Shikha G. Anand, MD, MPH is Pediatric Director, Whittier Street Health Center, Medical Director, CAVU Healthy Weight Initiative, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine. She received her medical degree from Albany Medical College in 2000. She completed her Internship at Schneider Children's Hospital and her residency at Yale New Haven Hospital in 2003. From 2003 through 2006 she was a fellow in the Division of General Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. She completed her Masters in Public Health at Boston University during that time. Since 2006, Dr. Anand has been the Pediatric Director at the Whittier Street Health Center in Roxbury, an underserved area of Boston. She started the Healthy Weight Clinic, a multi-disciplinary primary care obesity clinic, at that time. In 2008, she partnered with Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited to expand this model to seven additional community health centers in Massachusetts.

Jonathan F. Bean MD, MS, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, where he serves as the Director of Research Education and Training. Clinically, he is Medical Director at the Spaulding Cambridge Outpatient Center. In order to pursue his research interests within geriatric rehabilitation, in 1998, Dr. Bean transitioned his career path to that of a clinical investigator. Currently, Dr. Bean's work addresses the identification of both modifiable risk factors for mobility decline and the development of interventions to ameliorate mobility-related disability. He is a past recipient of the AAPM&R-New Investigator Award and has been awarded career development awards from the American Geriatrics Society and the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Bean's work has led to over 30 original manuscripts as well as invited reviews and chapters within the fields of Exercise, Rehabilitation, and Aging.

George L. Blackburn, MD, PhD is the S. Daniel Abraham Associate Professor of Nutrition and the Associate Director of Nutrition, Division of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School. He is the, Chief of the Nutrition Metabolism Laboratory, and Director of the Center for the Study of Nutrition Medicine (CSNM) at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his medical degree from the University of Kansas and completed his surgical residency at Boston City Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He obtained his doctorate in nutritional biochemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Joanne Borg-Stein, MD is Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. She is the Medical Director of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Center in Wellesley. She is also the Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Medical Director of the Spine Center at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Dr. Borg-Stein serves as team physician for varsity athletics at Wellesley College and is the director of the Harvard/SRH PM&R sports medicine fellowship.

Walter M. Bortz II, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and a graduate of Williams College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Recognized as one of America's most distinguished scientific experts on aging and longevity, Dr. Walter Bortz's research has focused on the importance of physical exercise in the promotion of robust aging. Dr. Bortz has written over 130 medical articles for such publications as JAMA and Annals of Internal Mediciney, as well as articles for lay publications such as The New York Times and Washington Post. He is a regular columnist for Runner's World and the Diabetes Wellness Letter and has authored or coauthored five books. An avid runner, the 79-year old Dr. Bortz runs 16 miles per week and has completed 36 marathons, including the 2005 Boston Marathon and the 2008 New York Marathon.

Nancy Clark, MS RD CSSD is Board certified as a Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD). In her private practice located at Healthworks in Chestnut Hill, Nancy counsels both casual exercisers and competitive athletes. Nancy is well known for her writing, including a monthly nutrition column called "The Athlete's Kitchen" that appears in over 100 sports and fitness publications, as well as her best-selling "Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook" that has sold over 500,000 copies.

Roger A. Fielding, PhD, of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, is Director and Senior Scientist of the Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia (NEPS) Laboratory, Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Fielding is an internationally known researcher who studies the underlying mechanisms contributing to the age-associated decline in skeletal muscle mass, the resultant impact on function, and the potential role of exercise and physical activity on attenuating this process

Ernest Gervino, ScD is the Director of the Exercise Testing Laboratory and serves as a consultant for the Harvard Clinical Research Institute as the director of the Exercise Testing Core Lab for both national and international research trials. His interests include the effects of exercise training, diet and behavior modification on the reduction of risk for a second cardiac event following a myocardial infarction, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and/or coronary artery pass grafting. Dr. Gervino is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

David L. Katz MD, MPH is an internationally renowned authority on nutrition, weight management, and the prevention of chronic disease, and an internationally recognized leader in integrative medicine and patient-centered care. He is a board certified specialist in both Internal Medicine, and Preventive Medicine/Public Health, and Associate Professor (adjunct) in Public Health Practice at the Yale University School of Medicine. Katz is the Director and founder (1998) of Yale University's Prevention Research Center; Director and founder of the Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital (2000) in Derby, CT; founder and president of the non-profit Turn the Tide Foundation; and formerly the Director of Medical Studies in Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine for eight years. He currently serves as Chair of the Connecticut Chapter of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease (http://www.fightchronicdisease.org), and represents Yale University on the Steering Committee of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (http://www.imconsortium.org).

Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH is the medical director of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his BA in Biology from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MD from University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School. He completed his residency in internal medicine at University of Illinois-Chicago Hospital. He recently completed a clinical research fellowship in complementary and integrative medicine at the Harvard Medical School Osher Research Center, during which he received Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Mehta is a diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, and has completed professional training in mindfulness-based stress reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Mehta is also a staff physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Margaret Moore (Coach Meg), M.B.A., co-director of the McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School Institute of Coaching, is an entrepreneur who founded Wellcoaches in 2000, following 17 years in the biotechnology industry, to establish standards for professional coaches in health care. She is the lead author of the Coaching Psychology Manual being published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins in 2009. Margaret's collaboration with Edward Phillips, M.D., to teach physicians a basic coaching roadmap, led to the launch of the Harvard Medical School Institute of Lifestyle Medicine.

Miriam E. Nelson, PhD is Director of the Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition and Associate Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. She is also a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, an honor reserved for those who have demonstrated superior leadership and research in the field of exercise.

Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH is the chief medical correspondent for nutrition and fitness for Discovery Health TV, and host of the National Body Challenge, and Could You Survive? series. Dr. Peeke's multimedia on Discoveryhealth.com and WebMD's "Everyday Fitness with Dr. Pam Peeke" are viewed by over 50 million users. Dr. Peeke is a New York Times bestselling author, Pew Foundation Scholar in nutrition and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland. She is the national spokesperson for the American College of Sports Medicine's Exercise IS Medicine campaign.

Elizabeth Pegg Frates, MD is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Director of Medical Education at the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, co-author of Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke and the online Harvard Medical School CME course, Lifestyle Medicine: The Exercise Prescription. As a trained wellness coach, Beth works with both patients and physicians to achieve optimum levels of wellness.

Edward M. Phillips, MD is Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. He is Director of Outpatient Medical Services of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Phillips' clinical and academic work at the intersection of exercise physiology and mental health spawned his interest in Lifestyle Medicine. He is founder and director of The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine.

John J. Ratey, MD is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and at Harvard's Continuing Medical Education Program, and a private practitioner in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research and synthesis of scientific principles have provided a wealth of understanding of the role of the brain-body connection to optimize mental and physical health and unlock human potential. Dr. Ratey is the author of The Distraction Series, Shadow Syndromes, A Users Guide to the Brain, and Spark - The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain.