NACDA Podcast 22 - Dr. Carrie A Karvonen-Gutierrez and SWAN

This 47-minute podcast features Dr. Carrie A Karvonen-Gutierrez:

• Dr. Karvonen-Gutierrez is an epidemiologist focusing on the impact of reproductive aging, chronological aging and obesity on age-related health outcomes including physical functioning, frailty, osteoarthritis, disability and cardiometabolic dysfunction. 
• Associate Professor, Epidemiology 
• Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs, Epidemiology 
• Director, Center for Lifecourse Epidemiology and Aging Research – She and her team seeks to understand the impact of critical life stages and transitions on metabolic and musculoskeletal health outcomes.
• Principal Investigator of multiple NIH-funded studies of women including the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)-Michigan site, the Michigan Bone Health and Metabolism Study (both of these include 25+ years of health, symptom, demographic, and functioning data on women, followed from midlife through early old age) and the PROTECT-Moms study.