Blast Wellness is supported by our distinguished medical advisory board:

Dr. Gerard J. Musante, PhD. is the founder and director of Structure House, a residential weight management and healthy lifestyle clinic in Durham, NC.  Established in 1977, Structure House pioneered the behavior approach to weight management.  Thousands of adults from all 50 states and more than 35 countries have sought and found solutions for their negative relationships with food.  In addition, Dr. Musante is a consulting professor at the Duke University Medical Center.

Walter J. Pories, MD FACS, is the Chief of the Eastern Carolina University Metabolic Institute and the Principal Investigator for major obesity research grants for the National Institutes of Health and Industry.  In addition, Dr. Pories is the former President of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery.

Dr. Dennis Gage, M.D., F.A.C.P. is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Clinical Nutrition. He is a Clinical Instructor in Medicine at New York University and an Attending Physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC. Attending Physician at Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC Dr. Gage has a private practice in NYC. Member, NAASO, ADA, AMA.  Dr. Gage is the author of The Thinderella Syndrome: A Practical Guide to Individualized Permanent Weight Loss- www.thethinderellasyndrome.com. Dr. Gage has conducted several research projects in the treatment of obesity.

Sylvia Escott-Stump, MA, RD, LDN is the Dietetic Programs Director at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina and has a consulting practice, Nutritional Balance. She has established a 5-county WIC program; consulted for Dietetic Services Departments and dietetic education programs; and managed budgets and contracts over $850,000 annually.  She is author of 6 editions of Nutrition and Diagnosis-Related Care and 4 editions of Krause’s Food, Nutrition and Diet Therapy. 

Sylvia has an MA in Adult-Community Education, and a BS in Nutrition Education from Indiana University of PA.  Honors include the Medallion Award from the American Dietetic Association; Outstanding Dietitian of Pennsylvania ; Distinguished Alumni Award from IUP. She has served The American Dietetic Association as Chair of the Standardized Language Task Force; Speaker of the House of Delegates; Chair of Issues Management, Council on Professional Issues, Clinical Nutrition Management DPG. Sylvia served as a CADE Site Visitor and as president and treasurer for Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Pittsburgh associations; and she has served on governance, positions, and quality management committees.

Kitty Gurkin Rosati, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., has specialized in the prevention and reversal of heart disease and other chronic diseases, with over 13 years of professional experience with cardiac and drug rehabilitation. Her work experiences also include teaching nutrition to dental students at the U.N.C. at Chapel Hill, to IBM executives in the NC Research Triangle, and to patients in private practice. After years in cardiac rehabilitation, she published her successful consulting nutrition efforts in implementing a reversal cardiac diet in the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation. She is a Registered Dietitian involved in preventing and reversing heart disease through a healing of not only the physical, but of the emotional and spiritual self as well. Kitty is author of the book HEAL YOUR HEART: "The New Rice Diet Program for Reversing Heart Disease Through Nutrition, Exercise, and Spiritual Renewal" and THE RICE DIET COOKBOOK and along with Dr. Rosati is co-author of THE RICE DIET SOLUTION: The World-Famous Low-Sodium, Good-Carb, Detox Diet for Quick and Lasting Weight Loss.

Our advisory board members are not being financially compensated for their participation with Blast Wellness Center.