About CMHRC

Vivienne Hill is a student at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and currently lives in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Vivienne’s experiences growing up abroad have deeply influenced her passion for grassroots advocacy and international relations. She co-founded the Teen Sexual Health Alliance to provide accessible and inclusive education to teenagers, driven by a belief in the power of community-led initiatives. Vivienne has been involved in her community through her role as a Sustainable Food Systems Youth Policy Leader for the Hawai’i Climate Future Forum in 2023 and as a continued member of the Hawai’i Youth Food Council and the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council.

Vivienne oversaw the data collection and aggregation for CMHRC’s 2024-2025 pilot study on the use of ketogenic therapy to treat bipolar disorder in children aged 6-17. She believes in CMHRC’s mission to provide community based support to families and providers. She is eager to contribute to CMHRC’s new longitudinal research study as the study coordinator, and to both learn from and support this community.

Lisa is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has worked for the past 30 years in helping professions, including education and pastoral ministry. She walks alongside people with all kinds of hurts and helps to find strategies that help ease the burden. Lisa’s personal experience with adoption, anxiety, depression, and working through spiritual crisis informs her work in supporting patients, parents, and families.

Luis Adrian Soto‑Mota is a physician-scientist renowned for his work in human metabolism, data analysis, and evidence-based medicine. Currently, he leads the Metabolic Diseases Research Unit at Mexico’s National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition, where he also serves as an Internal Medicine Consultant and Professor. At the same time, he teaches Clinical Medicine at Tec de Monterrey.

Dr. Soto‑Mota earned his MD from UNAM (honored as one of the top three academically distinguished students), completed his Internal Medicine specialization at INCMNSZ, pursued a PhD at Oxford, and undertook advanced data science studies at Harvard. His diverse teaching and research experiences span institutions in Mexico, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Beth A. Zupec-Kania, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and owner of Ketogenic Therapies LLC, began her career as a hospital dietitian. For more than twenty years, she specialized in managing ketogenic diets for epilepsy. Following her experience in hospital settings, Beth established a private practice where she offers therapeutic guidance to individuals with neurological, endocrine, selected cancers, and psychiatric disorders. Beth serves as a consultant in ketogenic research for psychiatric disorders, and has authored numerous educational resources for both consumers and professionals, including the “Ketogenic Diet Therapy for Neurological Disorders Pocket Guide.” Beth has provided training on ketogenic therapies to over 300 medical centers and co-designed the Keto Mastery Therapeutics courses for medical professionals. She is the architect of KetoDietCalculator, a software tool for calculating and managing ketogenic therapies. Beth is also a founding member of Ketogenic Specialists and serves on the advisory boards of The Charlie Foundation, International Neurologic Ketogenic Society, Metabolic Mind, Glut1 Deficiency Foundation, and AnorExit. Beth is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the Dietitians in Functional Medicine Practice Group.

Denise has been a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) for 33 years. For the past 17 years she has focused on Ketogenic Medical Nutrition Therapy. She has been privileged to speak to, train and educate professionals and individuals around the globe on therapeutic ketogenic therapies. She strives to provide client-centered, personalized therapy, counseling, and education. Denise has a passion for helping underserved populations benefit from the ketogenic diet. She authored The Migraine Diet: A Ketogenic Meal Plan for Headache Relief.

Dr. Ede is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in nutrition science and brain metabolism. With over twenty-five years of clinical experience including twelve years as a college psychiatrist and nutrition consultant at Smith College and Harvard University Health Services, Dr. Ede was the first to offer students nutrition-based approaches as an alternative to psychiatric medications. She speaks internationally about dietary approaches to psychiatric disorders and co-authored the first inpatient study of the ketogenic diet for treatment-resistant mental illnesses, developed the first medically accredited course in ketogenic diets for mental health practitioners, and was honored to be named a recipient of the Baszucki Brain Research Fund’s first annual Metabolic Mind Award. Her book Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind was published in January 2024.

Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health
University of Edinburgh
Usher Institute
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Dr. Harry Campbell has helped instigate and has contributed to the development of the research theme of metabolic psychiatry in Edinburgh and internationally together with Dr Iain Campbell, Prof Danny Smith and other colleagues. He was PI on a pilot study of a ketogenic diet intervention [supported by the Baszucki Brain Research Foundation] and is an investigator on the MRC Mental Health Research Hub on Metabolic Psychiatry [led by Prof Danny Smith 2024-2028] and a Wellcome funded [£7M] trial of the ketogenic diet for bipolar depression [led by Prof Rebecca Reynolds; 2025-2030]. He supervises a Baszucki Research Fellow in Metabolic Psychiatry jointly with Prof Danny Smith. He has acted as the chair of the MPH Board of Examiners meetings until 2020. Professor Campbell has acted as external examiner at Imperial College London and  the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the past decade.

University of Edinburgh
Division of Psychiatry
Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

Dr. lain Campbell is the Baszucki Research Fellow in Metabolic Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh. His primary research interests focus on the role of metabolic dysfunction in the brain and central nervous system and how these relate to symptoms of serious mental illness. Dr Campbell has a PhD in Global Health from the University of Edinburgh and is a principal investigator on a pilot trial of a ketogenic diet for bipolar disorder; a co-investigator on the UKRI MRC Metabolic Psychiatry Hub and a co-investigator leading lived experience workstreams on Wellcome Trust funded projects Helios-BD and Ambient-BD. Dr. Campbell has lived experience of Bipolar Disorder Type 2 which has informed his research.

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School

Dr. Melissa DeJonckheere is an adolescent health researcher specializing in qualitative, mixed methods, participatory, and community-engaged research. Her research focuses on psychosocial influences on health and well-being, particularly among adolescents with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. She leads the Type 1 Diabetes Youth Advisory Council to gather feedback from adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes and inform diabetes research. Dr. DeJonckheere is also interested in improving access to and participation in academic research for youth, students, and trainees who have historically been excluded from science and research experiences. She directs the MYHealth Research Training Program, an NIH-funded Science Education Partnership Award (R25) to increase research interest, identity, and self-efficacy in high school students in Southeast Michigan.

Dr. DeJonckheere is Co-Director of the Mixed Methods Program at the University of Michigan. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Mixed Methods Program. Dr. DeJonckheere completed her PhD in Educational Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where she worked on qualitative and mixed methods projects in both the education and health fields. She serves on the IHPI committees: Early Career Faculty Advisory Committee and Education and Career Development Advisory Group.