Research Interests
- Human cardiovascular and metabolic health responses to clinical-, occupational-, and lifestyle-related factors, i.e., chronic disease or health conditions, workplace and other occupation-specific stressors, exercise and physical activity (or lack thereof), sleep (quality and quantity), chronotype, among others
- Cardiovascular and metabolic health among occupational groups, minority populations, and underserved communities
- Exercise prescription to optimize cardiometabolic health biomarkers using patient- and population level data
- Meta-Analysis
- Evidence-based Methodology
Research Collaborations
I collaborate with many different faculty and labs both within Kinesiology and across campus, including (but not limited to):
- Dr. Elroy Aguiar, Co-Director of CHAPAL
- Dr. Kevin Crombie, The Exercise Psychology Laboratory
- Dr. Adam Knowlden, SLUMBRx Lab
- Dr. Lee Winchester, Director, of the Tactical Performance Lab (TPL) located at the Alabama Fire College
- Dr. Edward Sazanov, Computer Laboratory of Ambient and Wearable Systems (CLAWS)
- Dr. Jonathan Wingo, TEMP Lab