TM Yevo Scientific Advisory Board Dr. Stacey J. Bell Head of the Yevo Scientific Advisory Board Dr. Stacey Bell has been a nutritional consultant from 2008 to 2014, when she joined Yevo International. From 2005-2008 she was a Research Scientist at IdeaSphere, Inc. In addition to creating products for them, she developed a line of over 25 products for Tony Robbins, the motivational speaker, and helped with the development of products for Dr. Alan Greene, a noted pediatrician, and Dr. Andrew Weil, a well-known expert in the field of alternative medicine. Dr. Bell has been a registered dietitian for 35 years, and has worked in that capacity and conducted clinical research studies for 20 years. She received a doctorate in nutrition from Boston University, with Honors in 1994. She was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School in Boston, and has published over 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles. Her research interests include obesity, diabetes, cancer, AIDS, burned patients, and critical illness. She is a frequent lecturer around the world on many topics related to nutrition and is credited with six issued patents.
Dr. Claudia Cooke Listen to the patient and you will hear the diagnosis. Sir William Osler Claudia M. Cooke, MD, MPH, FACP, FAAMA, is a practitioner of Integrative Internal Medicine in New York City, whose time is mostly dedicated to the evaluation and care of her patients. In earlier years she worked as an ER physician, including many years spent in one of New York s busiest ERs. She holds an appointment with NY Presbyterian s Columbia division where she has served as a preceptor in Physical Diagnosis to the medical students for the past 16 years. Nutrition, environment, lifestyle, and psychosocial factors all weigh equally in her approach to clinical evaluation. Therapeutic interventions employed are similarly diversified, drawing from both standard and alternative modalities, including dietary revision and supplementation, acupuncture, and mind-body strategies. When not otherwise professionally engaged, she enjoys long tree-lined walks, jazz piano, gathering with friends over good food, traveling to faraway places, and she never tires of rereading the poems of Eliot, Whitman and Donne.
Dr. Robert DiSilvestro Dr. DiSilvestro holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Texas A&M University and is currently a Professor of Human Nutrition at The Ohio State University. He is the author/co-author of about 100 peer-reviewed, research journal articles. He is also an author of a number of reviews, book chapters and one book on the state of research for mineral nutritional supplements. His research has covered a diverse range of directions. Dr. DiSilvestro has been on the editorial boards for a number of research journals and has been a member of two NIH study sections. He has also spoken at a number of nutrition industry trade shows and written for nutrition industry trade journals.
Pei Ra Ling, M.D., M.S. Dr. Ling recently retired as a Research Scientist in the Nutrition/Infection Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and as an Assistant Professor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School. From 1984 2014, Dr. Ling s research is focused on the roles of insulin-like growth hormone I (IGF-I), ghrelin, and interleukin 6 (IL-6) on protein, glucose and fat metabolism at acute and chronic inflammatory conditions, including sepsis, hyperglycemia, obesity, HIV and pregnancy. She is the author or co-author of 65 original publications in the scientific literature and 4 chapters in medical educational book. Dr. Ling serves as a reviewer for medical journals, including Critical Care Medicine, Metabolism, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Nutrition. She has been Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator or Investigator for several grants supported by NIH or industry. Dr. Ling was the 2005 recipient of the Physician Award from American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Dr. Ling received her B.S, in Biology from Beijing University in 1967, a Medical degree from Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) in 1970, and a Master s degree in science from PUMC in 1982 in China.
Joseph Andrew Molnar, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Molnar was born and raised in Akron, Ohio and pursued his undergraduate education at Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls, N.Y. He attended medical school at Ohio State University where he graduated cum laude. He began general surgical training at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee but chose to interrupt this training to obtain his Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism at M.I.T. while working in the laboratories of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Burn Institute of Harvard Medical School. He then completed general surgery training at the University of Washington in Seattle, followed by Plastic Surgery training at the Medical College of Virginia. He finalized his clinical training with Hand and Microsurgery fellowships at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He joined the faculty in plastic surgery of Wake Forest University in 1994, and was appointed to the Department of Regenerative Medicine in 2005. At present he is Professor, Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Associate Director WFUBMC Burn Unit Medical Director Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center. He has published 50 peer-reviewed articles and wrote 14 book chapters. In 2012, he was voted by US News and World Report to be the top plastic surgeon in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dr. Molnar s area of interest is healing, especially as related to burns, nutrition, biomatrices, and subatmospheric pressure treatment. Currently, Dr. Molnar is editing a book on Nutrition and Wound Healing.
Raymond Rodriguez, Ph.D. Dr. Rodriguez is a professor in the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology and executive director of the Global Health Share Initiative at UC Davis. He received his Ph.D. at UC Santa Cruz in 1974 and was an A.P. Giannini Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the UC Medical Center in San Francisco from 1973-77. While at UCSF, Dr. Rodriguez developed technologies that now serve as the foundation for the biotechnology industry. His paper on the construction of the first NIH-approved molecular cloning vector, pbr322, is a citation classic, having been cited nearly 5500 times. Dr. Rodriguez joined UC Davis in 1977 and is actively involved in research and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. From 2003-10 he served as director of the Center of Excellence for Nutritional Genomics, a multidisciplinary research and training program studying the impact of dietgenome interactions on human health. He has published numerous articles and books on molecular biology, biotechnology and human nutrition. His current research interests include: (a) the impact of dietary signals on aging and the epigenetic regulation of gene function and global health disparities as a complex system. Dr. Rodriguez is an inventor, currently holding 20 issued U.S. patents. He is also an entrepreneur and thought leader on future trends in technology that impact human health and wellness. As executive director of Global HealthShare, Dr. Rodriguez is dedicated to eliminating global health disparities through the power of sharing knowledge, resources and technology. In his capacity as executive director, he oversees agriculture, nutrition, and health technologies from South Asia to Africa.