Blue Ribbon Advisory Board

To advise us in our health and wellness efforts, PepsiCo has enlisted the help of the most renowned experts in the field of medicine and education. We are particularly indebted to Dr. Ken Cooper of the Cooper Aerobics Center, and Dr. Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. Under their leadership, PepsiCo has formed a Blue Ribbon Advisory Board. The Board includes some of the most respected wellness professionals in the world today. Board members have provided valuable insight into how we can address the issues and opportunities before us. Some of the board members include:

Gro Harlem Brundtland, M.D.

Former Director-General
World Health Organization
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S. Ward Casscells, M.D.

John Edward Tyson Distinguished Professor of Medicine & Public Health and Vice President for Biotechnology
The University of Texas Health & Science Center at Houston
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Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H.

President & Founder
The Cooper Aerobics Center
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Antonia Demas, Ph.D.

Director
Food Studies Institute
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Ambassador Thomas Foley

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
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Kenneth L. Gladish, Ph.D.

National Executive Director
YMCA of the U.S.A.
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David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine & Public Health
Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition
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James O. Hill, Ph.D.

Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
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James B. Hunt, Jr.

Former Governor of North Carolina
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David A. Kessler, M.D., J.D.

Dean, Yale School of Medicine
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Brock H. Leach

Seminary Student & Community Volunteer
Retired Chief Innovation Officer, PepsiCo, Inc.
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Susan M. Love, M.D.

Co-Founder & Senior Partner
Lluminari
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Mario de Camargo Maranhão, M.D.

Professor of Cardiology
Evangelic School of Medicine and Hospital
President and Founder, Instituto Qualivitae
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Dean Ornish, M.D.

Founder & Director
Preventive Medicine Research Institute (PMRI)
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Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Speaker in nutrition, stress and integrative medicine
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William Sears, M.D.

Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
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Janet E. Taylor, M.D.

Lluminari Expert Network
Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry at Columbia University
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Fernando M. Treviño, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Professor and Founding Dean of the School of Public Health
University of North Texas Health Science Center
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Kristy F. Woods, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor of Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health
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