Biographical Sketch of Dr. Stacey J. Bell

Dr. Stacey Bell is a nutritional consultant to the food and dietary supplement industries. Recently, Dr. Bell was the Chief Science Officer for Nutrient, in Reno, Nevada. She had previously been a nutritional consultant from 2008 until 2014, when she joined Peak Health (formerly Yevo and Nutrient Foods) in Reno, Nevada, as the Chief Scientific Officer. From 2005-2008 she was a Research Scientist at IdeaSphere Inc. 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 Dr Barry Sears at Sears Labs, as Vice President of Medical Research and Education in Danvers, Massachusetts. She also founded and worked as chief scientific officer with AFFINTA, Inc a start up with the aim of producing nutraceuticals. 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 nutritionist for more than 40 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 150 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. Dr. Bell served on the advisory board for Sam’s Club Advisory panel for Healthy Living Made Simple publication, Flower Mound, Texas, and is currently on the scientific board of Bay State Milling, Quincy, Massachusetts. Until 2011, she served on the Board of a non-profit agency, Kids Can Cook, in Boston. Dr. Bell is a member of the Nutrition Round Table of the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health, and served as its co-chair from 2018-2020. She co-founded and is on the Board of Directors of the Cancer Nutrition Consortium.

Contact: 617 999-6150, staceyjbell@yahoo.com