The CMER Team

  • Andrea Rosanoff
    Andrea Rosanoff
    Ph.D. Creator and Director
  • Emily Young-Campbell
    Emily Young-Campbell
    M.D. Research Fellow
  • Mike Plesset
    Mike Plesset
    Sr. Research Fellow and CMER’s Statistician
  • Taylor C. Wallace
    Taylor C. Wallace
    Ph.D., CFS, FACN Research Fellow
  • Rebecca Costello
    Rebecca Costello
    Ph.D.
  • Sherrie Colaneri
    Sherrie Colaneri
    Postdoctoral fellow
Andrea Rosanoff
Ph.D. Creator and Director

In 1982, Andrea Rosanoff received her Ph.D. degree in Nutrition with a minerals focus from the University of California at Berkeley.

In 1985, Dr. Andrea Rosanoff was invited to give a short commentary upon an environmental technology proposal that included magnesium.  To prepare, she went to the library to learn what she could about magnesium and was surprised to find research that linked nutritional magnesium both clinically and in population studies to heart disease — the largest killer in her country, the United States.  These were links she had not learned about during her graduate education which specialized in the nutritional minerals.  Her interest piqued, Dr. Rosanoff kept reading about magnesium every chance she got at her jobs as Senior Chemical Information Specialist at Dialog Information Services and as Information Analyst at Chevron Research & Technology Corporation.  At both jobs she became adept at online searching of the peer reviewed scientific literature, a skill which serves her well today as an Independent Scholar  with expertise in Nutritional Magnesium.

By the late 1990’s, Dr. Rosanoff ‘s “hobby” evolved into co-authorship  with Dr. Mildred Seelig in the writing of “The Magnesium Factor”, a book on magnesium and heart disease, and from there to original research and publication in scientific journals.   In 2005, Dr. Rosanoff formed the Center for Magnesium Education & Research, LLC, and this organization went non-profit in 2020 as CMER Center for Magnesium Education & Research.  The center conducts research into all aspects of nutritional magnesium and attempts to inform the world of their findings.

Emily Young-Campbell
M.D. Research Fellow

Emily Young Campbell, MD is a Research Fellow at the Center. She is a recent graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina and is completing her residency in Internal Medicine at Dartmouth. She also has a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of South Carolina. Prior to completing medical school, Emily managed several industry-sponsored clinical research trials investigating both new drugs and devices. She has an interest in studying nutritional interventions in treating and preventing human disease.

Mike Plesset
Sr. Research Fellow and CMER’s Statistician

Michael Plesset did undergraduate and graduate work in mathematics.  Mike has had over 60 years’ experience in applied mathematics, statistics, and computer software and hardware.  He worked in technical and management positions at the Cal Tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory for 19 years, where he was Director of Computing and Information Systems. He later worked at The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit corporation providing technology consultation to the U.S.Air Force, and three early stage companies in the personal computer industry. He developed a Monte Carlo technique for solving complex problems with multiple statistical variables. He has testified as an expert witness on computer matters in two cases in U.S. Federal Court. He lives in San Gabriel, California with his wife Shu Mei.

Taylor C. Wallace
Ph.D., CFS, FACN Research Fellow

Taylor C. Wallace, PhD, CFS, FACN is the Principal & CEO at the Think Healthy Group and a Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at George Mason University. Prior to founding the Think Healthy Group, Dr. Wallace served as the Senior Director of Science Policy and Government Relations at the National Osteoporosis Foundation and previously in senior leadership roles at the Council for Responsible Nutrition and the North American Branch of the International Life Sciences Institute.

He has extensive experience in developing and implementing comprehensive and evidence-based science, policy and legislative programs in the fields of nutrition and food science. His academic research interests are in nutritional interventions (micronutrient and dietary bioactive components) to promote health and prevent the onset of chronic disease.

Dr. Wallace’s background includes a PhD and an MS in Food Science and Nutrition from The Ohio State University and a BS in Food Science and Technology from the University of Kentucky. He is a regularly sourced mainstream media expert, most frequently on the Dr. Oz Show and NBC4 Washington.  In his free time, he manages and operates a large food and nutrition blog (www.DrTaylorWallace.com) that provides science-based nutrition, food safety, and food technology information to the public and consumer media. Dr. Wallace has served on numerous Boards, most recently the Alliance for Food and Health, Institute of Food Technologists, Feeding Tomorrow, Phi Tau Sigma Honor Society, and the Capital Pride Alliance.  He is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Magnesium Education and Research and a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (ACN).

In 2015, Dr. Wallace received the Charles A. Regus Award, given by the ACN for original research in the field of nutrition.  He currently serves as Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Dietary Supplements, and Deputy Editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.  Dr. Wallace has published six academic textbooks and authored over 40 peer reviewed manuscripts and book chapters.

See why The Huffington Post called Dr. Taylor Wallace “the nations premier food and nutrition guru

Rebecca Costello
Ph.D.

Rebecca Bortz Costello, Ph.D., researched and wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on Magnesium status in patients with heart disease. She has retained her avid interest in Magnesium ever since. Dr. Costello retired from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) in September 2011 where she served as Director of Grants and Extramural Activities and continues to work with ODS as a part-time scientific consultant.

Prior to her NIH appointment, Dr. Costello was with the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences, serving as Project Director for the Committee on Military Nutrition Research. Her work focused on evaluating the nutritional adequacy and use of nutritional supplements for sustaining and enhancing performance in military personnel.

Dr. Costello believes her most rewarding job was when she served as a Research Associate and Program Director for the Risk Factor Reduction Center, a referral center at the Washington Adventist Hospital for the detection, modification, and prevention of cardiovascular disease through dietary and/or drug interventions.

Dr. Costello received a B.S. and M.S. in biology from the American University, Washington, D.C., and a Ph.D. in clinical nutrition from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1994. Her clinical research focused on the assessment of magnesium status in patients with congestive heart failure.

Dr. Costello maintains active membership in the American Society for Nutrition, American Heart Association, Society for the Development of Research on Magnesium, and the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. She is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. She continues to write and review articles for professional journals, and has been an invited speaker at numerous professional meetings.

She is totally enthusiastic to work with the team of scientists at CMER to promote the science and explore aspects of magnesium’s role in maintaining health and in disease prevention.

Sherrie Colaneri
Postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Sherrie Colaneri Day, DNP, FNP, MSN, Family Medicine,  Certified CDL/DOT Medical Examiner is a graduate of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at Keiser University of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Dr. Colaneri Day received her Master of Science degree from the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware in Family Practice. Currently, she is the president and a primary care clinician of her  private practice in Southern New Jersey 20 years .

Her interests in improving patient care outcomes in primary care led to her doctoral research project on the “Lack of Knowledge of Health Care Providers on Magnesium Deficiency.” Through this scholarly project her goal was and is to continue to educate health care providers and patients. Her future studies will be directed at improving patient healthcare outcomes related to common illnesses associated with the recognition and management of magnesium deficiency.