HIGH POINT, N.C., Sept. 9, 2016 – The High Point University Congdon School of Health Sciences and the Department of Health & Human Performance will welcome Dr. Joseph Houmard for its Distinguished Lecture Series at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 28. The event will be held at the Hayworth Fine Arts Center’s Pauline Theater on the HPU campus. The event is free and open to the public; no tickets are required.
Houmard is an internationally recognized expert in skeletal muscle physiology. His research focuses on alterations to skeletal muscle metabolism with obesity, Type 2 diabetes, the aging process and how an active lifestyle can counteract decrements associated with these conditions. More specifically, he is currently investigating how fat metabolism and insulin action are altered by obesity and aging. Houmard hopes to discover how exercise training can augment the improvement in insulin action seen with dramatic weight loss that is typically experienced by those who have undergone gastric bypass surgery.
“Dr. Houmard is a world renowned researcher and leader in the field of exercise physiology,” says Dr. Tony Kemerly, chair of the Department of Health & Human Performance. “His research is relevant in society today and has a profound impact as we struggle with conditions like obesity and diabetes.
“His passion for promoting a physically active lifestyle that improves quality of life through the lifespan perfectly corroborates with our mission in the Congdon School of Health Sciences. I am excited that our students will have the opportunity to interact and learn from such a leader in the field.”
Houmard is the director of the East Carolina University Human Performance Laboratory and the M.S. program in Exercise Physiology at East Carolina University. He is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has been awarded over $10,000,000 in support of his research from a variety of sources, including the National Institutes of Health.