“An Evolutionary Medicine Perspective on Physical Activity and Inactivity”

Endocrinology Grand Rounds

SPEAKER: David Raichlen, PhD, Associate Professor and Research Scientist, School of Anthropology, UA College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
TOPIC: “An Evolutionary Medicine Perspective on Physical Activity and Inactivity”

Dr. Raichlen joined the faculty in the UA School of Anthropology in 2006 as an assistant professor. Before that, he was a post-doctoral research fellow and instructor in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. He has been an associate editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology since 2013, on the editorial board of Nature Publishing’s Scientific Reports since 2012, and is a past associate editor of the Journal  of Human Evolution (2009-12). He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor’s degree in biological anthropology and anatomy from Duke University. His lab focuses on understanding how human beings' unique evolutionary history explains modern human physiological variation and how we can use an evolutionary context to improve health and well-being today.

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC & COMMUNITY PROVIDERS
This lecture series was renewed in September 2016 by the UA Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism. The talks are open to the public, community physicians and other health-care providers interested in learning more on these subjects. They take place on the second Tuesdays of the month – same time and place.