BIRCWH - Scholar, Penny Gordon-Larsen, PhD

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My research interests lie in the area of obesity research and minority health. Primarily, my research interests include include the sociodemographic and environmental determinants of physical activity and obesity, particularly among populations at highest risk: females, ethnic minority and lower socioeconmic status populations. Throughout may research career, I have focused on obesity as a complex disease with multifactorial etiology that requires an interdisciplinary approach.

BIRCWH MENTOR:

Barry Popkin, PhD
Professor and Nutrition
Department of Nutrition
UNC-Chapel Hill
CB#8120
Chapel Hill, NC
(919) 966-9159

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science:	Tulane University New Orleans, LA, State	1985-1989
MA:	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	1990-1992
PhD:	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	1994-1997
Postdoctoral Fellowship:	Dannon Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship in Interdisciplinary	1998-2000
Nutrition Science:	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Nutrition & Carolina Population Center

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

North American Association for the Study of Obesity

Population Association of America

American Society of Nutritional Sciences

CURRENT PUBLICATIONS:

Last Updated: 10/14/02
Gordon-Larsen P, Adair L, Popkin BM. "US adolescent physical activity and inactivity patterns are associated with overweight: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health." Obesity Research, 10:141-49 (2002). Adair L, Gordon-Larsen P. "Maturational Timing and Overweight Prevalance in US Adolescent Females. American Journal of Public Health, 91:642-44 (2001). Gordon-Larson P. "Obesity-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in obese and non-obese urban Philadelphia adolescents." Obesity Research, 9:112-18 (2001). Gordon-Larson P, McMurray RG, Popkin BM. "Determinants of adolescent physical activity and inactivity patterns." Pediatrics, 105:e83 (2000). http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/105/6/e83 Gordon-Larson P, McMurray RG, Popkin BM. "Adolescent physical activity and inactivity vary by ethnicity: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health." Journal of Pediatrics, 135:301-06 (1999). Johnston FE, Gordon-Larson P. "Poverty, nutrition, and obesity in the urban USA In Schell LM, Ulijaszek S (eds): Urbanism, Health, and Human Biology in Industrialized Countries." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 192-209 (1999). Gordon-Larson P, Zemel BS, Johnston FE. "Secular changes in stature, weight, fatness In Schell LM, Ulijaszek S (eds): Urbanism, Health, and Human Biology in Industrialized Countries." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 192-209 (1999). Gordon-Larson P. "Ecology of Obesity in West Philadelphia Adolescents." Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Dissertation, (1997). Cameron N, Gordon-Larson P, Wrchota EM. "Longitudinal analysis of adolescent growth in height, fatness, and fat patterning in rural South African black children." American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 93(3):307-21 (1994).