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Catrine Tudor-Locke

Dean Catrine Tudor-Locke, PhD, FACSM, FNAK

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Catrine Tudor-Locke, PhD, FACSM, FNAK is Professor and Dean of the College of Health and Human Services. Dean Tudor-Locke has joined the University from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was associate dean for research and administration in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences. Prior to her current appointment, Tudor-Locke served as chair of the Department of Kinesiology.

Dean Tudor-Locke is a walking behavior researcher and a recognized world leader in objective physical activity assessment and promotion, specifically focused on pedometer or accelerometer-determined ambulatory activity captured as steps/day across the lifespan. She is a trained program evaluator and adult educator focused on practical applications in objective monitoring measurement and intervention. She has also published on clinical vs. free-living gait analysis, including interpretation of cadence as a simple indicator of ambulatory patterns. She has also published work documenting the relationship between time spent in sedentary behavior and relatively low ambulatory activity, measured as steps/day.

Education

PhD – University of Waterloo, 2000, Health Studies and Gerontology
Certificate – St. Francis Xavier University, 1995, Adult Education
MSc – Dalhousie University, 1992, Kinesiology
BA – University of Lethbridge 1985, Physical Education

Teaching

Physical Activity
Public Health Research

Research Interests/Areas of Expertise

With funding from many public agencies and private foundations, Dean Tudor-Locke has established an internationally recognized research program on the promotion of walking throughout the lifespan and the development of objective measures of physical activity using wearable technology. She has more than 280 articles published or in press in leading physical activity journals and has presented at many national and international conferences resulting in more than 150 abstracts or conference presentations. She also has delivered more than 85 invited academic presentations in the U.S. and internationally.

Awards & Honors

Date	Award
1981	Alberta Heritage Fund Scholarship
1981	Lethbridge Legion Scholarship
1989	Dalhousie University Graduate Entrance Scholarship
1997, 98, 99	Ontario Graduate Scholarship
1997, 98, 99 1997, 98, 99	Provost, Graduate Incentive Fund University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship
1998	J. Alan George Student Leadership Award
1998	Bayer Corporation Education Innovation Award (Co-Recipient with W. Rodger)
2000	Governor-General Gold Medal University of Waterloo
2000	Early Career Award International Society of Behavioral Medicine (Travel award to attend International Congress of Behavioral Medicine in Australia)
2002	Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Writing Award
2003	Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine
2003	Nominated for ASU East Award of Excellence for Researcher of the Year
2005	Early promotion to Associate Professor, Arizona State University
2006	SEACSM Lecturer (visited University of Alabama, Georgia State University, and Florida State University)
2007	Tenure granted at Arizona State University
2007	Sabbatical granted at Arizona State University (Study and travel in Australia)
2008	Granted rolling tenure (and continuously awarded during all years at this appointment) at Pennington Biomedical Research Center
2010	Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Writing Award
2010	O’Dell Lecture (Invited Named Lecture at the University of Missouri)
2015	Promoted to Full Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst
2015	Elected Fellow (#553) to the National Academy of Kinesiology
2016	University of Massachusetts Boston Research Excellence Award

Community Involvement

Dean Tudor-Locke is an elected fellow to the National Academy of Kinesiology and is an active member of the American College of Sports Medicine, the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, and the International Society for Physical Activity and Health.

Selected Publications

1: Tudor-Locke C, Aguiar EJ, Han H, Ducharme SW, Schuna JM Jr, Barreira TV, Moore

CC, Busa MA, Lim J, Sirard JR, Chipkin SR, Staudenmayer J. Walking cadence

(steps/min) and intensity in 21-40 year olds: CADENCE-adults. Int J Behav Nutr

Phys Act. 2019 Jan 17;16(1):8. doi: 10.1186/s12966-019-0769-6. PubMed PMID:

30654810; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6337834.

2: Tudor-Locke C, Han H, Aguiar EJ, Barreira TV, Schuna JM Jr, Kang M, Rowe DA.

How fast is fast enough? Walking cadence (steps/min) as a practical estimate of

intensity in adults: a narrative review. Br J Sports Med. 2018

Jun;52(12):776-788. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2017-097628. Review. PubMed PMID:

29858465; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6029645.

3: Tudor-Locke C, Schuna JM Jr, Han HO, Aguiar EJ, Green MA, Busa MA, Larrivee S,