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Distinguished Professor
The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. De Souza is a Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology and Physiology, Director of the Women’s Health and Exercise Laboratory at Penn State University, and Executive Director of the Female and Male Athlete Triad Coalition. Dr. De Souza received her Bachelor and Master of Science from Springfield College, a PhD from the University of Connecticut, and completed postdoctoral work in reproductive physiology and endocrinology at the University of Connecticut Medical School, where she later become the Associate Director of the Menopause Treatment and Research Program. Dr. De Souza spent almost a decade at the University of Toronto in Canada, where she was the Director of the Centre for Girls and Women’s Health and Physical Activity. In 2007, Dr. De Souza moved to Penn State University where she continued a fertile research career. Dr. De Souza’s research for 30+ years has focused on the complex interplay between metabolic, reproductive, and skeletal physiology in in both pre and post-menopausal women to include sex steroid drug intervention trials of postmenopausal hormone therapy and oral and non-oral hormone therapies in premenopausal women, exercise and diet interventions and trials of whole food (dried plum) interventions for postmenopausal women with low bone mass. Dr. Dr. De Souza has won teaching awards from Penn State University, a Citation Award for Career Research from the American College of Sport Medicine in 2018 a Honor Award from the New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine in 2018, and the Pennsylvania State University Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research Career Award in 2019. Dr. De Souza is a Past President of the Female and Male Athlete Triad Coalition: An International Consortium dedicated to the study of the Female and Male Athlete Triad, and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology.