Glen Duncan
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology |
Contact Information
Box 353410
Nutritional Sciences Program
305 Raitt Hall
Seattle, WA 98195
Tel: 206–616–2680
Fax: 206–685–1696
duncag@u.washington.edu
Education
| MS | Ball State University, 1994 Exercise Physiology |
| PhD | University of Tennessee, 1997 Education (Concentration in Exercise Science) |
Research Interests
Dr. Duncan's research interests include: (1) relationships among cardiovascular fitness, body fatness, and metabolic disease (e.g., metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes); (2) lifestyle interventions involving increased habitual physical activity and/or exercise training and dietary modifications in the prevention and treatment of metabolic and cardiovascular disease; and, (3) non-biological determinants of physical activity and obesity (e.g., access, income, and the physical environment).
Teaching Interests
Diet and human evolution, nutrition-related biobehavioral influences on human growth, development, and disease resistance
Dr. Duncan teaches Research Design in Autumn Quarter and Physical Activity in Health & Disease in Spring Quarter.
In The News
Living Well: The perfect body weight is not a figure carved in stone
(Seattle PI, 05/05/2008)
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