The Beverage Institute Staff - Bios

Carolyn Moore, PH.D, R.D.
Principal Scientist

Carolyn Moore, Ph.D., R.D. is the principle scientist liaison with the Texas Medical Center for The Beverage Institute for Health & Wellness at The Coca-Cola Company.

Since 1999, Dr. Moore has been helping to lead the juice and juice drink nutrition innovation for The Coca-Cola Company and The Minute Maid Company. Dr. Moore established the first Nutrition Advisory Board for The Minute Maid Company. She has overseen several clinical trials demonstrating new beverage product efficacy, including a multi-nutrient beverage study in Botswana, a multi-nutrient beverage bioavailability study in Peru, a vitamin D bioavailability study in orange juice, and two studies using plant sterols in orange juice to significantly reduce blood cholesterol.

Dr. Moore helped lead the approval of the vitamin D food additive petition that now allows vitamin D to be added to calcium fortified juices and juice drinks in the United States. She was also responsible for submitting a petition to the Food and Drug Administration to include both vitamin D and calcium in the osteoporosis risk reduction health claim. She is leading a project to re-analyze the vitamin D content of the U.S. food supply and to update the Standard Reference nutrient database in collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture. In addition, Dr. Moore's responsibilities continue to include supporting marketing and innovation efforts in the area of noncarbonated beverages on a global basis.

Dr. Moore has 20 years of health care experience in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, as a faculty member of the Program in Nutrition and Dietetics for the University of Texas, director of Nutrition of an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation and diabetes research center, and manager of Clinical Nutrition for The Methodist Hospital.

Dr. Moore has a Doctoral degree in Public Health in Nutrition Sciences from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Bachelors and Masters degree from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2001, Dr. Moore completed her Masters in Business Administration at Rice University, Houston, Texas.