RLI research staff members include physicians, research nurses, registered dietitians, exercise physiologists and senior level scientists with doctoral degrees. RLI also works with senior research consultants who advise research staff on issues of research design, data analyses, practical matters of subject evaluation, assessment and treatment as well as abstract and manuscript preparation and submission. Senior research consultants—highly-regarded and well-published clinicians, academicians and researchers—represent a number of prestigious institutions including University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, University of Rhode Island, Tufts University School of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and The University of Central Florida.

James M. Rippe, M.D. - Founder and Director

RIPPE LIFESTYLE INSTITUTE,
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

Elizabeth Porcaro Grady - Editorial Director/Managing Editor

Carol Moreau - Executive Assistant to the Founder and Director

Connie Martell - Chief Financial Officer

Debra Adamonis - Office Assistant

Stephanie Hart Rippe - Director of Rippe Multimedia

RIPPE LIFESTYLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FLORIDA,
Celebration, Florida

William Rippe, M.D. - Rippe Health Evaluation Medical Director

Katia Gugucheva, M.D. - Medical Director of Executive Women’s Health

Amy Stachnik - Director of Marketing and Client Services

Von Nguyen, M.S., RD - Senior Director of Nutrition and Metabolism at Rippe Health

Joshua Lowndes, MA

Lara Katich - Recruiter

Zhiping Yu, PhD, RD - Director of Human Nutrition Metabolism

Manuel Caday, RN, BSN, MD - Research Nurse/Clinic Manager

Kacie Fick, M.S. – Exercise Physiologist

Stephanie Sinnett, M.S., R.D. – Research Nutritionist

Wanda Garcia, LPN – Lab Assistant

Noy Supaswud – Executive Assistant and Office Manager

Senior RLI Research Consultants

Kathleen Melanson, Ph.D., R.D., L.D. - Senior Research Consultant in Nutrition