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Strength Training and Aging with Prof. Maria Fiatarone Singh! 879
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Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh is a geriatrician whose research, clinical, and teaching career has focused on the integration of medicine, exercise physiology, and nutrition as a means to improve health status and quality of life across the lifespan.
She has held the inaugural John Sutton Chair of Exercise and Sport Science in the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Professorship, Sydney Medical School, at the University of Sydney since 1999.
Prof. Singh has designed and carried out many clinical trials and longitudinal studies in Australia, the USA, and abroad, including large multi-center trials of exercise and chronic disease prevention and treatment. She is a pioneer in several organizations who are investigating genetic contributions to performance, adaptation and exercise treatment of chronic disease.
She has published extensively in the area of health implications of exercise and nutrition, having authored and edited a book, 170+ peer-reviewed journal articles, 100+ peer-reviewed book chapters, position stands, review articles, and 400+ abstracts. She is currently supervising 7 postgraduate students/fellows in studies of musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiovascular and metabolic disease and aging.
Find Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh at-
https://www.strongmedicine.org.au/
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