Food Science and Technology
• Awards/Achievements: Most Outstanding Food Technology Graduate – PWU (1983)
• Honorable Mention, B.S. Food Technology – PWU (1983)
• University Loyalty Award
• Outstanding Science and Technology Student Award – PAFT    (Phil. Association of Food Technology – 1982)

Professional Memberships

• Board of Directors,  Treasurer  – Philippine Association of Nutrition 2015, 2019-2021
• Board of Directors, Philippine Association for the Gifted - present
• President _ International Life Sciences Institute – 2015-2018
• Vice President- International Life Science Institute – 2014-2015
• Board of Directors, Philippine Association for the Gifted - present
• Member – Philippine Association of Nutrition - present
• Member – Nutritionists and Dietitians Association of the Philippines
• Member – Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), seeking CFS accreditation 2015 to present

Trainings

• Food Engineering, Philippine Trade Center – 1989
• Sensory Evaluation of Food Products FDC – 1991
• Management Course (Systematic Managerial Analysis) – December 1993
• Customer Relations Training – PICC 1995
• Microsoft ATC Course (MS Windows and MS Word) – February 1996
• International Congress of Dietetics PICC –1996
• Asian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition RTD – Bangkok, Thailand- October  1997
• Seminar on Seven Habits- Banyan Tree, Tagaytay,  1997
• Young Child Development Congress (UNICEF,WHO) KL Malaysia –November 1998
• Nutritionals WHO/Regulatory Affairs Meeting(Wyeth Global Marketing)  – May 1999
• Asian Nutrition Congress Seoul Korea –  August 1999
• Managing Safety and Health Training Course – January 2000
• Negotiating Skills Workshop (Wyeth Global Sales Training and Management Development) – January 2002
• ACE Workshop (Wyeth Initiated) August 2002
• Handling Customer Complaints Workshop- March 2003
• Basic Management Program (Ateneo Graduate School of Business) –  April 2003
• Direct Marketing/CRM Forum (Makati Shangrila, Philippines) – March 2004
• Power Presentation Workshop (Wyeth Philippines, Inc.)- May 2004
• Basic Management  2 (Ateneo Graduate School of Business) – June 2004
• Evidence-Based Medicine – July 15 & 16 , 2004
• Evidenced-Based Medicine on a Marketing Perspective – January 2006
• Nutritionist and Dietitian’s Annual Convention – February 2005
• Philippine Association of Nutrition Annual Convention- (committee member)- July 2005
• 4th Asian Congress of Dietetics –  PICC, Manila, April 26 to 28, 2006
• Presentation Skills Enhancement Workshop – Beijing, PRC June 2006 (Friedman Consultants)
• Philippine Delegate to the 28th CODEX –NFSDU Meeting- ChiangMai, Thailand, November 2006 
• Nutritionists and Dietitians Annual Convention- Pan pacific Hotel, February 19-20, 2007
• Early Life Nutrition & Long Term Outcomes – Singapore, June 8-9, 2007
• Seminar of TransFatty Acids in Foods – PCFMAI, Hotel Intercon, June 14, 2007
• Asian Congress of Nutrition – Taipei, September 9-13, 2007
• Mind Mapping Workshop – Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City, September 18-19, 2007
• Symposium of Functional Foods – EDSA Shangrila Hotel , October 02, 2007
• Nutritionists and Dietitians Annual Convention- Westin Hotels, Davao City, Philippines, March 15 – 17, 2008
• Experimental Biology Convention – San Diego, California, April 4-9, 2008
• Philippine Association of Nutrition Annual Convention – Cagayan de Oro City, July 30-31, 2008
• Asian Conference on Dietetics – Yokohama, Japan, September 2008
• Early Life Nutrition and Long Term Outcomes – Bangkok, Thailand, November 2008
• 53rd Annual Convention, Nutritionists and Dietitians , Manila – March 2009
• Advance in Pediatrics and Perinatal   Nutrition – Palo Alto , California, 2010
• Business Model Innovation (Mansmith and Fielders, Inc.) – September 2010
• Philippine Association of Nutrition Annual Convention – Manila,  July , 2010
• 8th Annual Health and Nutrition Conference – San Francisco, May 2011
• American Dietetics Association Annual Convention, San Diego, USA – Sept 24-27, 2011
• International Congress of Dietetics, Sydney, Australia, Sept 2012
• IYC Nutrition : The First 1000 days, September 2013
• American Dietetics Association Annual Convention, Houston, Texas,, USA – October 2013
• Franklin Covey Facilitator Enhancement Day – February 20,2014
• Institute of Food Technologists Annual Conference, New Orleans ,LA – June 2014
• Institute of Food Technologists Annual Conference, Chicago, IL – July 2016 and 2017
• American Dietetics Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, USA – October 2018