Background
Anne B. Newman was born in 1955 and attended the University of Pittsburgh for all of her higher education.
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Education
University of Pittsburgh.
Career
She was the first scholar to be awarded the Katherine M. Detre Endowed Chair of Population Health Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She is widely published and has been listed on the annual Inter-Services Intelligence Web of Knowledge most highly cited scientists for 2015, as published by Thomson Reuters. She began her research career with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute"s 19-year Cardiovascular Health Study in 1988, which evaluated men and women 65-years-old or more for the risk factors, consequences, and natural history of cardiovascular disease.
She has also researched body mass and the effect of abdominal fat verses lower-body fat (fat deposits on the hips, thighs and buttocks), confirming that where the body stores fat impacts health.
She has also researched the impact of fitness on cognitive, muscle and physical function in aging and longevity. Newman has been involved in and served as the lead investigator for multiple long-term studies conducted with grants from the National Institute of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on aging.
In 2005, Newman joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh where she is both the chair of the department of epidemiology and director of the Center for Aging and Population Health. In 2014 she was honored as the first scholar to receive appointment as the Katherine M. Detre Endowed Chair of Population Health Science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Newman has published more than 500 articles in scientific journals, is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Science, and has been listed on the annual Inter-Services Intelligence Web of Knowledge most highly cited scientists for 2015, as published by Thomson Reuters.
