Kenneth Wilund
Work Summary
Professor Wilund is the new Director of the School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness at the University of Arizona. Prior to coming to Arizona, he was a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 19 years. His education and training includes a B.S. degree in Nutritional Sciences and a PhD in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland. He also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The focus of Professor Wilund’s research is examining the effects of exercise training and nutritional factors on cardiovascular health and muscle wasting in in patients with kidney failure.