Caroline Apovian, M.D. is the Associate Director of the DASH for HealthTM Program. She is the Director of Boston Medical Centers Nutrition and Weight Management Center and is a leader in the medical weight loss field. Prior to joining the staff at Boston Medical Center she had been on the faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the Department of Womens Health. In her free time she enjoys competitive swimming, running and biking. She is a former amateur triathlete, and still enjoys a race or two.
Diana Cullum-Dugan, RD, LD is a registered dietitian with experience in corporate health promotion, weight management, and physical fitness. She has taught aerobics for 15 years and enjoys a vegetarian lifestyle. She promotes a wholesome, natural, unprocessed diet and lots and lots of purposeful activity. One of her favorite things to do is encourage others to be the very best they can be in all they do. This is why her chosen career(s) are so important to her she gets to do this every day!.
Tom Moore, MD is the Director of DASH for HealthTM Program. He is a professor of medicine and the chairman of the original study that developed the DASH Diet and proved it to be so effective in lowering blood pressure. He has studied the blood pressure effects of foods and salt intake for over 20 years. He was formerly at Harvard and was Executive Medical Director with Merck pharmaceutical company. Tom lives outside of Boston with his family; enjoys biking, tennis and golf.
Pao-Hwa Lin, PhD is a faculty member at the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina. She was the lead dietitian in the original DASH Diet study. She has continued to study the health benefits of the DASH Diet through the development and implementation of the DASH, DASH-Sodium and PREMIER trials. She is happily married, and has three daughters age 4, 9 and 12. She enjoys reading, walking and just doing nothing sometimes.
Megan Murphy, MPH the the Program Manager of DASH for Health. She received a Masters Degree from the Boston University School of Public Health where she focused her studies on how to help people adopt healthier behaviors, especially diet and exercise. She enjoys golf (although she has been known to give a black eye or two with her back swing), tennis and travel.

Kate Meyers Gilbert, MA joined the DASH Team in January of 2007 as the Web Content Manager. She has recently been awarded a Masters Degree in Health Communication at Emerson College where she focused her studies on consumer health education through new media. She enjoys hiking, camping, traveling and goat cheese.

Jerry Coffman, MS is the Associate Director of the Data Coordinating Center at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is a statistician by training whose interests have grown to include web design and database development. Prior to Boston University, he worked at the University of Pittsburgh, and has accumulated over 20 years of experience. Jerry enjoys a daily swim and an occasional bike ride around the Charles River.
Mark Jenkins is a professional writer. He helped compose much of the educational content for this program. He has been a writer on several top health books, including THE DASH DIET FOR HYPERTENSION (Simon & Schuster, 2002), which he wrote along with Tom Moore, Lin Pao-Hwa, and Laura Svetkey (other members of our DASH for HealthTM team). In addition to writing books on health, Mark is a paid consultant in the Harvard Medical School system. Mark has also written for such publications as varied as Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal, and also wrote and presented on-air humor commentaries on American Public Radio. When hes not at his computer Mark is likely to be found biking, hiking, or bodysurfing where he lives on the island of Marthas Vineyard.