Bettina Mittendorfer PhD

Bettina Mittendorfer is the NextGen Precision Health Endowed Professor of Medicine and Nutrition & Exercise Physiology and Senior Associate Dean for Research at the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. In addition, Dr. Mittendorfer is the director of the NextGen Clinical and Translational Science Unit, which provides personnel and infrastructure support for sophisticated inpatient and outpatient clinical trials, and the inaugural director of the Metabolic Kinetics Core at the University of Missouri. Before moving to the University of Missouri in Aug 2023, Dr. Mittendorfer has worked a Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO for 24 years, where she last was a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science, the director of the Longevity Research Program, which is supported by the Longer Life Foundation, the director of the NIH-funded Clinical and Translational Research Unit, and the Associate Director of the NIH-funded Washington University Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC). Dr. Mittendorfer’s research focuses on the metabolic and physical function abnormalities associated with obesity and aging and putative therapeutic approaches. She has published over 170 peer-reviewed original research papers, perspectives, and scientific reviews. She serves as Associate Editor for the journals Obesity and J Physiol, and as Associate Editor for Physiological Reviews.