Skip to main content
GSA 2024 Main banner
Icon Legend
This session is not in your schedule.
This session is in your schedule. Click again to remove it.
Back

Kristen Beavers, PhD, MPH, RD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Kristen M. Beavers, PhD, MPH, RD, is a Professor of Internal Medicine, Section of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She received her BS from Cornell University in Human Biology, Health, and Society; MPH and RD from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Nutrition; and PhD from Baylor University in Exercise, Nutrition, and Preventive Health. Dr. Beavers’ academic and professional interests lie in the study of nutrition and exercise as interdisciplinary sciences, specifically as they relate to prevention and etiology of chronic disease and disability. She has been continuously funded by the NIH for the past decade and has developed a strong research program focused on mitigating loss of bone mass and strength in persons undergoing intentional weight loss, with three NIH-funded clinical trials underway. In addition, she is an Associate Director of the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Prevention and co-leads the Clinical Research Core of the Wake Forest Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. Dr. Beavers sincerely enjoys the art of team building and leveraging her position/resources to develop projects and people that make meaningful contributions to science.

Disclosure information not submitted.

Presentation(s):

Email Kristen