Behavioral Research Scientist
Translational Research
Dr. Andrea Brennan is a Biobehavioral Research Scientist at AdventHealth Research Institute. Dr. Brennan earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Exercise Physiology from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada under the supervision of Dr. Robert Ross. She joined AdventHealth as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2019 where she studied the role of exercise and nutrition in aging and obesity, with a special focus on skeletal muscle composition and regional adiposity. She is trained in body composition imaging (MRI, DEXA), immunohistochemistry, and cardiometabolic risk factor assessment and has published several peer-reviewed manuscripts in the field of exercise RCTs, lifestyle treatment of obesity, and response variability. Her current research interests include the interaction between nutrition and movement-based strategies for disease risk in special populations.
CLINICAL OBESITY
2023
CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL
2022
NATURE REVIEWS ENDOCRINOLOGY
2022
MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE
2022
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES
2021
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE
2021
FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
2020
MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE
2020
PHYSIOLOGICAL REPORTS
2019
Medicine and science in sports and exercise
2019
Queen's University, Canada