Acting Associate Chief of Staff, Research
North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System
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Joshua Yarrow obtained his MS from Arizona State University and PhD from the University of Florida. His research spans the preclinical-translational-clinical spectrum and focuses broadly on determining how the endocrine and nervous systems regulate bone and muscle integrity and cardiometabolic and prostate health in adulthood, with two primary themes: 1) determining the sex-steroid hormone mediated mechanisms that underlie maintenance of bone, muscle, and adiposity, and that influence cardiovascular and prostate health in adults and 2) evaluating pharmacologic and activity-based physical therapy interventions to enhance musculoskeletal integrity and promote use-dependent neuromuscular plasticity after spinal cord injury (SCI) and in the aging population. His preclinical research program is currently funded to evaluate the individual and combined effects of physical rehabilitation and anabolic adjuvants on muscle, bone, and locomotor recovery after SCI. He is also Principal Investigator a Phase II randomized clinical trial that is evaluating the effects of testosterone plus finasteride (a type II 5α-reductase inhibitor) on musculoskeletal recovery, body composition, and metabolic and prostate health in hypogonadal men with ambulatory dysfunction resulting from incomplete SCI and on small Phase II feasibility trial that is evaluating testosterone plus locomotor training on recovery of musculoskeletal integrity and walking function after SCI. He serves as the Acting Associate Chief of Staff for Research at North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System. In addition, he has a faculty appointment in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at the University of Florida College of Medicine and he is a Research Health Scientist and Director of the Preclinical Musculoskeletal Imaging Core Lab at North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, which is a national resource for imaging of bone, vascular, and soft-tissue morphology in rodents and other small lab animals using microcomputed tomography (microCT) and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA).