Distinguished Professor Seminar Series: Professor Douglas Seals

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Strategies for Promoting Cardiovascular Health Throughout the Lifespan
Douglas Seals

This presentation will summarize contemporary views of biomedical aging in humans, including the new focus on “healthspan”, i.e., the portion of lifespan associated with good health and function. In particular, the importance of preserving cardiovascular health throughout the lifespan and evidence-based lifestyle and pharmacological strategies to achieve that lofty goal will be emphasized.

An internationally renowned scientist, his research has provided significant insight into not only the basic mechanisms of biological aging, but also lifestyle and pharmacological interventions for preserving physiological function with age, including cardiovascular health. At CU 51ý, Seals established the General Clinical Research Center – since renamed the Clinical Translational Research Center – which remains the only National Institutes of Health-supported clinical research center not housed in a hospital or at a medical school. His many CU awards include Professor of Distinction in the College of Arts and Sciences, 51ý Faculty Assembly Research Award and CU 51ý’s Distinguished Research Lectureship.

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Doug Seals is a Distinguished Professor of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado 51ý. Professor Seals obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied physiology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and performed postdoctoral research training in applied physiology and aging in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis under the late Professor John Holloszy. The primary research interest of his laboratory is in establishing evidence-based strategies for promoting healthy cardiovascular aging. Professor Seals has published >350 peer-reviewed journal articles, has trained over 250 undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty, and has served as principal investigator on numerous grant awards from the National Institutes of Health, including a MERIT award from the National Institute on Aging.

Additional Resources

Healthy lifestyle-based approaches for successful vascular aging

Keynote lecture strategies for optimal cardiovascular aging

Strategies for Achieving Healthy Vascular Aging

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The CU 51ý Retired Faculty Association (UCBRFA) presents the distinguished professors of the University of Colorado, alecture and presentation series featuring some of our finest professors andtheir extraordinary research and scholarly work.