


Project Healthy Schools Founder
Kim Eagle, M.D., M.A.C.C.
The alarming increase of childhood obesity and other preventable cardiovascular risk factors compelled Dr. Kim Eagle to contribute with a solution in 2004 through the co-founding of the Project Healthy Schools program. Dr. Eagle is the Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine and director of the Samuel and Jean Frankel Cardiovascular Center at Michigan Medicine. He graduated from Oregon State University in 1976 and from Tufts University Medical School in 1979. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital from 1979 to 1983 followed by research and clinical fellowships in cardiology and health services research at Harvard Medical School and The Massachusetts General Hospital from 1983 through 1986. From 1986 to 1994, Dr. Eagle served The Massachusetts General Hospital where he was promoted to associate director of Clinical Cardiology and associate professor of Medicine at Harvard.

Kim Eagle, M.D., M.A.C.C.
The alarming increase of childhood obesity and other preventable cardiovascular risk factors compelled Dr. Kim Eagle to contribute with a solution in 2004 through the co-founding of the Project Healthy Schools program. Dr. Eagle is the Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine and director of the Samuel and Jean Frankel Cardiovascular Center at Michigan Medicine. He graduated from Oregon State University in 1976 and from Tufts University Medical School in 1979. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital from 1979 to 1983 followed by research and clinical fellowships in cardiology and health services research at Harvard Medical School and The Massachusetts General Hospital from 1983 through 1986. From 1986 to 1994, Dr. Eagle served The Massachusetts General Hospital where he was promoted to associate director of Clinical Cardiology and associate professor of Medicine at Harvard.

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Project Healthy Schools Manager
Jean DuRussel-Weston is responsible for the overall direction, growth and sustainability of Project Healthy Schools (PHS) in over 50 schools. PHS is a middle-school-based program designed to prevent childhood obesity and its long-term health risks. The program encourages healthy habits through education, environmental change and measurement across the State of Michigan.

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Project Healthy Schools Supporting Staff
Development
Research
Additional Research
Patsy Bruenger, BA, CCRC
Caren Goldberg, MD
Elizabeth A. Jackson, MD, MPH
Eva Kline-Rogers, RN, NP, AAC
Dan Montgomery
Karen E. Peterson, Sc.D.
Tom M. Reischl, Ph.D.
Brian Shensky, BS
Advisory Board
Alan Weder
Albert Berriz
Beverly Stone
Bill Moeller
Bill Wetsman
Florine Mark
Janis Wetsman
Katherine Goldberg
Kitty Moeller
Michelle Parker
Myra Weiss
Robert Galardi
Sheryl Fellows
Zina Kramer
