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Joan Dorn

She completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the American Heart Association. Research Interests: My research interests focus on cardiovascular disease epidemiology (CVD), particularly the role of physical activity in heart disease prevention. Most recently I have developed an ultrasound laboratory to study carotid intima media thickness as a marker of structural sub-clinical CVD and brachial artery reactivity as a marker of functional sub-clinical CVD.

Expertise:

• The relationship between physical activity and mortatlity, specifically from heart disease
• Research presented at professional meetings shows that physical activity does not extend your life if you are obese, and that being obese by itself is a risk factor for death from all causes and from coronary heart disease, even if a person is otherwise healthy
• Research in 1999 showed that men men recovering from a heart attack who are at highest risk of a second attack are the least likely to comply with an exercise program

Dorn holds a five-year First Independent Research Support and Transition Award from the National Institutes of Health.