Gary Sams
Chief Wellness Officer
Gary Sams is the Chief Wellness Officer of beBetter Health, Inc. headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. beBetter Health is a full service population health management company servicing corporations, insurers and public agencies across the nation.
Gary received a BS degree in Education from Washington and Jefferson College and an MS degree in Cardiac Rehabilitation from the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Sams is a popular speaker and writer on health topics and has been published or quoted in several local and national publications.
As the Chief Wellness Officer for beBetter, Mr. Sams has been responsible for the direction, implementation and evaluation of a wide range of programs and services effecting over 3,000,000 individuals across the country.
Other Members
Debra Wein
CEO & founder of Wellness Workdays
James F. Sallis
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine and Public Health
Nicole Fallowfield
Principal and Director of Health Risk Management at Gibson
Kevin R. Strauss
Wellness Specialist
Thais Reis-Henrie
Project and Research Associate
Laura Torchio
Deputy Director of Transportation
Nathan Taylor
Wellness Coordinator, Youth Opportunity Center, Inc.
Jane Ellery
Professor
Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH
Chief Medical Officer & Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Zipongo
Stephan Herzog
Executive Director of American Board of Lifestyle Medicine
Margaret Moore
Coach Meg
Michael V. Pantalon
Addiction & Motivation Expert
Dr. Pamela Allweiss
Endocrinologist
Sharon Weinstein, MS, CRNI-R, RN, FACW, FAAN, CSP
Keynote and Motivational Speaker
Dr. Elizabeth Ablah, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Philip DiRusso
Corporate Wellness Manager at MaineGeneral Workplace Health
Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD
Doctor of Chinese Medicine
Joel Christner
Founder
Michael J. Hodges, MS CHES
Health Educator
Julie Luht, MPH, MCHES
Director of Education and Training
Katherine Bishop
State and Community Obesity Policy Manager for American Heart Association
Jennifer Wallinger
Deputy Director Readiness and Operations at US Navy
Joel Kimmons
Nutrition Scientist and Epidemiology
Vikram Khanna
Healthcare and Fitness Expert
Alfred Lewis
Founder and CEO of Quizzify
Jennifer Hall, EdD, MCHES
Assistant Professor Health Promotion and Master of Public Health Program
Dede Montgomery, MS, CIH
Senior Research Associate Oregon Health & Science University
Jack Dennerlein, PhD
Professor Northeastern University
Nicole Champagne
Associate Professor and Chair University of Massachusetts Lowel
LCDR Heidi Hudson
MPHCoordinator for Communication and Research Translation and Communication
Wolf Kirsten
Founder and President of International Health Consulting
Wendy D. Lynch Ph.D
Co-Director Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care Altarum Institute / Founder Lynch Consulting
Victor Strecher
Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education
Tommy Hutchinson
Founder & CEO @ i-genius
Tom Baranowski Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine
Suzanne L. Harrington, DNP, RN, MCHES
Executive Director, Center for Community Health and Well-Being at Georgia Institute of Technology
Steve Finikiotis
Principal OspreyVision
Sayer Ji
Founder Green Med Info
Ryan Niemiec
Education Director
Ron Goetzel
Senior Scientist/VP @ Johns Hopkins University/Truven Health Analytics
Rich Hamburg
Deputy Director @ Trust for America’s Health
Miguel A. Perez
Professor and Chair Fresno State
Melissa Rehrig
Deputy Executive Director
Melicia C. Whitt-Glover, Ph.D. FACSM
President/CEO Gramercy Research Group
Maryam J. Tabrizi, M.S. C.H.E.S.
Research Leader at Truven Health Analytics
Louis Alloro
Founder Louis Alloro and Associates
Lindsay Simone
Manager of Wellness Programs
Larry Chapman
Founder and CEO, Chapman Institute
Krisna Lee Hanks
Owner/Founder of Square One Wellness
Karen Mastroianni
Principal and Consultant
Jon Comola
Founder @ Global Knowledge Exchange Network on Health
Joel Bennett
President
Joanne M. Gallivan M.S. R.D.
Director
Joan Sotkin
CEO
Jessie Gordon
Owner / Managing Director / Communication Specialist / Author
Jennifer Pitts, Ph.D.
Founder of The Institute for Positive Organizational Health
Jennifer Cronin
Copy Editor @ Hope Health
Jennifer Childress
Consultant, Trainer
Erica Bohm, M.S.
VP and Director of Strategic Partnerships
Elizabeth H. Chaney Ph.D. MCHES
Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Education and Promotion
Dr. Samantha Harden
Assistant Professor
Rosie Ward, Ph.D., MPH, MCHES, BCC, CIC®, CVS-FR
Co-founder of Salveo Partners, LLC
Dr. Raffy R. Luquis
Associate Professor of Health Education
Jon Robison, Ph.D., MS, MA, CIC®
Co-founder of Salveo Partners, LLC
Dr. David L. Katz
Founding Director
Doug Hensch
President
Dixie Dennis
Associate Provost for Grants and Sponsored Programs; Dean of the College of Graduate Studies
Diane Tuncer
Deputy Director National Diabetes Education Program
Dee Edington
Founder and Chairman of Edington Associates, LLC
Dean Witherspoon
CEO and Founder
David Straker
Director Consultancy in Business and Personal Change
David Chenoweth, Ph.D., FAWHP
President
Constance Boehm
Director of Student Life @ Ohio State University
Claire Herring
Founder/CEO Blue Ocean Brain
Caroline Adams Miller
Keynote Speaker & Teacher
Carol Zimmerman
Director of Small Business Operations
Captain Tina Lankford
Captain
Captain Heidi Blanck, PhD
Obesity Chief, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Brian Berchtold
VP, Sales & Service
Blake Marble
Assistant Director of Student Life @ Ohio State University
Ann Marie Snell
Director and Chief Operating Officer
Ann Albright, PhD, RD
Director, Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Dr. John Weaver, Psy.D.
Psychologist
Alvaro Fernandez
Founder SharpBrains