Stella Lucia Volpe, PhD, RD, LD/N, FACSM
| svolpe@nursing.upenn.edu | |
| Personal Website | http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/faculty/profile.asp?pid=1152 |
Faculty Information | |
| CCEB Appointment | Associate Scholar, Epidemiology |
| Primary Faculty Appointment | Associate Professor and Miriam Stirl Term Endowed Chair in Nutrition, Division of Biobehavioral and Health Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing |
Research Statement
Dr. Volpe’s research revolves around the effects of the environment on obesity – both how the environment can be changed to prevent obesity, and how the environment has resulted in a more obese nation and world. Her interventions include changing portion sizes in cafeterias and making physical activity more a part of a person’s day to implement changes in behavior. She also conducts research on school-based nutrition and physical activity education and their impact on children's knowledge and behavior; and on mineral metabolism and how it affects exercise, thyroid hormone function, diabetes/metabolic syndrome, bone mineral density, and body weight. Dr. Volpe is a Faculty member of the Physiology of the Body Compartment Fellowship Program in the Department of Neuroscience, Human Nutrition and Food at the Universita Degli Studi “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italia.
Selected Publications
S.L. Volpe, H.-W. Huang, K. Larpadisorn, I.I., Lesser. Effect of chromium supplementation on body composition, resting metabolic rate, and selected biochemical parameters in moderately obese women following an exercise program. Journal of the American College of Nutrition 2001; 20(4): 293-306.
J.C. Little, D.R. Perry, S.L. Volpe. The effect of sport nutrition education on sport supplement knowledge among high school students from low-income communities. Journal of Community Health 2002; 27(6): 433-450.
S.L. Volpe, F.N. Rife, E.L. Melanson, A. Merritt, J. Witek, P.S. Freedson. Physiological changes in sixth graders who trained to walk the Boston marathon. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine 2002; 1(4): 128-135.
A. De Lorenzo, A. Andreoli, P. Serrano, N. D'Orazio, V. Cervelli, S.L. Volpe. Body cell mass measured by total body potassium in normal-weight and obese men and women. Journal of the American College of Nutrition 2003; 22(6): 546-549.
A. De Lorenzo, A. Andreoli, P. Battisti, N. Candeloro, S.L. Volpe, N. Di Daniele. Assessment of total bodypotassium in healthy Italian men. Annals of Human Biology 2004; 31(4): 381-388
