CURRICULUM VITAE
Education:
1974 B.S. Simmons College
1984 M.S. Massachusetts General Hospital School of Allied Health Professions, Nutrition
1994 D.Sc. Boston University, Nutrition (with Honors)
1998, 2004 No degree, Agribusiness Seminar, Harvard Business School, Boston, Mass.
Licensure and Certification:
1975 Registered dietitian: #R399474
Corporate Board of Directors:
2003- 2007 Wild Oats, Inc., Boulder, Colorado
Academic Appointments:
1995-1998 Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
1993-1995 Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital School of Allied Health Professions, Boston, Massachusetts
1996-1998 Adjunct Professor in Biology, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts
Hospital/Industry Appointments:
1975-1976 Director of Dietary Services, Shriners Burns Institute, Boston
1979-1984 Director of Dietary Services, Shriners Burns Institute, Boston
1984-1993 Nutrition Support Dietitian, Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Mass.
1993-1998 Research Dietitian, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass.
1998 Vice President, Research and Development, Medical Foods, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.
1998-1999 Managing Director, Functional Foods, LLC, Lowell, Mass.
1999- 2002 Co-Founder, Functional Foods, Inc., Chief Scientist, Belmont, Mass.
2002- Co-founder, Chief Scientist, AFFINTA, Belmont, Massachusetts
2002-04 Vice President Medical Research and Education, Sears Labs, Marblehead, Massachusetts
2003-04 Vital Basics, Nutritional Research and Product Development
2004- 2008 Ideasphere Inc., Research and Development Nutritional Sciences
Other Professional Positions and Major Visiting Appointments:
1976-1977 Visitor, Nutrition Department, Cambridge University, England
1977-1978 Dietitian for Elderly Feeding Program, City of Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
1978-1979 Dietitian, daka Food Service Company, Wakefield, MA
1997-1998 Consultant to Lawrence Community Health Services: HIV Clinic
1998-1998 Consultant to WellBridge Health Clubs
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DR. STACEY J. BELL Dr. Bell is a nutritional consultant. From 2004 to 2008 she was employed by IdeaSphere Inc as a Research Scientist. 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. Formerly, she worked for Sears Labs, as Vice President of Medical Research and Education in Danvers, Massachusetts. She also founded and worked with AFFINTA, Inc. as their chief scientific officer. There, she developed a functional food product, DelightFull, which is a snack bar that contains low-glycemic load carbohydrates to promote satiety. These bars were available at all CVS Pharmacy stores. Before that she was Vice President of Research and Development for Medical Foods Inc., and Functional Foods, Inc., in Boston, both of which she co-founded. For those companies, she developed several functional food products including NiteBite, which was licensed and sold by ICN Pharmaceutical Company, Costa Mesa, California. NiteBite was a food bar especially designed for the nutritional management of low blood sugar that occurs in type 1 diabetes. Stacey 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. For her dissertation, she evaluated the effect of supplemental fish oil on immune function in patients with HIV infection and AIDS. She was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School in Boston, and has published over 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles. Her research interests included obesity, diabetes, cancer, AIDS, burned patients, and critical illness. She is a frequent lecturer around the world on many topics related to nutrition and has 6 issued patents. In 2003, she joined the Board of Directors of Wild Oats, a natural and organic grocery store chain. It was a public company with sales of over $1 billion per year, when it was sold to Whole Foods Markets in 2007. She presently serves on the Board of a non-profit agency, Kids Can Cook. The program offers basic cooking instruction and nutrition education to Boston middle-school-aged children.
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