Dr. Marisha Palm joined Tufts Medical Center in October 2018. She is the Program Director for two large national clinical trials networks, the Strategies to Innovate Emergency Care Research Network (SIREN) and the Trial Innovation Network (TIN), and Associate Director of Organizational Impact for Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Dr. Palm is interested in multi-stakeholder collaboration and engagement, broadly engaged team science, and innovative study design.

Dr. Moore is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy within the Division of Nutrition Interventions, Communication, and Behavior Change at Tufts University and a Post-Doctoral Scholar within the Department of Civil Society and Community Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

At Tufts University, he works with the Catalyzing Communities team, a project of the ChildObesity180 initiative, to advance their mission and impact of scaling evidence-based obesity prevention strategies nationwide. He leads research on its unique, community-based systems dynamics approach to assess whether and how local, tailored health interventions can scale across nine partner communities. Dr. Moore also co-leads a health equity and community-engaged research fellowship for undergraduate and graduate students on the project.

Dr. McKay is the Director of Tufts University’s Friedman Online Graduate Certificate Programs, an Assistant Professor in the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, the Tufts School of Medicine, and served as a Scientist in the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA). 

She obtained a BS in Biological Sciences from Carnegie-Mellon University and, from Tufts University, received MS degrees in Biological Sciences and Nutrition Communications, and a PhD in Human Nutrition. She serves on the Examination Committee for the Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists, the editorial board of the Tufts Health & Nutrition Newsletter, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council at NBTY, Inc.