Meet our Leadership
Food Is Medicine Initiative: Research Planning Group
Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, FAHA
Food is Medicine Research Lead
University of Pennsylvania
Director, Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)
Mark V. Pauly Presidential Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Health Care Management
Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School
Expertise: Behavioral economics/behavioral trials
Mitchell Elkind, MD, MS, FAHA
Staff Lead
American Heart Association
Chief Clinical Science Officer
Expertise: Clinical trials, Brain health, AHA mission and goals
Cheryl Anderson, MS, MPH, PhD
University of California San Diego
Professor and Dean, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
Expertise: Nutrition/health equity
Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Associate Professor, Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
UNC School of Medicine
Expertise: Food Is Medicine, Social determinants of health
Stacey Chang
New Origin Studio
Principal
Expertise: Human-centered design
Robert Harrington, MD, FAHA, FACC
Stanford University
Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine
Chairman, Department of Medicine
Expertise: Cardiovascular clinical trials/Health technology
Adrian Hernandez, MD, MHSc
Duke University
Professor of Medicine
Vice Dean and Executive Director of Duke Clinical Research
Executive Core Faculty Member, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Expertise: Cardiovascular clinical trials
Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, FACC
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine
Eileen M. Foell Professor
Expertise: Epidemiology/Prevention
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Duke University
Robert J. Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine, and Policy
Founding Director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Expertise: Health policy
Nathalie Moise, MD, MS, FAHA
New York-Presbyterian
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Florence Irving Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Director of the Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Service
Director of Implementation Science Research, Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health
Expertise: Implementation Science
Jen Muse, MS, RD, CDN
Staff
American Heart Association
Science & Health Advisor
Expertise: Clinical and Community Nutrition
Eric Peterson, MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC
University of Texas Southwestern
Vice Provost and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Research
Professor of Internal Medicine
Expertise: Cardiovascular Clinical Trials/Health technology
Shelby Reed, PhD
Duke University School of Medicine
Professor of Population Health Sciences
Therapeutic Area Leader for Population Health Sciences, DCRI
Expertise: Cost Effectiveness Research
Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS
University of California, San Francisco
Professor of Medicine, Departments of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Expertise: Food Is Medicine
Shreela Sharma, MA, RD, PhD
University of Texas
Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Expertise: Food Is Medicine
Andrea Troxel, ScD
NYU Langone Health
Director, Division of Biostatistics
Professor, Department of Population Health
Expertise: Biostatistics/Clinical Trials
Kristen Underhill, JD, DPhil
Cornell Law School
Associate Dean for Faculty Research
Professor of Law
Weill Cornell Medical College
Professor of Population Health
Expertise: Regulatory Policy, Qualitative Research