Faculty and staff experts list
Associate Professor
Interim Department Chair
Department of Foundational Sciences
School of Dental Medicine
Areas of expertise: effects of exercise during pregnancy on the health of the child before and after birth, e.g. body composition, heart and neuromotor measures; attenuating the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease of women and children
Professor
Department of Kinesiology
College of Health and Human Performance
Areas of expertise: biomechanics, locomotion – walking and running, knee function and health, muscle function, skeletal loads and stresses, biomechanics of human movement, biomechanics of human locomotion, biomechanics associated with aging, obesity and osteoarthritis, neuromuscular-skeletal function
Associate Professor
Family and Consumer Sciences
Human Development and Family Science
College of Health and Human Performance
Areas of expertise: obesity and related health behaviors, religiosity, personal finance management, parent-child education, immigrant families
Professor
Department of Public Health
Brody School of Medicine
Areas of expertise: obesity, nutrition, health behavior
Professor, Department of Kinesiology
Director, ECU Human Performance Lab
College of Health and Human Performance
Areas of expertise: exercise and obesity, STRIDE research grant
Professor
Department of Kinesiology
College of Health and Human Performance
Areas of expertise: bioenergetics, skeletal muscle metabolism, obesity, diabetes, exercise physiology, skeletal muscle glucose/lipid metabolism, gender/racial differences in metabolism, mitochondria-peroxisomal interactions, exercise (human and rodent models; molecular (in vivo, in vitro), integrative physiology)