Amy Kimball, MPT, PhD, ATC

Clinical Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science

Current Positions

Acute responses to passive heat stress on systemic glucose metabolism in healthy and at-risk populations
Stress modulation of metabolic adaptations in healthy and at-risk populations
Systemic metabolic adaptations to carefully-dosed “activity based” interventions in humans with spinal cord injury

Physical Therapy #02905, Iowa Department of Public Health Bureau of Professional Licensure (Board of Physical and Occupational Therapy), Iowa, United States
Certified Athletic Trainer, NATABOC, Iowa, United States

Kimball AL, Petrie MA, McCue PM, Johnson KA, Shields RK. Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Visceral Adipose Tissue Thickness among Lean and Non-Lean People with and without Spinal Cord Injury. J Funct Morphol Kinesiol. 2023 Aug 21;8(3):123. PMID: 37606417. PMCID: PMC10443282. doi: 10.3390/jfmk8030123.
Petrie MA, Kimball AL, Shields RK. Acute Low Force Electrically Induced Exercise Modulates Post Prandial Glycemic Markers in People with Spinal Cord Injury. J Funct Morphol Kinesiol. 2022 Oct 17;7(4):89. PMID: 36278750. doi: 10.3390/jfmk7040089.
Kimball, A. L., McCue, P. M., Petrie, M. A. & Shields, R. K. (2018). Whole body heat exposure modulates acute glucose metabolism. Int J Hyperthermia 35 (1) 644-651. DOI: 10.1080/02656736.2018.1516303. PMID: 30303421.
Woelfel, J. R., Kimball, A. L., Yen, C. L. & Shields, R. K. (2017). Low-Force Muscle Activity Regulates Energy Expenditure after Spinal Cord Injury. Med Sci Sports Exerc 49 (5) 870-878. DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000001187. PMID: 28009786. PMCID: PMC5392173.
Petrie, M. A., Kimball, A. L., McHenry, C. L., Suneja, M., Yen, C. L., Sharma, A. & Shields, R. K. (2016). Distinct Skeletal Muscle Gene Regulation from Active Contraction, Passive Vibration, and Whole Body Heat Stress in Humans. PloS One 11 (8) e0160594. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160594. eCollection 2016.. PMID: 27486743. PMCID: PMC4972309.