Scientific Advisory Council
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The McCormick Science Institute is led by nutrition scientists and advised by a Scientific Advisory Council (SAC).
The MSI Scientific Advisory Council is governed by the following guiding principles:
- Members of the SAC are appointed for one-year terms with the opportunity to extend upon mutual agreement.
- The primary role of SAC members is to identify areas of research to be considered for funding by MSI.
- SAC members may choose to engage in other activities, including reviewing MSI publications, writing articles or serving as media spokespersons, but are in no way obligated to do so.
- All SAC activities are dedicated to support the mission of MSI. Members have no obligation to support or promote the commercial interests of McCormick & Company, Inc.
- The SAC provides advice and guidance to MSI on which research projects might be appropriate for MSI funding, but has no decision-making authority to commit the MSI to fund any such projects.
- SAC members are permitted to submit proposals and receive funding from MSI in accordance with the policies of their institutions.
- SAC members receive reimbursement for travel and other expenses and/or an honorarium for services provided if permitted to do so by their employers.
- Composition of the SAC is public information and the identity and affiliation of its members is disclosed in MSI publications, the MSI website and other venues as appropriate.
- Any SAC member who may have a conflict of interest must promptly discuss the potential conflict of interest with the Executive Director of MSI. Appropriate actions, which may include abstention, recusation, and resignation from the SAC, will be taken to avoid any conflict between the personal and/or professional interests of a member and the SAC.
Current MSI Scientific Advisory Council Members
CHERYL A.M. ANDERSON, PhD, MPH, MS
Professor and Dean of the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
University of California San Diego
KEITH AYOOB, EdD, RD, FADA
Associate Clinical Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
BRIAN BERMAN, MD
Professor Emeritus - Family and Community Medicine
University of Maryland
President
NOVA Institute for Health
BRITT BURTON-FREEMAN, PhD
Associate Professor of Food Science and Nutrition
Illinois Institute of Technology
CHRIS D'ADAMO, PhD
Director, Center for Integrative Medicine
Assistant Professor, Departments of Family & Community Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health
University of Maryland School of Medicine
JOHANNA T. DWYER, DSc, RD
Professor of Medicine and Community Health
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
DAVID HEBER, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health, UCLA School of Medicine
UCLA Center for Human Nutrition
JAMES O. HILL, PhD
Chair of Nutrition Sciences, Director of Nutrition Obesity Research Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Nutrition Sciences
CARL L. KEEN, PhD
Professor, Department of Nutrition
University of California, Davis
CYRIL W.C. KENDALL, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Department of Nutritional Sciences Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto, Canada
MARY-JON LUDY, PhD, MS, RDN
Associate Dean, Graduate College
Bowling Green State University
KRISTINA PETERSEN, PhD, APD, FAHA
Assistant Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Texas Tech University
ANNE MARIE ROUSSEL, PhD
Emeritus Professor
University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
BARBARA ROLLS, PhD
Professor and Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
IAN ROWLAND, PhD
Professor of Human Nutrition
University of Reading, UK
BARBARA O. SCHNEEMAN, PhD
Professor Emeritus
University of California, Davis
GARY W. SMALL, MD
Physician in Chief, Behavioral Health / Chair of Psychiatry / Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
Hackensack Meridian Health / Hackensack University Medical Center / UCLA
