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About the Lifelong Exercise Institute's Executive Director, Dr. Sheri Colberg
Author, Lecturer, Researcher, Professor, Exercise
Physiologist, and Expert on Exercise & Diabetes!
Sheri
Colberg, PhD is an
author, exercise physiologist, researcher, and professor
of exercise science at Old
Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She was also appointed as adjunct professor of internal medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School, also in Norfolk..
Having earned her undergraduate degree from
Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of
California, Berkeley, she specializes in research on diabetes
and exercise and continues to conduct extensive clinical
research specifically in type 2 diabetes and exercise
with funding from the American Diabetes Association (ADA)
and others. She has authored eight books, along with 175 research and educational articles on physical activity, diabetes, healthy lifestyles, nutrition, successful aging, and more.
In addition to her many credentials, including working as an exercise specialist in a diabetes treatment center and conducting exercise-related research on people with diabetes, Dr. Colberg has over 40 years' worth of practical experience as a (type 1) diabetic exerciser and person living with diabetes. She is currently heading up the revision of a position stand on "Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes" jointly for the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Diabetes Association (due out in 2010), as well as representing the American Diabetes Association as an organizational partner in the implementation of the National Physical Activity Plan for Americans.
A frequent lecturer on diabetes and exercise across the nation to both professional and lay audiences, she is also a reviewer for many diabetes- and exercise-related scientific journals, grants, and books, a member of two diabetes publications’advisory boards, an editorial board member for Insulin, an advisory board member for Quality Health.com, a columnist and medical advisory board member for dLife -- For Your Diabetes Life (online at www.dLife.com and dLife TV on CNBC), a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, and a professional member of the ADA, a member of the Board of Directors for the Diabetes Exercise & Sports Association, as well as a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
Dr. Colberg currently resides with her family in Virginia Beach, Virginia. An avid recreational exerciser,
she enjoys swimming, biking, walking, fitness machines, tennis, racquetball,
weight training, hiking, and yard work, as well as playing with her
three (usually) active sons.
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