17^th World Fitness Expo

Biography

Julie Larsen is dual-credentialed as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and an American College of Sports Medicine Clinical Exercise Physiologist. She recently earned her Ph.D. in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from Washington State University in Spokane, WA. Her diversity of experience includes teaching a variety of exercise classes to middle-aged women in various states of health and disease, providing nutrition education and counseling to low-income families, interning in a cardiac rehabilitation facility, developing a weight loss program for veterans, and most recently, teaching at a university. Dr. Larsen teaches an assortment of classes, ranging from Nutrition and Exercise Throughout the Lifecyle to Exercise Testing and Prescription; from Nutrition Assessment and Lifestyle Counseling to Nutrition and Exercise Practicum, in which she supervises undergraduate students as they work in the Campus Health and Fitness Clinic. She is also a Health Promotion Clinical Director for the Special Olympics.

Research Interest

Exercise Physiology,