Online
Co-organiziers Leigh Frame, PhD, MHS, at leighframe@gwu.edu or 202-994-0184, or Brett Shook, PhD, at brettshook@gwu.edu or 202-994-1285
Join us for the GW Biomedical Cross-disciplinary Seminar Series: Connecting Academic Research & Inquiry Across Disciplines. This virtual lecture series explores a new cross-disciplinary topic each year. The goal is to promote networking and collaboration in translational health among researchers, health care providers, and policy makers from different disciplines to shift the paradigm—from seeking a cure to developing a strategy of prevention. The 2021-22 seminar series topic is metabolic syndrome.
This lecture is on aging, insulin resistance, and the role of physical activity (especially post-meal PA) on mitigating this risk. The speaker is Loretta DiPietro, PhD, MPH, Professor, Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, GW Milken Institute School of Public Health.
Recognizing that many of today's critical public health problems can be addressed, at least partly, through improved nutrition and physical activity, Dr. DiPietro has built bridges between population-based public health and the clinical and physiological domains of exercise science. An accomplished and widely published researcher with particular interest in the role of physical activity in the health of older adults, she has been awarded grants from the National Institute on Aging and the American Cancer Society, and has lectured at medical schools, public health schools, and other organizations around the world. Dr. DiPietro joined GW SPH in 2008 from Yale University School of Medicine, where she was associate professor of epidemiology and public health and a fellow at the John B. Pierce Laboratory, which studies how biological systems interact with the built environment and their influence on health.