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Melinda S. Sothern, PhD, CEP is a licensed clinical exercise physiologist and currently serves as Professor Emeritus at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center (HSC), Schools of Medicine and Public Health in New Orleans, LA. She is the recipient of the Jim Finks Endowed Chair in Health Promotion in Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and maintains an adjunct appointment in the Prevention of Childhood Obesity Laboratory at the LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge.
Dr. Sothern’s research is widely published in a multitude of peer-reviewed scientific journals and in three scientific textbooks, Safe and Effective Exercise for Overweight Youth (CRC Press, 2014), The Handbook of Pediatric Obesity: Clinical Management (Taylor and Francis, 2006) and The Handbook of Pediatric Obesity: Etiology, Pathophysiology and Prevention (Taylor and Francis, 2005). She also senior-authored a popular press book for parents of overweight children to use in conjunction with their pediatrician or family physician entitled Trim Kids (2001, Harper Collins). The Trim Kids program is recognized by the National Cancer Institute as a Research Tested Intervention Program and is acknowledged by the U. S. Surgeon General for its community dissemination in YMCA centers in Louisiana.
Dr. Sothern was a scientific presenter for The Obesity Society Distinguished Lecture Series in 2004, the Southeast American College of Sports Medicine Distinguished Lecturer in the Fall of 2007, and was chosen as the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health Faculty inductee for outstanding public health performance in scholarship, teaching, research and publications in October, 2007. In June of 2011, she provided the keynote lecture for the 2011 US Public Health Service Commissioned Officer Scientific and Training Symposium and delivered an invited lecture for the 2012 American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Scientific Meeting. Dr. Sothern also previously served as a member of the scientific advisory committees for the United States Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth and the Louisiana State Report Card on Physical Activity and Health for Children and Youth. She continues service as a Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation, St. George’s University, School of Medicine, Grenada.
Dr. Sothern led her field in establishing standardized guidelines for prescribing exercise for children with increasing levels of obesity and is best known for her work in promoting active play as a means of preventing and treating childhood obesity. In acknowledgement of her achievements, she received the University of New Orleans Dr. Vane Wilson Award in recognition of excellent work and service in the field of human performance and health promotion in May of 2000. She has been a member of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and The Obesity Society for more than thirty years, is a fellow and former council member of The Obesity Society and previously served as member of the Annual Scientific Program Planning and Education committees. In 2007, Dr. Sothern served as Chairman of the Publications committee and supervised the transition of the scientific journal entitled, Obesity, to publication in the Nature Publishing Group. She also served as an associate editor for the journal, Obesity, for over a decade, as well as, participated on the editorial board of the journals, Pediatric Obesity, Childhood Obesity and Obesity: Science and Practice. She previously served as associate editor for the journal, International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, for 4 years. She co-founded and served as co-chair of the Pediatric Obesity Interest Group, which is now formally integrated into The Obesity Society as the Pediatric Obesity Section.
During the past 30 years, Dr. Sothern has provided over 250 invited scientific lectures or presentations to universities, medical centers and scientific meetings. She also represented the LSU Health Sciences Center as an invited lecturer for the Southeast Conference (SEC) Scientific Symposium in Atlanta, GA in September of 2014. She is a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, numerous pediatric, obesity, behavioral science and exercise scientific journals and provides scientific advice to several major national and international corporations including: Gerber Foods, Kraft Foods, Nestle International, Knoll Pharmaceuticals, Health Nutrition Technology, Susan Dell Foundation, the Disney Corporation and others.
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Health promotion practiceno. 4 (2024): 717-725
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL DISTRESS AND THE HOMELESS (2023)
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American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecologyno. 2 (2019): 128.e1-128.e10
L. M. Cahill,K. A. Fisher,W. T. Robinson,K. J. Beiter,J. Zabaleta,T. S. Tseng,M. M. Kepper, M. K. Skizim, L. A. Griffiths, R. B. Uddo, N. E. Pelligrino,J. M. Maronge,
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