Faculty Focus - 2011/2012

Pete Brubaker (Professor):

• Selected to participate in the 2011-12 WFU Leadership Development Program
• Brubaker P, Ozemek C, Gonzalez A, Wiley S, and Collins G. “Cardiorespiratory Responses During Underwater and Land Treadmill Exercise in College Athletes.”  Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, 20(3):345-54, PMID 21828386, August 2011.
• Haykowsky MJ, Brubaker PH, John JM, Stewart KP, Morgan TM, Kitzman DW. “Determinants of Exercise Intolerance in Elderly Heart Failure Patients with Preserved Ejection Fraction.” Journal of American College of Cardiology, 58(3):265-74, PMID 21737017, July 2011.
• Presentations:
  • Organized (with Tony Marsh) and Chaired Symposium at ACSM meeting in Denver, CO, May 2011.  “Physical Activity Interventions and Prevention of Mobility Disability in Older Adults – What’s the Evidence?”
  • Invited speaker at Asian Pacific Cardiovascular Disease Treatment Summit, Seoul Korea, April 2011. “Transforming Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs into Chronic Disease Prevention Programs.”
  • Invited speaker for Grand Rounds at National Heart Center of Singapore, August 2011.  “Exercise is Medicine!”

Jeff Katula (Assistant Professor):

• Katula JA, Vitolins MA, Rosenberger E, Blackwell CS, Morgan T, Lawlor M, & Goff Jr DC. 
• “1-Year Results of a Community-Bases Translation of the Diabetes Prevention Profram: Healthy-Living Partnerships to Prevent Diabetes (HELP PD) Project.  Diabetes Care, 34(7), 1451-1457, 2011.
• Fielding RA, Rejeski WJ, Blair S, Church T, Espeland MA, Gil TM, Guralnik JM, Hsu FC,
• Katula J, King AC, Kritchevsky SB, McDermott MM, Miller ME, Nayfield S, Newman AB,
• Williamson JD, Bonds D, Romashkan S, Hadley E, & Pahor M; for the LIFE Research Group.
• “The Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders: Design and Methods”.  Journals of
• Gerontology, (Epub ahead of print), August 8, 2011.
• Legault C, Jennings JM, Katula JA, Dagenbach D, Gaussoin SA, Sink KM, Rapp SR, Rejeski WJ,
• Shumaker SA, & Espeland MA.  “Designing Clinical Trials for Assessing the Effects of Cognitive Training and Physical Activity Interventions on Cognitive Outcomes:  The Seniors Health and
• Activity Research Program Pilot (SHARP-P) Study, a Randomized Controlled Trial.”  BMC Geriatrics, 11(1):27, (Epub ahead of print), May 26, 2011.
• Janelsins MC, Davis PG, Wideman L, Katula JA, Sprod LK, Peppone LJ, Palesh OG, Heckler CE, Williams JP, Morrow GR, & Mustian KM.  “Effects of Tai Chi Chuan on Insulin and Cytokine Levels in a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study on Breast Cancer Survivors.” Clinical Breast Cancer, 11(3), 161-170, 2011.
• Katula JA, Vitolins MA, Rosenberger E, Blackwell CS, Morgan T, Lawlor M, & Goff Jr DC.
• “The Healthy Living Partnerships to Prevent Diabetes (HELP PD):  Weight Loss Achievement.”  Paper presented at the Centers for Disease Control Diabetes Translation Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April 2011.
• Katula JA, Lucas A, Jennings JM, Legault C, Gaussoin S, Yamamoto K, Sink K, Rapp S, Rejeski WJ, & Espeland MA.  “The Role of Executive Function in 400 M Walk Performance:  The Senior’s Health & Activity Research Program – Pilot )SHARP-P).”  Paper presented at the Annual Conference for the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC, 2011.
• Dr. Katula participated in the Diabetes Prevention Translation Summit, Washington DC, June 12, 2011.  The purpose of this invitation-only summit was to develop a demonstration diabetes prevention project for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to use for an upcoming policy proposal.  The HELP PD model was highlighted as one of the two premiere models of diabetes prevention that will be included in this demonstration project.  The summit was hosted by the Joslin Diabetes Center and Human Affairs.

Tony Marsh (Associate Professor):

• Paper accepted:
  • Marsh AP, Rejeski WJ, Espeland MA, Miller ME, Church TS, Fielding RA, Gill TM, Guralnik JM, Newman AB, Pahor M for the LIFE Study Investigators.   “Muscle Strength and BMI as Predictors of Major Mobility Disability in the Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Pilot (LIFE-P)”.  Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.