Dr. Robert Backus
Nutritional basis of obesity in cats.

Dr. Stephan Ball
Improvements in the determination of human body fat percentage.

Dr. JoAnne Banks-Wallace
Methods to improve the health of Afro-American women.

Kalea Benner, MSW, LCSW
Counseling services for children, adolescents, and families.

Dr. Edward Blaine
The role of physical inactivity in the neuroendocrine regulation of fluid balance and cardiovascular function in patients with hypertension and heart failure.

Dr. Frank Booth
Identify the genes and their function by which physical inactivity signals insulin resistance and muscle wasting in old skeletal muscle.

Dr. Doug Bowles
The mechanisms by which physical inactivity produces an enhanced vasoconstriction of coronary blood vessels.

Dr. Dale Brigham
Community-based physical activity and nutrition interventions to prevent obesity.

Dr. Marybeth Brown
The specificity of three forms of exercise for the modification of physical frailty in older adults. The interaction of aging and inactivity using an animal model.

Ann Cohen, MS, RD
Health education including exercise as a lifestyle to prevent disease in the proposed Columbia Science Museum.

Dr. Vicki Conn
Behavioral outcome studies to determine how to motivate older, chronically ill and sedentary (but ambulatory) people to exercise.

Dr. Richard Cox
Effects of exercise on mood states.

Dr. Erin Dannecker
Role of biopsychosocial factors in musculoskeletal pain, injury, and disability and issues related to exercise behavior.

Dr. Kevin Dellsperger
Cardiovascular intensive care, valvular heart disease, and echocardiography.

Dr. William Fay
Thrombosis, vascular biology, and atherosclerosis.

Dr. Greg Flaker
Director of the Division of Cardiology.

Candance Gabel, M.S., R.D.
Nutrition education for families.

Dr. Sara Gable
Childhood obesity.

Dr. Venkataseshu Ganjam
The effect of physical inactivity on insulin resistance and reproductive hormones.

Dr. David Gardner
Director of the Division of Endocrinology.

Dr. Ingolf Gruen
Analytical chemistry with applications in food composition, flavor chemistry and the influence of food ingredients on quality attributes of foods.

Dr. Kristofer Hagglund
Improving health care systems for racial and ethnic minorities and increasing health literacy. Enhancing participation among persons with disabilities.

Janet Hale, RN
Health outreach education to the public in Columbia's only shopping mall.

Dr. Marc Hamilton
Translational studies of the role physical activity and gene expression on metabolic syndrome and lipoprotein regulation in humans and animals.

Dr. Christopher Hardin
The organization and integration of metabolism in vascular smooth muscle.

Dr. Eileen Hasser
The cardiovascular reflex control of the sympathetic nervous system and blood pressure, and how these reflex systems are modulated by physical inactivity.

Melinda Hemmelgarn, Ms, RD
Diet, health and prevention of obesity; and consumer advocacy and education

Dr. Pam Hinton
The role of nutrition and physical inactivity in women's health.

Dr. Virginia Huxley
Understanding the structure and regulation of the barriers separating circulating blood from tissue in exercised trained pigs.

Dr. Salman M. Hyder
Role of Steroid Hormones in Tumor Angiogenesis; Molecular mechanisms of steroid hormone/anti hormone action.

Dr. Rebecca Johnson
Nursing interventions to assist older adults experiencing relocation transitions.

Dr. Tom LaFontaine
Promotion of community wellness through physical activity and the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Dr. M. Harold Laughlin
Understand the effects on exercise training on the coronary circulation and skeletal muscle vascular beds.

Jamal Ibdah
Fat and lipoprotein metabolism, Human exercise, Inactivity-related disorders, Nutrition/obesity

Dr. Jia Lee, , R.N.
Understanding change in physical function among older adults.

Joseph LeMaster
Diabetic foot.

Dr. Kerry McDonald
The cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the regulation of striated muscle contraction and how muscle regulatory processes are altered in disease states and exercise.

Dr. Richard Meadows
Director of the Animal Wellness Center with an interest in human-animal bonding through shared exercise times.

Dr. Marian Minor
Exercise in the treatment of arthritis.

Dr. Satish Nair
Heat stress in exercising humans.

Dr. Jo Britt-Rankin
Eating disorders, nutrition for young athletes, and the impact of nutrition education on dietary intake.

Dr. Lilliard Richardson
How public policy influences obesity and inactivity.

Dr. Leona Rubin
Understand how membrane receptors and transporters regulate intracellular messenger molecules which ultimately control cardiac and coronary smooth muscle function during exercise.

Dr. Stephen Sayers
Age-related changes in skeletal muscle and the effects of exercise on impairment, functional limitations, and physical disability.

Dr. Patricia Schnitzer
Child Abuse and Neglect; Injury Epidemiology and prevention.

Dr. Laura Schopp
Traumatic brain injury, telerehabilitation and disability informatics.

Dr. James Sowers
Cardiovascular health and metabolism

Dr. Ron Terjung
The mechanisms by which physical activity leads to meaningful adaptations that increase exercise tolerance in patients with peripheral arterial insufficiency.

Dr. Ian Thomas
Member of PedNet, which promotes and works towards making Columbia a place to walk, cycle, wheel, and skate.

Dr. Tom Thomas
The role of exercise as a modifier of blood lipid profiles in conjunction with dietary fat ingestion in humans.

Dr. John Thyfault
The links between obesity, physical inactivity and insulin resistance in skeletal muscle.

Dr. Steve Yang
Mechanisms controlling the addition of blood vessels by exercise.

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