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Barry Braun
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Health and Exercise Science
Type-2 Diabetes, Breast Cancer
Barry Braun, head of the Department of Health and Exercise Science, is the executive director of the Human Performance Clinical Research Lab. His research program is focused on optimizing the use of exercise to prevent and/or manage type-2 diabetes, the role of exercise in preventing recurrence of breast cancer and the impact of activity and inactivity on hormonal regulation of appetite.
He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed research articles in journals such as the American Journal of Physiology, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Journal of Applied Physiology.
Braun is a Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology and the American College of Sports Medicine, and a past chairperson of its Nutrition Interest Group. He has received several awards for undergraduate teaching, including the highest honor from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, its Distinguished Teaching Award.
Braun received his Ph.D. in nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley, and did four years of post-doctoral work at the Stanford University Medical School.
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Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
Warner College of Natural Resources
Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
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