An inspiring weekend at the AHA Conference! Hard work and passion drive us, but friends make the difference! #AHA2024 VCU Health Pauley Heart Center VCU Internal Medicine Department UVA CVRC UVA Cardio UVA Department of Medicine AntonioAbbate Austin Hogwood, PhD Paola Pastena, MD

ACSM Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist ✅

Great job by Guillaume, James, and John putting this together. Glad to have helped. taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.… LSU CHSE LSU School of Kinesiology #scholarshipfirst LSU Libraries

Proud to have been accepted as an iDRIV Scholar! iTHRIV CTSI I’m looking forward to the opportunity to learn, and to help others after me!

A confusing and scary time to be actively pursuing or engaging in academic science as a career

Grateful to have received a Travel Stipend from UVA’s Precision Health Initiative (PHI) to present my data at American College of Sports Medicine in May!

“Don’t take yourself out of the competition” Wise words from Mete Civelek to the iDRIV cohort iTHRIV CTSI ! I think sometimes as a younger scientist, it’s easy sell yourself short. Grateful to hear more & more from people like Mete and AntonioAbbate not to fall in this trap!

2 hours of writing and then Microsoft word crashes and I realized I hadn’t saved 🥲 I may have only written 3 sentences, but they were 3 good sentences!

Just had my mind blown at how expansive the MOTRPAC data set is at #APS2025 🤯

Enjoyed the invitation to discuss my dissertation research on Nutritional Revolution podcast! We talked about the effects of inorganic nitrate on exercise and vasculature function across sex, menstrual cycle, and menopause Also on Youtube and Apple 👍🏼 spotify.link/SF4M3X4Z9Sb

1/10 Excited to write this thread summarizing our new paper in Nature Metabolism, which identifies a potentially critical part of the signaling pathway that drives skeletal muscle growth in response to resistance exercise! Free link rdcu.be/el9am #Myotwitter NIAMS

On hold for 3.5 hours with Mohela student loans and still no answer, trying to fix an issue they made on my account that prevents me from receiving loan repayment Gotta love it !

Happy to share our latest editorial comment discussing the adaptations to exercise training with IL-6 and TNF inhibition! Check it out below. More work is needed in this area! JACC Journals

Excited to give to 2 talks at #ACSM25 on Thursday! 💔 10:00 AM – Impaired Exercise Capacity in Stress Cardiomyopathy ❤️‍🩹 4:30 PM – Cardiac Reserve After STEMI If you’re curious about how cardiac recovery impacts cardiorespiratory fitness, come join the discussion! American College of Sports Medicine

Proud of my mentor, Art Weltman, for receiving the ACSM citation award. A well deserved honor for an amazing teacher, mentor, and scholar. ⁦UVA Kinesiology⁩ ⁦American College of Sports Medicine⁩

Presented at #ASCO25: A 3-year structured exercise program after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer improved disease-free and overall survival, physical functioning, and fitness, as compared with health education alone. Full CHALLENGE phase 3 trial results:

Great new Compendium issue in Circ Res on over 10 review articles on exercise and physical activity 👍🏼 ahajournals.org/toc/res/137/2

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