PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH PROMOTION LAB
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Previous Graduate Students from the Lab

Previous Ph.D. Students
  • Jodee Schaben - 2003
    Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin River Falls
  • Roxane Joens-Matre (2006)
    Assistant Professor, Des Moines University (Deceased)
  • Nina Roofe (2007)
    Assistant Professor, University of Central Arkansas
  • Darcy Johannson (2008)
    Research Assistant Professor, Pennington Institute
  • Michelle Ihmels (2009)
    Wellness Director, Boise State University
  • Jared Tucker (2010)
    Epidemiologist and researcher, Helen De Vos Children’s Hospital
  • Andres Calabro (2012)
    Youth Fitness Coordinator, Patagonia, Argentina
  • Jungmin Lee (2014)
    Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Omaha
  • Pedro Saint-Maurice (2015)
    Research Fellow at National Cancer Institute / National Institutes of Health
  • Youngwon Kim (2015)
    Assistant Professor at the University of Utah
  • Karissa Peyer, 2015
    Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee - Chattanooga
  • Yang Bai, 2016
    Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont
  • Katy DeShaw, 2019                                                                               Assistant Professor at Loras College
  • Nicholas Lamoureux (2022)
Previous M.S. Students
  • Rebecca Hammitt - Kinesiology
  • Amber Stafford - Kinesiology
  • Josh Bottorf - Kinesiology
  • Jim McClain - Kinesiology
  • Heidi Perkins - Kinesiology
  • Andres Calabro - Kinesiology
  • Travis Hartke - Kinesiology
  • Sean Waldstein (MED)
  • Pedro Saint-Maurice - Kinesiology
  • Yang Bai - Kinesiology
  • Rachel Johnson - Kinesiology
  • Nettie McGuire - Diet and Exercise
  • Katelin Blasingame - Kinesiology
  • Katie Paulson - Nutrition Science
  • Sarah Walsh (2011) - Kinesiology
  • Sarah Davis (2012) - Diet and Exercise
  • Molly Webb (2013) - Diet and  Exercise
  • Tianna Allen (2014) - Diet and Exercise
  • Erin Nelson (2014) - Nutrition Science
  • Kim Klimesh (2015) - Diet and  Exercise Program
  • Katie Bus (2015) - Nutrition Science
  • Paul Hibbing (2016) - Kinesiology

Brief Biosketches of Recent Ph.D. Students
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​Jeni Lansing


Jeni is studying how activity-related behaviors influence pain symptoms and beliefs in individuals with chronic pain conditions. She is currently working on the Exercise and Brain Health Study, Health Coach Study, and SUMIT Study.

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María Pérez 

María's research interests include the effects of exercise on mental health in clinical and non-clinical populations. She is working on the Chronic Low Back Pain Fitbit Study and the Health Coach Study. 

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Dr.Jared Tucker
Jared completed his Ph.D. in the Spring of 2010. He is currently an epidemiologist and researcher at the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI. His research interests are in health promotion and specifically the causes and consequences of obesity. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. from Brigham Young University in Exercise Science prior to coming to Iowa State. He worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences at North Dakota State University prior to this position at Helen Devos Children's Hospital.

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Joey Lee
Joey completed his Ph.D. and is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Spring.  Click here for my BIO PAGE

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Dr. Andres Calabro
 Andres completed his Ph.D. research in the Spring of 2012. His research examined the validity of the Sensewear armband monitor. He specifically coordinated a series of studies using the doubly labelled water method to evaluate validity in separate samples of children, adults and older adults. He is currently serving as the Director of Sports and Recreation for the Municipality of Puerto Madryn in Chubut Argentina


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​Katy DeShaw
Katy is working on applied behavior change studies such as the Health Coach Study and the Fit Bit Study. She oversees coordination of the ExerCYse program and is a student leader on the CYdekicks health coaching project. (Click here for my bio page).

Pedro F. Saint Maurice, Ph.D.

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Pedro completed his Ph.D. work in Spring of 2015 and continued working as a post-doctoral researcher for 2 years coordinating work on a variety of projects. His work focused on the validation of the Youth Activity Profile and the ongoing work with the Youth Physical Activity Measurement Study. He also worked on various physical activity assessment projects as well as a variety of FITNESSGRAM Research Projects (NFL PLAY 60 project, Hungary Fitness Project). .

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Dr. Jungmin Lee
Jungmin completed his Ph.D. in the Spring of 2014. He worked primarily on evaluating consumer-based activity monitors. His dissertation research examined the validity of different consumer monitors as well as the potential of using accelerometer modules in standard cell phones. He is currently working at the University of Nebraska - Omaha.

Youngwon Kim

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Youngwon completed his Ph.D in the Spring of 2015.  He worked primarily on a variety of physical activity assessment projects and completed  his dissertation research on a series of studies on the Physical Activity Measurement Survey PAMS research project. He worked for two years as a post-doc at Cambridge University in the UK and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah.

Karissa Peyer

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Karissa completed her doctoral training in the Spring of 2015 and is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennesse Chattanooga. The focus of her work while at Iowa State was on prevention of pediatric obesity. She conducted studies to re-evaluate the utility of the FNPA tool and contributed to school and clinical projects focused on using the FNPA to facilitate obesity prevention.

Yang Bai

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Yang completed her Ph.D. in the Spring of 2016 and is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont. Her work while at Iowa State focused on FITNESSGRAM related research. She contributed to the evaluation of the NFL PLAY 60 FITNESSGRAM Partnership Project, Texas FITNESSGRAM project and the Iowa FITNESSGRAM Initiative. She also advanced research in the lab on the use of consumer activity monitors and their application for behavior change. .

Michael Pereira da Silva

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Michael was a visiting Ph.D. student from Brazil that worked on the Youth Physical Activity Measurement (YPAMS) study. He also coordinated a variety of other accelerometry-based studies in the lab.

Paul Hibbing

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Paul completed his M.S. degree in the Summer of 2016 and is now working on his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee with Dr. Scott Crouter. His work focused on projects related to physical activity measurement and specifically with improving device accuracy through machine learning approaches to signal processing. He continues to collaborate in the lab.

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