Thomas B. Gilliam, Ph.D.

Thomas B. Gilliam, Ph.D., is the founder and president of Move It. Lose It. Live Healthy., LLC, co-author of the book Move It. Lose It. Live Healthy.: The Simple Truth About Achieving & Maintaining a Healthy Body Weight, creator of the Move It. Lose It. Live Healthy.® wellness program, designed to teach workers how to achieve a healthy body weight, founder of www.moveitloseitlivehealthy.com, and founder and owner of Industrial Physical Capability Services, Inc. (IPCS).

Since 1982, Dr. Gilliam has designed and managed many corporate fitness centers ranging from 500 square feet to 34,000 square feet. In addition, Dr. Gilliam has established a variety of wellness programs to deal with such topics as high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, physical inactivity, stress, osteoporosis, low back pain, and many more.

Dr. Gilliam is a pioneer and acknowledged expert in the field of dynamic strength testing for industry based on the sports medicine model. Since 1982, Dr. Gilliam has provided isokinetic physical capability assessments for Fortune 1000 companies through his company Industrial Physical Capability Services, Inc. (www.ipcs-inc.com). Dr. Gilliam’s programs have dramatically reduced workers’ compensation costs and decreased injury incidence and severity rates for major industrial clients. In addition, Dr. Gilliam has been instrumental in identifying and presenting to industry the higher risk for injury and disease caused by obesity in the workplace.

Dr. Gilliam is the creator of the Heart “E” Heart program, which is a healthy lifestyle program for children and their families. Dr. Gilliam was the principal investigator in a National Institutes of Health research study investigating the impact of physical activity and nutritional habits on heart disease risk in young children. This research in the late 1970s resulted in numerous scholarly publications and television and radio interviews throughout the world including NBC’s Today Show and NBC’s Nightly News with their science editor, Robert Basel.

In 1973, Dr. Gilliam earned a doctorate degree from Michigan State University in exercise physiology with a minor in graduate statistics and research design. From 1974 to 1982, Dr. Gilliam was a tenured faculty member at the University of Michigan. Before resigning from his tenured faculty position, he was involved with numerous funded research projects (i.e., N.I.H., Kellogg Foundation, State of Michigan, and others) that resulted in 29 refereed, scholarly publications. 
 
Jane C. Neill, R.D., L.D.

Jane Neill received her bachelor’s of science degree from the University of Alabama in 1977 in Food, Nutrition and Institutional Management. Ms. Neill has been working as a registered dietitian for over 27 years. She is an active member of the American Dietetic Association and currently employed by the Alabama Department of Public Health where she works with the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program as a WIC coordinator and a licensed dietitian. She has worked in the WIC program for over 10 years providing daily nutrition counseling for women, infants and children.

While on the staff as a registered dietitian at the University of Michigan Health System in the late 1970s, Ms. Neill was instrumental in working with Dr. Gilliam as an investigator on the National Institutes of Health research study to investigate the impact of physical activity and nutritional habits on heart disease risk in children ages six to eight years.

Ms. Neill is the 2004 recipient of the Nutritionist of the Year Award for the State of Alabama Public Health.