Measurement of physical activity and functional capacity, and their influence on the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease as well as healthy aging with focus in postmenopausal women. Also interested in how studying the human microbiome and metabolome can enhance understanding of mechanisms linking modifiable risk factors to diseases of aging.
Prior to joining the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Mike held positions as the director of epidemiologic research at the Cooper Institute (Dallas, TX), an assistant professor (Cardiology) at the University of Utah Medical School and director of the Exercise Testing Laboratory Cardiology Division at LDS Hospital (Salt Lake City, UT), and as an assistant professor of Exercise Science at Marshall University (Huntington, WV).