Maria Fiatarone Singh
Prof Maria Fiatarone Singh AM, M.D., FGSA, FRACP, is an academic and clinical geriatrician, board-certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine in both the USA and Australia, who has held the inaugural John Sutton Chair of Exercise and Sport Science and Professorship, Sydney Medical School since 1999. She has had 34 years’ experience in the design and implementation of clinical trials utilising high intensity resistance training (PRT) for the treatment of chronic disease and frailty in older adults up to 103 years of age, having carried out the very first, paradigm-shifting trial of high intensity PRT in nonagenarians in 1988. Since that time, the target has expanded to include most of the major chronic diseases and geriatric syndromes affecting function, including mobility disorders, osteoporosis, falls, hip fracture, as well as diabetes, arthritis, obesity, depression, cognitive decline, insomnia, peripheral vascular disease, renal failure, cardiac failure, Lewy Body dementia, peripheral neuropathy, breast cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and substance abuse disorders, among others, using both face-to-face clinic and digital/eHealth-supported delivery of multidisciplinary interventions. CIA has published extensively in the area of health implications of exercise and nutrition, having authored/edited 3 books, authored over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 120 peer-reviewed books, book chapters, position stands, and review articles with an h-index of 74. She has had continuous substantial NIH funding from 1989-2004, and continuous NHMRC funding since 1999 when relocating to Australia. Career grant funding totals over $72 million AUD.