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Dr. Andrea Brennan is a Biobehavioral Research Scientist at AdventHealth Research Institute. Dr. Brennan earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Exercise Physiology from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada under the supervision of Dr. Robert Ross. She joined AdventHealth as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2019 where she studied the role of exercise and nutrition in aging and obesity, with a special focus on skeletal muscle composition and regional adiposity. She is trained in body composition imaging (MRI, DEXA), immunohistochemistry, and cardiometabolic risk factor assessment and has published several peer-reviewed manuscripts in the field of exercise RCTs, lifestyle treatment of obesity, and response variability. Her current research interests include the interaction between nutrition and movement-based strategies for disease risk in special populations.

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