Faculty: Exercise Physiology
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- Cynthia Bartok
- Assistant Professor of Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Body composition assessment in children and adults, relationship between growth patterns early in life and later risk for obesity, emergence of motor control and locomotion in children, weight management in adults and sports nutrition.
- Mary Jane De Souza
- Professor of Kinesiology and Co-Director, Women’s Health and Exercise Laboratories
- Research Interests: Women's health and physical activity; endocrinology of the female athlete; effects of exercise on the menstrual cycle;
female athlete triad (eating disorders, amenorrhea and osteoporosis);
eating behaviors, food intake, and exercise; luteal phase defects and amenorrhea; bone health and osteoporosis in female athletes; and energy deficiency and bone health.
- W. Larry Kenney
- Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Environmental and exercise physiology, particularly human thermoregulation, skin blood flow, and the biophysics of heat exchange.
- Donna H. Korzick
- Associate Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Post-menopausal women, aging and cardiovascular disease risk; animal models of estrogen deficiency, ischemia-reperfusion injury and cardioprotection with a particular emphasis on estrogen receptors, PKC-dependent signaling and exercise.
- James A. Pawelczyk
- Associate Professor of Physiology and Kinesiology
- Research Interests:Neural control of the circulation, particularly skeletal muscle blood flow, as it is affected by exercise or spaceflight.
- David N. Proctor
- Associate Professor of Kinesiology, Physiology, and Medicine
- Research Interests: Physiology of aging and exercise; regulation of skeletal muscle blood flow; cardiovascular responses to exercise; skeletal muscle adaptation; vascular adaptation.
- Nancy I. Williams
- Associate Professor of Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Exercise physiology, effects of alterations in energy balance on reproductive function, neuroendocrinology, metabolism, clinical issues pertaining to women's health and reproductive status, i.e., hypothalamic amenorrhea, bone loss, breast cancer.