Tim Lohman, PhD

PRESIDENT

Timothy G. Lohman, PhD is a professor emeritus at the University of Arizona and is widely considered a leading scientist in the field of body composition assessment. Dr. Lohman founded the Global Health and Body Composition Institute (GHBCI) in 2019. GHBCI is a nonprofit 501(C)(3) whose goal is fostering body composition expertise, training and certification worldwide. He previously served as the Director of the Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition at the University of Arizona. He co-edited ACSM’s Human Body Composition, First and Second Edition, and co-edited the Anthropometric Standardization Reference Manual.

Laurie Milliken, PhD

CEO

Dr. Milliken is a graduate of the University of Arizona and was a close associate of Dr. Lohman when she was there. She is currently an associate professor and former chair of the exercise and health sciences department at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Since 1998, she has been active in the New England chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (NEACSM), serving as president, the chair of the Continuing Education committee, state representative and an executive committee member. Nationally, she has served in the ACSM Research Awards Committee and is also an editorial board member of ACSM’s “Health & Fitness Journal”. She has presented her research at many annual ACSM meetings.   Dr. Milliken is the co-founder of GHBCI and is the main creator of the on-line Level I Workshop. She has extensive experience in on-line course development, as well as significant research in the areas of osteoporosis and weight loss.

Joshua Farr, PhD

Dr. Farr is an Associate Professor in the Division of Rheumatology, University of Arizona Department of Medicine. In addition, he serves as the Ethel McChesney Bilby Chair for Osteoporosis Research in the Arizona Arthritis Center. Over the past ten years at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota), Dr. Farr’s work has been seminal in the identification of senescent cells in the bone microenvironment, and their role in mediating age-related bone loss in old mice. He also served as PI on a phase 2 trial to test the effects of intermittent senolytic therapy on bone metabolism in postmenopausal women, which has key implications for the future development of senolytic drugs. Dr. Farr’s laboratory at the University of Arizona will focus on the roles of senescent cells in mediating aging and chronic diseases.

Scott Going, PhD

Scott Going, PhD, is a Professor and Director of the School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness at The University of Arizona, and Co-Director of the Collaboratory for Metabolic Disease Prevention and Treatment. His research interests include development of methods for body composition assessment, changes in body composition during growth and development in children and with aging in older adults, and the effects of exercise and diet on bone, soft tissue composition, functional capacity and health.

Linda Houtkooper PhD, RDN, FACSM

Dr. Houtkooper is an Emeritus Faculty Member in the School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness at the University of Arizona. Her research and educational programs focused on the relationships of nutrition and physical activity to bone health, obesity prevention, fitness promotion and sports performance. She has presented lectures, workshops, and seminars for various professional associations; Olympic, collegiate, professional and recreational sports teams; at Nutrition and Sports Medicine Conferences at the international, national and state levels. Dr. Houtkooper received a Bachelor of Science from South Dakota State University, a Master of Science and Ph.D. in nutritional sciences from the University of Arizona. She is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM).

Deepika Laddu

Dr. Laddu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy here at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She received her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Arizona, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, with comprehensive training in body composition, obesity prevention, cardiovascular and aging epidemiology, and behavioral intervention design. At UIC, her research is focused largely on population health and lifestyle medicine, with a portfolio dedicated to studying preventive and therapeutic effects of exercise, physical activity and nutrition on cardiovascular and metabolic health, and in relation to patient-centered outcomes in diverse populations. Her current NIH-funded award is testing the effect of resistance exercise training on blood pressure control and vascular function in older adults with sarcopenia and frailty.

Rebecca Larson, PhD

Dr. Rebecca Larson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science at the University of Oklahoma. She received her PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Georgia, and a postdoctoral fellowship also at the University of Georgia. She is the supervisor for the Body Composition and Physical Performance Laboratory with focused research on the optimal measurement and evaluation of physical function and performance with special interests in areas related to muscle metabolism & function, muscle fatigue, adaptations to exercise, and body composition across a range of individuals (Multiple Sclerosis to competitive athletes).

Michael Lohman

Michael Lohman - Sr. Engineering Manager at Google.  20+ years industry experience in technology. Past board member of United Way Washington DC, and Montgomery Alliance. Lives in Sunnyvale CA.

Dr. Mario Muñoz, PhD

Dr. Mario Muñoz, Ph.D., FACSM, is an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at Sam Houston State University. His research focuses on factors influencing physical activity and sedentary behaviors in Latino children and adults. A Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, Dr. Muñoz has served as Co-chair of the Minority Health and Research Special Interest Group. His expertise spans exercise physiology, pediatric exercise, research methods, and exercise physiology for athletic performance.

Luís Sardinha, PhD

Luís B. Sardinha is Full Professor of Exercise Prescription and Functional Body Composition and Energy Regulation at the Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon. He was trained in Exercise and Sport Science, earning a M.Sc. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Kansas, USA and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Human Kinetics at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. In 1997, he did his post-doc at the Body Composition Laboratory, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine,
University of Arizona, USA. Currently he is the Dean of the Faculty of Human Kinetics, Director of the Exercise and Health Laboratory, PI for the Portuguese Physical Activity and Physical Fitness Surveillance System and coordinator of the Towards Intelligent Health and Well-Being Network of Physical Activity Assessment (INTERLIVE ® ). He has been an investigator in some international research projects and PI in several competitive projects. The focus of his research has been the
development of models and methods of human body composition, and investigating graded and dose response relationships between sedentary behaviour, physical activity and fitness with
physiological attributes across the life span and related mechanisms. He is further involved in forward-translation research comprising web-based outreach programs to influence children and
adults’ body composition, fitness and health using digital phenotyping.

John Eisele

OPERATIONS MANAGER

John Eisele is a 44 year resident of Tucson and has been a personal friend of Dr. Lohman for many years. Mr. Eisele is semi-retired and brings several years of design and management experience to the organization. After graduating from the University of Michigan, with a BS in Engineering, Mr. Eisele had a wide-ranging career, including 22+ yrs with IBM, owning several businesses, and marketing a variety of environmental products over the years. He ‘caught the vision’ of what Dr. Lohman and Dr. Milliken are creating with the Institute and is using his organizational skills to provide the operational foundation for the Institute.