James R. Whitehead is the Executive Vice President of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) in Indianapolis, Indiana, a position he has held since 1990. Prior to his appointment at ACSM, Whitehead served in executive roles at the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery in Washington, D.C. (1987-1990), and with other health-related foundations and associations.

Whitehead has published articles in health, public policy, and organizational literature. His area of research and practice focuses on innovation within planning processes, as well as health policy and administration. He has received honor awards from many professional associations, including the International Academy of Sports Vision, the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sports Psychology, the Council for Better Hearing and Speech, and the American College of Sports Medicine.

Whitehead has served as a speaker, panelist, or consultant for more than 125 organizations, including the U.S. Olympic Committee, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, and the American Public Health Association.

In adjunct capacities while at ACSM, Whitehead served as executive director of the following organizations: National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity (NCPPA), Joint Commission on Sports Medicine and Science, Wilderness Medical Society, and National Association for Health and Fitness. At present, he is the NCPPA president-elect.

Whitehead serves on numerous boards, including the National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity (NCPPA), the National Institute for Fitness and Sports, Inclusive Fitness Coalition, Alliance for Health Promotion, and Female Athlete Triad Coalition.

Whitehead is a member of the American Association of Medical Society Executives, the American Medical Writers Association, the American Association for the History of Medicine, the American Association of Political Consultants, and other societies related to the fields of medicine, science, policy, and organizational development.

Whitehead attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham, receiving degrees in political science (public administration) and history (business and medical history).

Roger A. Fielding, PhD is Director and Senior Scientist at the Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia (NEPS) Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and is a Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts. He also serves as Co-Director of the Tufts-New England Medical Center Clinical Research Center.

Dr. Fielding's research interests include the examination of 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 other therapeutic interventions on attenuating this process. His research is currently supported by the USDA, the National Institute on Aging, private foundations, and industry.

Dr. Fielding oversaw the development of the physical activity interventions for the LIFE (Lifestyle Interventions for Elders) Pilot study as Chair of the LIFE Study Intervention and Operations Committee. He also is a co-investigator and chair of the Body Composition Analysis committee for the NIA-funded "Calerie" trial and a member of the Physical Dysfunction Committee for the NIA-funded Testosterone trial planning grant.

Dr. Fielding is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Physiological Society, the Gerontological Society of America, and the National Scientific Advisory Council of the American Federation for Aging Research.

Margaret Moore is an entrepreneur and 17-year veteran of the biotechnology industry in the UK, France, Canada, and the USA. Margaret served in executive roles in two multinational pharmaceutical companies (later part of AstraZeneca and Aventis), and as CEO or COO of two startup biotechnology companies, including a cancer biotechnology company that merged with publicly traded Medigene AG (Germany) in 2001.

In 2000, Margaret shifted focus from the high-tech side of medicine to prevention and well-being and founded Wellcoaches Corporation (strategic partner of the American College of Sports Medicine), which is setting the standard for professional coaches in healthcare, and building the new professions of health coach, fitness coach, and wellness coach.

The company's coach training school, which employs thirty world-class faculty members, has trained 3,000 physical and mental health professionals as health, fitness, and wellness coaches in the past five years, and now trains more than 1,000 coaches per year. Margaret is the co-founder of the new Harvard Medical School Coaching & Positive Psychology Initiative and annual Coaching Psychology conference. Margaret's collaboration with Edward Phillips, MD, to build a coaching roadmap for physician visits, has led to the launch of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard Medical School, of which Margaret is a founding advisor. Margaret is the lead author of the Coaching Psychology Manual in press by Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins.

Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS is Professor of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine and Professor in the Graduate Program in Public Health, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. Born and educated in New York City, Dr. Jonas received his MD from the Harvard Medical School, his MPH from the Yale School of Medicine and his MS in Health Management from New York University. He is board certified in Preventive Medicine and is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American Public Health Association, and the New York Academy of Medicine.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the American Medical Athletic Association Journal (2002- ), a member of the editorial board of ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal (1999- ), and a past Associate Editor of Preventive Medicine (1983-2005). Dr. Jonas has been a regular columnist on sports and health for the national monthly Triathlon Today! (1988-1993), the Triathlon Federation/USA's monthly Triathlon Times (1990-91), the American Medical Athletic Association Quarterly, then Journal (1999-; and americanTRI magazine (2002-04). Presently he is a regular columnist for USA-Triathlon Life, under the title "Ordinary Mortals™ Talking Triathlon with Steve Jonas." He is the Continuing Medical Education Liaison between the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American Medical Athletic Association.

His first book in the health, wellness, and fitness/athletics field was Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals (New York: W.W. Norton, 1986; "Updated and Expanded" edition, 1999, 20th anniversary 2nd ed. was published in July, 2006). He has published extensively since then, including the following: The Essential Triathlete; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice, (2nd ed., 2007); Just the Weigh You Are, co-author to Linda Konner (Boston, MA: Chapters/Houghton Mifflin, 1997; Talking About Health and Wellness With Patients: Integrating Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Into Your Practice (sole author; New York: Springer Publishing Co., 2000). He was a co-writer of the American College of Sports Medicine Fitness Book, 3rd ed. (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2003). His latest work, with co-author Eddie Phillips, is Exercise is Medicine™: The Exercise Prescription in Clinical Practice (working title, to be published in early 2009), the official textbook for the new American College of Sports Medicine national program, Exercise is Medicine™.

In addition to his work as a regular columnist, Dr. Jonas has published numerous articles on sport, exercise, weight management, and health promotion in a broad range of academic and lay publications and has delivered many talks to professional and lay audiences.

An athlete himself, Dr. Jonas bicycles, runs, swims, PaceWalks, and lifts weights on a regular, year-round training program. He has done more than 185 multi-sport races, including more than 36 Olympic-distance triathlons, 13 long triathlons, and numerous "sprint distance" triathlons and duathlons. He has also completed seven marathons.

Professor Adrian Kennedy is Founder and Managing Director of Lifetime Wellness Rx International Limited, an Apollo Hospitals Group Initiative, and President of the Health & Wellness Association of India. With an academic background in business, law and health, he has more than 30 years of experience in the field of corporate health care and lecturing worldwide on this subject.

In addition, as Director in the Apollo Hospitals Educational & Research Foundation, he has created post-graduate academic programs in Lifestyle Medicine, Integrated Medicine, and Wellness Management, and has been guest faculty for a Harvard Medical School Continuing Medical Education (CME) course.

He holds a patent for the Computerized Health Scan for which he received the World Health Award in 2000 from the government of Dubai and has implemented this Lifestyle Assessment Software in more than 50 hospitals, covering more than 100,000 clients annually.

He has authored the book Fitness: A Way of Life, published by McGraw Hill, and written an encyclopedia of eight books on Lifestyle Medicine. These books are textbooks for health and medical graduates. Several hundred articles written by him have been featured in newspapers such as The Telegraph, The Times of India, and The Economic Times, and he has been featured in a six-serial series on Health & Lifestyle Management on India's national television.