Excellence in Research
Excellence in Research
Robert Kraemer
Professor of Exercise Physiology
Department of Kinesiology and Health Studies
A graduate of the University of Arkansas and a member of the Southeastern faculty since 1991, Robert Kraemer is a man with a mission -- to get people moving again. His research focuses on the effects that exercise has on muscle and bone mass, on reproductive hormones, and on hormones that affect eating behavior.
The research has practical applications since it highlights how exercise can be beneficial in disease prevention and in rehabilitate following illness or injury. His research findings have received international recognition, is widely cited by other researchers, and is published in numerous highly refereed journals.
“We have a huge health crisis in this nation. Obesity, Type II diabetes, heart disease,
hypertension, and some forms of cancer all these major diseases are largely a direct
result of physical inactivity,” Kraemer says. “Basically, exercise is good medicine.
It’s certainly a less expensive approach to prevent disease than to treat it. Our
problem in health care funding is that we are more oriented toward responding to a
crisis than we are to looking down the road of prevention.”
One of his joys is involving undergraduate and graduate students in his research projects,
precisely the kind of teacher-student interaction valued so highly at Southeastern.
