For more information, contact: Boonshoft
School of Medicine Marketing and Communications, Cindy
Young at (937) 775-2951, or Phillip
Neal at (937) 775-4587.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 1, 2009
Richard Sherwood, Ph.D., appointed director of Wright State’s
Lifespan Health Research Center
Center is part of the WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine Department
of Community Health
Richard J. Sherwood, Ph.D., associate professor of
community health and pediatrics, has been appointed director of the Lifespan
Health Research Center (LHRC) within the Wright State University Boonshoft
School of Medicine Department of Community Health.
Sherwood came to the LHRC in 2003 as a visiting scientist from the Department
of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He joined the
center as a full-time faculty member two years later.
An accomplished teacher, prolific writer and passionate researcher,
Sherwood is especially interested in craniofacial biology, quantitative
genetics, phylogenetic reconstruction and hominin evolutionary biology. He
has conducted research in Nepal, Pakistan, Kenya and Tanzania, and his
current research includes three R01 grants from the National Institutes
of Health.
Sherwood is a member of 10 scientific and professional associations,
including the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, the American
Society of Human Genetics, the International Bone and Mineral Society
and the National Center for Science Education. He currently serves as
president of both the American Association of Anthropological Genetics
and the Society of Craniofacial Genetics.
In addition to presenting his work nationally through conferences and
publications on a regular basis, Sherwood is a reviewer for several publishers,
granting agencies, and journals, including the National Science Foundation,
the National Environmental Research Council, Current Anthropology and Science.
Sherwood earned his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences and an M.A. in anthropology
from Kent State University and a B.A. in anthropology from the University
of California, Berkeley.
The Lifespan Health Research Center conducts research related to the
changes that occur in individuals throughout their life span. Home of
the Fels Longitudinal Study, the world's largest and longest running
study on human growth and body composition, the center's major emphases
involve growth, maturation and aging, body composition, risk factors
for cardiovascular disease and the genetic epidemiology of complex traits.
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Editor’s note: For more information or to schedule an interview
contact: Phillip Neal, Marketing and Communications, Wright State University
Boonshoft School of Medicine, (937) 775-4587 or phillip.neal@wright.edu.
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