Education
College of William and Mary, 1992, BS, Kinesiology; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994, MS, Exercise Physiology, University of South Carolina, 1999, PhD, Public Health (Exercise Science), University of Washington, 2001, MPH, Epidemiology.
Professional Area
Lifestyle behaviors and cancer prevention and control; obesity research; physical activity and nutrition research; cancer etiology and outcomes; cancer biomarkers; metabolic and inflammatory markers related to cancer risk and survival; randomized controlled trials; prospective cohort studies.
Citation
Internationally recognized for seminal contributions to the field of lifestyle behaviors and cancer prevention and control, and for testing associations between obesity, weight loss, physical activity and diet on cancer outcomes in cancer patients and survivors, that led to the development of national guidelines and policy statements.