Professor in Medicine and Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
Duke School of Medicine
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States
Connie Watkins Bales, PhD, RDN
Dr. Bales is a Professor of Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine and Associate Director for Education and Evaluation of the Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center at the Durham VA Medical Center. Her research over the last 3 decades has ranged from basic and translational studies to randomized controlled trials, all focusing on the aging process and the interactions of nutrition with health and disease in older adults. Most recently, her work has focused on mechanistic and applied studies of interventions for sarcopenic obesity, prediabetes, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and physical frailty. Dr. Bales has been a collaborator on a number of key studies examining the interaction of nutrition, health, and aging, including the Comprehensive Assessment of Long-Term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy (CALERIE) trial, the Studies of Targeted Risk Reduction Interventions through Defined Exercise (STRRIDE studies) and the first Dietary Approaches to Stopping Hypertension (DASH) trial. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics, a collaborating editor for Current Developments in Nutrition, and Co-Editor of the Nutrition and Health book series from Humana Press.
Clinical Nutrition: Novel Assessments and Interventions (Oral 7)
Saturday, June 29, 2024
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CT
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.