Overview

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I am an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU AMC) in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes and the Director of Research Integration in the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center (AHWC). For the Colorado Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC), I serve as the Associate Director of the Energy Balance Assessment core, overseeing Doubly Labeled Water (DLW) measurements. I currently hold an NIH Career Development Award (K01 HL145023), an R56 (DK136601), and serve as co-investigator on two R01s investigating the extent to which patterns and timing of behaviors (physical activity, food intake, and sleep) influence energy metabolism, body weight regulation, and disease risk (e.g., obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease). Over the past 5 years, one of my focuses has been understanding the complex interplay between exercise and circadian physiology. In particular, I have focused on how exercise timing influences central and peripheral clock rhythms and how this may, in turn, affect energy balance, glucose regulation, and body weight regulation. We conducted one of the first analyses identifying time of day of exercise (i.e., morning vs. evening) as an important factor that influences changes in body composition, beyond the effect of the exercise dose. Since that publication, our group has published 3 additional manuscripts (2 original research, 1 review) on important considerations related to exercise timing and exercise timing consistency in weight management research.