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| Biography: Timothy Church, MD, PhD, MPH |
 Dr. Church is a Professor, the John S. McIllhenny Endowed Chair of Health Wisdom and is the director of the Laboratory of Preventive Medicine at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dr. Church earned his Medical Degree and PhD (structural and cellular biology) from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed a residency in preventive medicine at Tulane during which time he obtained a Masters in Public Health. He is Board Certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. He is a PI, Co-I, or Investigator on a number of NIH grants, most of which address issues related to exercise and health including exercise and the treatment of depression, exercise and cancer survivorship, and exercise and maintenance of function in the elderly.
Dr. Church has a particular interest in the role of exercise in the modulation of nontraditional CHD risk factors such as C-reactive protein, heart rate variability, and visceral fat. He is an author on more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and has received several awards for his research. |
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