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I'm excited to announce funding of the Kansas Center for Metabolism and Obesity REsearch (KC-MORE) KU Medical Center through a NIH P30 COBRE grant. The MPI team includes Drs. Steve Weinman, Joe Donnelly, and I. Exciting times for building obesity and metabolism research.

Received the best NOA today! We were awarded a NIH re-entry supplement to allow Dr. Amy Bodde to return to academia to continue her research focused on health promotion for individuals w/intellectual disabilities. She has an all female mentorship team including Sandra Billinger.

Keeping that rt going...come live in southern california!!

Our team is so excited to earn our ACSM Autism Exercise Specialist Certificates tomorrow. Thanks to David Geslak for providing this important training!

We are hosting an online event (27 July, 13:00-14:30) about healthy lifestyles of adults with learning disabilities. All presentations will be done by adults with lived experience who were involved throughout the project. Everyone welcome! Register here: tinyurl.com/mr25xdfj

Excited to share the 18 month outcomes for our weight management trial in adolescents with intellectual disabilities. This study represents the largest and longest weight management trial in this population. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ij… @annamichaelg Brian Helsel, PhD, MS, CSCS

Honored to receive this years @WIMS_KUMC Soaring Star Award. Even more honored to stand next to Jill Morris who received the Rising Star Award. Thank you to @annamichaelg and Eric Vidoni for nominating me.

I am blown away but how beautiful a medical center campus can be. So thankful for this opportunity to visit UAB and speak about our research. UABNORC UAB Center for Exercise Medicine (UCEM)

Investigators at KU Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and KU Medical Center just received 5 years of funding to conduct the first clinical trial to examine the impact of dietary intake and weight loss on Alzheimer’s Disease risk factors in adults with Down Syndrome. So thankful for this opportunity and our team.

Great talk by Renee J. Rogers, PhD about physical activity for weight loss maintenance at #OW2022.

R01 renewal officially submitted! Now, come see me present the results of original trial, examining strategies for weight loss in adolescents with intellectual disabilities, at 4:45pm in Room 33 at #OW2022.

Welcome Amy to Twitter. We are lucky to have her in our Division. Amy is focused on improving caregiver health in individuals with intellectual disabilities.

Big congrats to Medical student Danica Dodd who presented her first poster at KU Medical Center Internal Medicine Research Day. We can’t wait for her to publish her findings that increased fitness is associated with increased cognitive function in adults with Down syndrome.

Come join KUMC as we grow into one of the leading institutes doing Intellectual Disabilities/Down syndrome research. We are now hiring for an Assistant/Associate Professor of Developmental Neuroscience and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities 🧠. kumc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/kumc-job…

Excited to be starting up this study in Lawrence, KS. Please share with anyone who may be interested. BONUS we’re kicking off a separate support group intervention for caregivers at the same time! Lauren Ptomey (Silent P) Amy Bodde, PhD

Leaders of KU Alzheimer's Disease Research Center ‘s Brain Health in Down Syndrome program got to spend the morning with Chris Nikic, the first person with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman Triathlon at the #321FitKansas event.

The best team and best collaborators around. The Division of Physical Activity and Weight Management, Special Olympics of Kansas, and Down Syndrome Innovations knows how to put together one hell of an event. #321FitKansas

Great talk from Brian Helsel, PhD, MS, CSCS on promotions physical activity in youth with intellectual or developmental disability at the Healthy Weight Research Network meeting.

I haven't been on X in months, but I had to share our newest publication looking at Cardiovascular risk factors and cognition in adults with Down syndrome. link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186/s…

The main outcomes from my first R01 are finally online! It’s been a wild 7 years but I’m so happy to share our data demonstrating that adults with intellectual disabilities can lose weight and keep it off for 2 years with remote delivery. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…