FACULTY
genevieve.albouy@health.utah.edu
(Office) 801-581-7558
HPER N, Room 258
REASEARCH INTERESTS: Modulating the neurophysiological processes underlying motor learning and sleep-related motor memory consolidation in order to optimize motor behavior in healthy populations.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Motor Behavior
Sleep and Motor Memory Lab
(Office) 801-587-0482
HPER N, Room 204
REASERCH INTERESTS: Physical activity and fitness assessment and epidemiology, school-based youth activity and healthy eating promotion, validation of consumer and research activity monitors, and behavior change with technology.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Epidemiology, Physical Activity Epidemiology
(Office) 801-581-4512
Stewart, Room 118A
TEACHING INTERESTS: EMS Instructor, EMS Ethics, Diversity, and Law, Anatomy & Physiology for Health
(Office) 801-587-7900
HPER N, Room 252
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Design and implementation of physical activity and health programs. Secondarily, the surveillance of physical activity as well as physical activity measurement issues.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Foundations of Health and Kinesiology
(Office) 801-695-5035
HPER N, Room 251
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Developing prediction models to estimate aerobic capacity in adolescents, developing optimal low back pain assessment in adolescents, cross-validating prediction models, modeling physical activity behaviors during physical education, and examining the efficacy of comprehensive school physical activity programing.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Design and Analysis, Application of Human Motor Development Across the Lifespan
(Office) 801-585-1119
HPER N, Room 205
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Investigating effect of physical activity and nutrition on various health outcomes. Physical activity, fitness, and sedentary behavior in relation to metabolic risk factors, obesity and other health outcomes. Developing and implementing interventions to promote physical activity and healthy eating.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Physical Activity Interventions, Introduction to Research Methods
Physical Activity Lab
(Office) 801-581-4512
Stewart, Room 117B
TEACHING INTERESTS: Medical Terminology, First Aid & CPR, EMS Planning & Evaluation,
(Office) 801-213-1362
HPER N, Room 250
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Integrating principles from exercise science and sports nutrition across the cancer continuum to optimize body composition, physical function and conditioning, and improve related biomarkers linked with cancer risk and progression.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Exercise Physiology, Exercise in the Context of Chronic Disease
(Office) 801-581-2275
HPER N, Room 245
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Investigating how insufficient sleep and circadian disruption contributes to risk of metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes, with long-term goal of developing sleep and circadian based interventions that improve metabolic health.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Sleep & Circadian Physiology and Disease
Sleep and Circadian Physiology Lab
Stewart, Room 101B
TEACHING INTERESTS: Health and Diversity, Teaching Health in Secondary Education, Stress Management
(Office) 801-213-1363
HPER N, Room 200
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Improving mobility during daily life in people with neurological dysfunction, particularly those with brain injuries. Using core concepts from biomechanics and motor control, my lab concentrates on functionally relevant balance that is typical during daily life.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Advanced Biomechanics, Instrumentation and Measurement in Movement Science.
Neuromechanics and Applied Locomotion Lab
julia.franklin@health.utah.edu
(Office) 801-581-7289
Stewart, Room 102A
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Resilience, disordered eating (from clinical eating disorders to obesity), and body image. Having studied eating disturbances and body image concerns in Division I athletes and examined the relationship between resilience and eating disorder risks in female college students.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Eating Disorders & Body Image, Introduction to Grant Writing, Program Evaluation, Health Program Planning II, Introduction to Research and Assessment, Program Planning.
(Office) 801-581-7734
HPER N, Room 256
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Clarify the role of exercise in the prevention of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease and to discover and implement effective ways to enable positive behavior change for improving health and wellness.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Exercise Physiology, Physical Activity Epidemiology, Aging and Exercise
(Office) 801-585-9927
Stewart, Room 101
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Psychosocial health and well-being in high-level athletes. Resilience and adversarial growth to sport stressors for high-level athletes and body image and disordered body change behaviors in high-level athletes.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Community Health Issues, Prevention Practices, Applied Behavior Change, Foundations of Health Education, Facilitating Healthy Behavior, Exercise Psychology
(Office) 801-587-8956
HPER N, Room 253
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Impact of vascular aging on blood flow regulation in older humans, and whether physical activity can prevent the onset of cardiovascular disease in this population.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Kinesiology, Exercise physiology Lab
Human Performance Lab
(Office) 801-581-3785
Stewart, Room 111B
TEACHING INTERESTS: High-Angle Rescue Techniques and Theory, Advanced High-Angle Rescue Techniques and Theory, Swiftwater Rescue
(Office) 801-213-1363
HPR N, Room 202
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Appetite regulation, particularly in response to exercise, and development of interventions to improve weight loss maintenance and cardiometabolic health.
(Office) 801-581-4512
Stewart, Room 118B
TEACHING INTERESTS: EMT Training, EMT Recertification
(Office) 801-987-0606
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Applied health technology, mobile application development, augmented & virtual reality for health, and digital health interventions.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Health Communication & Teaching, Introduction to Android App Making, Behavior Changing Technology, Theory and Habit Technology
HPER N, Room 246
RESEARCH INTERESTS: The motor system as a model to investigate the neuroplasticity underlying learning and memory processes across the human lifespan, with emphases on childhood and older adulthood. This research utilizes multiple motor learning paradigms as well as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to assess learning-dependent neuroplasticity.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Application of Human Motor Development Across the Lifespan
Lifespan Motor Neuroscience Lab
(Office) 801-581-7964
HPER N, Room 255
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Inform and evaluate policies and interventions for tobacco use prevention and cessation. Specializing in youth adults use of non-cigarette tobacco products. Cancer prevention and health promotion, including skin cancer and obesity prevention.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Community Health Issues
(Office) 801-581-7809
HPER N, Room 254
TEACHING INTERESTS: Introduction to Coaching, Perspectives on Sport and American Society, Promoting Physical Activity in the Community, PE for Individuals with Disabilities
jennifer.lehmbeck@health.utah.edu
(Office) 801-581-3481
Stewart, Room 103C
TEACHING INTERESTS: Human Sexuality, Health Program Planning I, Health Practicum II, Global Health Promotion, Prevention Practices
anita.leopardi@health.utah.edu
(Office) 801-585-1081
Stewart, Room 106
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Chronic disease prevention, health concerns of women, school and community health.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Healthy Lifestyles, Health Practicum I & II
(Office) 801-581-4729
HPER N, Room 203
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Optimizing the experience and motivation of individuals in physical activity settings. In doing so, I have examined how both dispositional goals and perceptions of the setting influence such outcomes as anxiety, enjoyment, cognitions, and character development.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Foundations of Health and Kinesiology, Exercise Psychology, Graduate Seminar.
(Office) 801-680-3098
HPER N, Room 201
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Psychosocial factors influencing injury risk and recovery as well as interventions focused on improving rehabilitation outcomes in various groups. Secondarily, psychosocial factors influencing physical activity initiation and maintenance across the lifespan.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Sport Psychology
(Office) 801-581-3785
Stewart, Room 121
TEACHING INTERESTS: Avalanche Rescue Techniques and Theory, Swiftwater Rescue Techniques and Theory, High-Angle Rescue Techniques and Theory, Advanced High-Angle Rescue
glenn.richardson@health.utah.edu
(Office) 801-581-8039
Stewart, Room 107
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Creativity in health promotion teaching and communicating, resiliency as a process that disrupts people out of adapted states of biopsychospiritual homeostasis which potentially prepares and readies them through states of humility to experience infusions of desired virtues and qualities. Resilience as "an innate force that progressively drives and guides people to increase their capacities by receiving infusions of desired qualities and virtues".
TEACHING INTERESTS: Stress Management, Applied Resiliency, Personal Resiliency
(Office) 801-585-5107
HPER N, Room 206
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Physical activity and women's health.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Aging and Exercise, Honors Thesis
(Office) 801-585-5971
HPER N, Room 262
TEACHING INTERESTS: Exercise Psychology, Promoting Physical Activity in the Community, Motor Behavior, PE for Individuals with Disabilities
chris.stratford@health.utah.edu
(Office) 801-581-2305
Stewart, Room 117A
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Prehospital and in-hospital cardiac arrest, basic life support, advanced cardiac life support, prehospital emergency care and emergency nursing care.
TEACHING INTERESTS: Advanced EMT, Meds, Drugs, and EMS, Pathophysiology for EMS
(Office) 801-585-7325
HPER E 217
TEACHING INTERESTS: Community Health, EMS, OSH, and Kinesiology Internships, PEAK Health and Fitness
(Office) 801-587-0501
HPER N, Room 249
TEACHING INTERESTS: Biomechanics, Exercise Programming: Assessment & Delivery, Work, Wellness & the Great Outdoors
(Phone) 435-901-2447
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Sports psychology, sports performance, skills acquisition, motor learning, human performance, cognitive science, biomechanics, perceptual-cognitive expertise.
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Hello, I am the Graduate Studies Program Manager, assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies, and the HK liaison to the Graduate School. This includes, processing and maintaining all graduate student applications and handling the admissions processes. I coordinate Graduate Student hiring and contracting. I provide Graduate Student advising, coordinate graduate student requirements, tuition benefits/funding, student office spaces, petitions, scheduling, permission codes, registration, and records. I also maintain the Graduate Canvas page and schedule/coordinate Graduate student events. I currently hold a dual position with the Department of Health and Kinesiology and the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism. I am honored to be a part of two excellent teams!
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