| 174 | Tuesday, April 1, 2003 |
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| 8:15 PM-9:30 PM | Convention Center:114 Auditorium |
| Research Consortium |
| R. Tait McKenzie Lecture: The Role of Physical Activity in Successful Aging |
| Loretta DiPietro, Ph.D., M.P.H. is Associate Professor of Epidemiology at
Yale University School of Medicine and Associate Fellow at Yale’s John B. Pierce Laboratory where she is the Principal Investigator of Exercise and Aging Physiology studies. Dr. DiPietro's research interests focus on the effects of exercise training on functional adaptations in aging. Her research attempts to define some of the mechanistic underpinnings explaining the observed etiologic relationships between sedentary behavior and chronic disease risk factors such as abdominal adiposity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and glucose intolerance in older people. Her work also attempts to define the extent to which these risk factors can be modified, or even reversed, with exercise training in aging.
Dr. DiPietro received a B.S. and a M.S. degree from Southern Connecticut State University, before earning both an M.P.H. and a Ph.D. from Yale University. After completing her Ph.D., Dr. DiPietro completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the John B. Pierce Laboratory and then served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the CDC in Atlanta where she was responsible for analyzing national data that contributed to establishing the Year 2000 Objectives for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Prior to her current appointments at Yale, she served on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Among her many accomplishments, Dr. DiPietro is credited with collaborating with several other leading researchers in designing and validating a physical activity survey for use in older populations -- The Yale Physical Activity Survey. This survey currently is used worldwide in both epidemiologic and laboratory-based research. Dr. DiPietro has authored/co-authored over 50 scientific publications and serves as a reviewer and/or an editorial board member for several scientific journals. |
Keyword(s): older adult/aging issues, physical activity, research
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| Presider: Maureen R. Weiss, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
| Speaker: Loretta DiPietro, Yale University, New Haven, CT |