About
Biography:
After completing a degree in Biomedical Technology at Sheffield Hallam University, Professor Kate Ward was awarded her PhD from the University of Leeds, combining anatomy and imaging to create a functional model of the foot. She began her postdoctoral career at the University of Manchester before moving to MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge. Kate joined Southampton as Associate Professor in 2016. Kate’s group is based in The UK and The Gambia where her research focusses on how to achieve and maintain functional ability to ensure healthy bone and muscle ageing. She co-leads the Sub-Saharan Africa Musculoskeletal Network, a capacity building initiative and was Director of INPreP an NIHR Global Health Nutrition Group. She is President of the Bone Research Society, Associate Editor of Osteoporosis International, a member of the International Osteoporosis Foundation Committee for Scientific Advisors and Co-Chair of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Global Ambassador Committee.
Synopsis of presentation:
An inevitable consequence of ageing is loss of bone and muscle strength. During childhood and adolescence, we can work to maximise our reservoir for later life. Across the world, changing environment presents challenges to older people and how they age. In this talk, I will describe how my research has focused on understanding bone and muscle health through the lifecourse. Firstly, as an undergraduate placement student where my passion for research began working to understand how the bones of children with disabling conditions are impacted by changes in walking and loading patterns. After a temporary departure into an anatomy lab in Leeds for my PhD, I came back to paediatric bone research in Manchester. The focus of my postdoctoral career was on imaging and understanding how loading, calcium and vitamin D might improve bone and muscle health. I will then describe how I moved to a global health focus during my time in Cambridge and now Southampton, starting in The Gambia, with collaborations now across Africa forming the focus of my work in lifecourse bone and muscle ageing. My theme is people and places because these are what have, and continue to, shape and drive me.
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