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Professor Janz has joined the American Medical Association’s Editorial Board for the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. She will uniquely represent the area of physical activity and children’s health outcomes - a rapidly developing focus of medical research. Click here to see the...
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Sharon Tucker, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, to the Steering Committee of the University of Iowa Obesity Initiative. Dr. Tucker is the Director for Research and Evidence-Based Practice in the Department of Nursing Services & Patient Care at University of Iowa...
Professor Kathleen Janz has been appointed to represent the National Academy of Kinesiology on an ad hoc committee to develop a national initiative to increase physical activity on college campuses. She will be working with representatives of the American College of Sports Medicine and American...
Given the health consequences for individuals and the economic burden of health care for society, the lack of physical activity and increased prevalence of obesity are major areas of interest for researchers, health practitioners and the public. There is substantial evidence that both the lack of...
We are pleased to announce two new appointments to the Steering Committee of the University of Iowa Obesity Research and Education Initiative. William G. Haynes , M.B.Ch.B, M.D., Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. Bill is an NIH funded investigator and a leader in the clinical...
The UI Obesity Surgery program recently received a renewal of its designation as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence from the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery and the Surgical Review Corporation. Designation as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence signals to health care...
The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has awarded investigators in the University of Iowa College of Public Health a three-year, $750,000 grant to expand a study of health and fitness among youth in Muscatine, Iowa. The new grant will establish Choosing Healthy Actions in Muscatine Public Schools (...
Twenty new faculty will be hired in seven different colleges to work jointly with existing faculty at the University of Iowa to study both the challenges of the obesity epidemic and the expanding needs of the study of genetics and genomics. The two areas of study are the newest approved endeavors...