Candidate Presentations
We have invited two candidates to campus to interview for the full-time Associate Dean of Research position in the College of Health Sciences.
We encourage you to attend each candidate’s Open Forum Presentation:
- Presentation Topic:Â Advancing Research in the College of Health Sciences
- Overview: Candidates will share strategic insights and best practices from their experience to enhance research at COHS. Presentations will consider Boise State’s unique context, the Boise community, and Idaho’s broader research landscape, including both translational research and practical applications.
Can’t attend? A recording of each presentation will be available on this webpage the following day.
Provide Your Input
If you attend the forum, participate in the on-campus interview, or engage with a candidate, we encourage you to complete a short survey to share your feedback.
Your input, along with the search committee’s recommendations, will help inform Dean Powers and Provost Buckwalter in making a hiring decision.
Dr. Michael Christopher
Monday, Feb. 24, 3-4pm
AFC Ballroom
View Dr. Christopher’s CV (PDF)
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Michael Christopher, PhD received a BA in psychology from Loyola University Maryland (1996), a PhD in clinical psychology from The University of South Dakota (2004), and completed a doctoral internship in clinical psychology at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital (2004), and a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical health psychology at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital (2005). He has been a faculty member at Pacific University since 2006 and was the founding director of the PhD program in clinical psychology in 2012. He is director of the Mindful Health & Resilience Lab where he and his students study the impact of mindfulness and related contemplative practices in enhancing resilience and improving stress reactivity in high-risk and diverse groups. He has been a principal investigator, co-investigator, and consultant on a number of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants, a sponsor for PhD student NIH diversity awards, and he is a regular grant reviewer for several NIH institutes and centers. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Mindfulness and serves on the editorial board for three other academic journals.
Dr. Theodore Angelopoulos
Thursday, Feb. 27, 3-4pm
SUB Jordan C. Ballroom
View Dr. Angelopoulos’ CV (PDF)
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Dr. Angelopoulos is currently a professor in the Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Science, where he teaches courses in the physical therapy and exercise science areas. As chair of the University of Vermont College of Nursing and Health Sciences Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Science (2018-2023), he managed programs and supervised several faculty research programs in disciplines including sports medicine, obesity, exercise and mental health, pain neuroscience, work rehabilitation, and treatment of chronic disease with therapeutic exercise.
Dr. Angelopoulos major research areas include adiposity, exercise, metabolism and physiogenomics. Specifically, Dr. Angelopoulos’ research is focusing on: 1) the development of lifestyle interventions for the prevention and treatment of metabolic disease, 2) the role of regularly repeated exercise in modifying risk factors for cardio-metabolic disease and 3) the impact of dietary sugars in the development of adiposity and cardio-metabolic disease. His research efforts have been funded by NIH (PI and Co-PI/Co-Inv) as well as Industry.
Before his work at UVM, Angelopoulos spent most of his career at the University of Central Florida, where he directed the exercise physiology laboratory from 1998-2005, a program funded by the National Institutes of Health, which significantly contributed to research in muscle hypertrophy. Angelopoulos was pivotal in recruiting two research faculty for the Provost Research Enhancement Program and became one of nine members of the International Exercise and Genetics Collaborative Research Group, a consortium of investigators examining genetic factors contributing to individual responses to exercise training. He also served as Director of Clinical Research for Rippe Lifestyle Institute at Florida Hospital from 2002-2008, where he oversaw research compliance and developed a sponsored research program; during his tenure, the Institute’s research portfolio increased significantly. Angelopoulos also formed an innovative grant partnership between Florida Hospital and the University of Central Florida. He created an interdisciplinary team of research-focused physiologists, physicians, nutritionists, registered dieticians, and nurses.
In August 2015, Angelopoulos was awarded the 8th E.W. Barker professorship at Nanyang University, Singapore. As part of his professorship, he gave public lectures and participated in multiple brainstorming meetings with critical senior University administrators. He was also invited to participate in a round table discussion regarding the obesity epidemic in the region at Singapore’s Department of Health. In May 2023, Dr. Angelopoulos was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Department of Sport and Exercise Science of the University of Thessaly, Trikala Greece.
Dr. Angelopoulos has published over 100 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings and mentored more than 40 graduate students, postdocs, and research scientists. He is a fellow of The Obesity Society, a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, and a member of the American Physiological Society. His scientific contributions have advanced the understanding of the impacts of adiposity, exercise, metabolism and physiogenomics on health. In addition, Dr. Angelopoulos is the associate editor of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.