Kevin Jacobs joined the faculty at the University of Miami in 2004.  He completed his Masters in applied exercise physiology at San Diego State University in 1993 and worked as a research physiologist at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego until 1995.  He earned his Ph.D. in exercise physiology from The Ohio State University in 2000 and most recently completed a four-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley and the Palo Alto VA Health Care System.

His research focus is human metabolism and more specifically the ways in which factors such as exercise intensity, nutritional status, training status, gender, age, menstrual cycle phase, and environment alter substrate (carbohydrate, fat, and protein) use at rest and during exercise. His research involves basic measurements such as the analysis of respiratory gas exchange and concentrations of various blood metabolites and hormones to more complex measurements of substrate turnover by stable isotope infusion and analysis.  The results of his research not only further basic science, but are also applied to improving our understanding of the etiology of metabolic diseases such as obesity and non-insulin-dependent diabetes and developing more effective lifestyle interventions to prevent and treat these diseases.  His research has involved men and women of various ages and levels of fitness as subjects that have been studied in environments as varied as a standard laboratory at sea level to a high altitude research station at Pikes Peak, Colorado (14,100 ft elevation).

He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine.  His most recent publications include “Menstrual Cycle Phase and Oral Contraceptive Effects on Triglyceride Mobilization During Exercise” and “ Fatty Acid Re-esterification But Not Oxidation Is Increased by Oral Contraceptive Use In Women” in the Journal of Applied Physiology , “Dietary Composition Influences Short-Term Endurance Training-Induced Adaptations of Substrate Partitioning During Exercise” in the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism , and “Catecholamine Response Is Attenuated During Moderate Intensity Exercise In Response to the ‘Lactate Clamp’” in the American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism.

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