Daisy Emery Allen Distinguished Chair in Geriatric Medicine; Director, Sealy Center on Aging; Director, UTMB Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center; Associate Director, Institute for Translational Sciences; Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine-Geriatrics, Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Nutrition and Metabolism, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch
Contact
301 University Boulevard
Galveston, TX 77555-0117
Phone: (409) 747-1987 Fax: (409) 772-8931
Email:
evolpi@utmb.edu
Research Areas
Physical functioning and sarcopenia in older adults; Protein metabolism; Muscle metabolism in type 2 diabetes; Exercise and nutritional regulation of muscle growth; Sex/gender disparities in metabolism; Ethnic/racial disparities in metabolism
Education
MD 1989 University of Perugia, Italy; PhD 1995 University of Perugia, Italy