Kristen Marie Beavers

• Research Professor of Health and Exercise Science, Wake Forest University

Kristen M. Beavers, PhD, MPH, RD, is a Research Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Wake Forest University and a Professor 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 15 years and has developed a strong research program focused on mitigating loss of bone mass and strength in persons undergoing intentional weight loss. Administratively, Dr. Beavers 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, the Clinical and Translational Science Pilot Program, and the Translational Training Program in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Related Disorders. 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.

• –present Research Professor of Health and Exercise Science, Wake Forest University

• 2009 Baylor University, Exercise, Nutrition, and Preventive Health

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