​​Dr. Lee Stoner
PhD, MPH, FRSPH, SFHEA, FACSM, ACSM-EIM, ACSM-RCEP 
CML Director
​​Dept. Exercise and Sport Science
306 Woollen Gym, CB# 8605
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-8700
​Curriculum Vitae

Contact Me If...

  • Student or postdoc: and want to join the CML team.
  • Journalist: would like me to assist with a story.
    • Keywords: lifestyle, activity behaviors, sedentary behavior, policy, translation, cardiovascular disease, cardiometabolic disease, chronic diseases.
  • Scientist: who'd like to chat about science, possible collaboration, or arranging a talk
  • Clinician/practitioner: who'd like advice on lifestyle behaviors and chronic disease or with translating science
  • Anyone: who wants to talk science!

About Me

​Education
  • 2016: MPH (Distinction),  Massey University, New Zealand
  • 2007: Postdoc, Lipid and Diabetes Research Group, New Zealand
  • 2006: PhD, Exercise Physiology, University of Georgia, USA
  • 2002: MA, Exercise Physiology, University of Georgia, USA
  • ​2000: BS (hons, 1st class), Sport Sciences with Management, Brunel University, UK

Example Honors
  • 2018: Fellow (FACSM), American College of Sports Medicine
  • 2015: Fellow (FRSPH), Royal Society for Public Health
  • 2015: Senior Fellow (SFHEA), The Higher Education Academy
  • 2014: Early Career Research Medal, Massey University
  • 2014: Early Career Research Award, Massey University (College of Health)

Research Interests (Short Version) 
I am interested in “tuning your ticker”. More specifically, I am interested in the following inter-related lines of enquiry:
  • Interactions between lifestyle behaviors and cardiometabolic disease etiology across the lifespan.
    • In particular, sedentary behavior and young adults. 
  • The development and interpretation of methodologies for assessing cardiometabolic health.
  • The translation of basic and applied science into public health outcomes.

Research Interests (Longer version)
My expertise in assessing health outcomes, coupled with my background in physiology and public health, has supported research in complex physiological/biomedical questions in a range of non-clinical and clinical (e.g., spinal cord injury, stroke, breast cancer, type 2 diabetics) populations. Long-term, I am particularly interested in helping facilitate the development of sedentary behavior-reduction policy. National and international public health agencies, including the World Health Organization, have called on the research community to better understand how to implement sedentary behavior-reduction strategies. This call follows these agencies recognizing that (i) sedentary behavior is a biologically distinct behavior, and (ii) the association of sedentary behavior with CVD is moderate to strong. I serve as the PI for two grants that will contribute to my long-term goal. The first grant (1R01HL157187-01A1) will enhance our understanding of how repeated exposure to sedentary behavior contributes to the manifestation of CVD, then use this knowledge to inform sedentary behavior interruption strategies. The second grant (R01HL162805A) will further our understanding of the importance of sedentary behavior context and co-occurring behaviors to cardiometabolic disease risk.

​Career Goals
  • To help lead the development of sedentary behavior reduction policy to mitigate cardiovascular disease risk.
  • To be the best mentor I can be!

Personal Facts
  • I'm a citizen of the UK and New Zealand
  • I'm married to Rebecca and out stepdaughter is Emma. We also have Harry (Golden Doodle), Chili (black cat) and Ralphie (Tabby cat)
  • I love to travel. I've been to 6 of the 7 continents (missing Antarctica).
  • I'm trying to learn photography.
  • I boxed for 15 years.
  • I'm a first-generation college student.

Research Outputs

Key Facts
Updated:  2023.Feb.22
  • Citations: 6,376
  • H-index: 43
  • i10-index: 129
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Example Recent Funding
​For a more complete list see FUNDING.
  • ​R01HL162805A (PI: Stoner). Cardiometabolic disease prevention in college-based young adults: mapping a contextual sedentary behavior intervention. 06/2022-05/2026. Link
  • R01HL157187 (PI: Stoner). Sitting Behavior and Whole-body Cardiovascular Health: from Mechanism to Intervention. 03/2022-12/2025. Link
  • R01HL157075-01 (PI: Meyer, Boggess). Arterial Stiffness in Mother/Infant Dyads: A Life Course Approach to CVD prevention. 08/2021-07/2025
  • R01NR017944 (PI: Yeo). Promoting stretching exercise to reduce cardiovascular health risk in late pregnant women with obesity. 08/2019-05/2024

Example Publications
  • Higgins S, Pomeroy A, Bates LC, Paterson C, Barone Gibbs B, Pontzer H, Stoner L. Sedentary behavior and cardiovascular disease risk: An evolutionary perspective. Front Physiol. 2022;13:962791. PMCID: PMC9363656
  • Stoner L, Barone Gibbs B, Meyer ML, Fryer S, Credeur D, Paterson C, Stone K, Hanson ED, Kowalsky RJ, Horiuchi M, Mack CP, Dave G.. A Primer on Repeated Sitting Exposure and the Cardiovascular System: Considerations for Study Design, Analysis, Interpretation, and Translation. Front Cardiovasc Med 2021; 8:716938. PMCID: PMC8415972.
  • Kelsch E, Diana J, Burnet K, Hanson E, Fryer S, Credeur D, Stone K, Stoner L. Arterial stiffness responses to prolonged sitting combined with a high glycemic index meal: A Double-Blind, Randomized Cross-Over Trial. JAP. 2021, 131:229-37. PMID: 34043475.
  • Stanford K, Pomeroy A, Bates LCC, Tamminga K, Chai T, Brookey L, Moore J, Stoner L. Exercise is Medicine on Campus During COVID-19: Necessary Adaptations and Continuing Importance. Transl J Am Coll Sports Med. 2020, 5:e000157. Link
  • Paterson C, Fryer F, Zieff G, Stone K, Credeur DP, Barone Gibbs B, Padilla J, Stoner L. The effects of acute exposure to prolonged sitting, with and without interruption, on endothelial function among adults: A meta-analysis. Sports Med. 2020, 50:1929-42. PMID: 32757163
  • Stoner L, Pontzer H, Barone Gibbs B, Moore JN, Castro N, Skidmore P, Lark S, Williams MA, Hamlin ML, Faulkner J. Fitness and Fatness are Both Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk in Pre-Adolescents. J Pediatr. 2020, 207:39-45. PMID: 31759583
  • Stoner L, Meyer ML, Kucharka-Newton A, Stone K, Zieff G, Dave G, Fryer S, Credeur D, Faulkner J, Matsushita K, Hughes TM, (2020). Tanaka H. Associations between carotid-femoral and heart-femoral pulse wave velocity in older adults: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. J Hypertens. 2020;38(9):1786-1793. PMID: 32371771.
  • Stoner L, Willey Q, Evans W, Burnet K, Credeur D, Fryer S, Hanson ED. Effects of acute prolonged sitting on cerebral perfusion and executive function in young adults: a randomized cross-over trial. Psychophysiology.2019; 56(12): e13457. PMID: 31420883.
  • ​Kucharska-Newton A, Stoner L, Mayer ML. Determinants of vascular age: an epidemiological perspective. Clin Chem. 2019;65(1):108-118. PMID: 30459170.
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Example Presentations
  • Stoner L, Pomeroy A, Bates LC, Paterson C, Higgins S. The History of Sedentary Behavior: An Evolutionary Perspective. SEACSM. Greenville, SC. Feb 17, 2022. [Symposium]
    Moore J, Stoner L, Hissings S, Blue M, Smith-Ryan A. The evolution of exercise and sports science: interdisciplinary teams and the future of the field. SEACSM. Greenville, SC. Feb 17, 2022. [Symposium]
    Stoner L, Zieff G, Vermeesch A, Bates LCC, Pagan Lassalle P. COVID-19 and Exercise is Medicine for Underserved Communities: Lessons learned, future challenges and recommendations. ACSM. San Diego, CA. May 31, 2022. [Symposium]
  • Stoner L. Interrupting Sedentary Behavior to Mitigate Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Considerations for Policy Development. Mizzou. MO. Sep 01, 2022. [Invited Talk]. Link​
  • Stoner L. The 24-Hour Activity Cycle and Effects on Health: Strategies for the COVID Experience and Beyond. NPAOPP. Delaware, Pub. Health. Jun 17, 2021. [Webinar]
  • Stoner L, Zieff G. Pulse Wave Velocity: Theory, Applications, Methods, and Future Directions. IS. Virtual. Apr 08, 2021. [Webinar]. Link
  • Stanford K, Pomeroy A, Stoner L. EIM-OC March Webinar: The relevance of best practices surrounding programming in the midst of COVID. ACSM. Virtual. Mar 16, 2021. [Webinar]
  • Malin S, Stoner L, Sarzynski M. Cardiometabolic Risk Across the Lifespan: Insulin Resistance, Metabolomics & Measurement. Stoner: Cardiometabolic health in children: looking beyond obesity. ACSM. Minneapolis, MN. May 29, 2018. [Symposium]

Example Service

Mentor
  • AHA: HBCU Scholars Program. Link
  • UNC: CONVENAT Scholars. Link
  • UNC: MPH EQUITY. Link 
  • North Carolina School of Science & Math (NCSSM): High school mentorship program. Link
  • NIH: Wake Forest School of Medicine Short-Term Research Experience Program to Unlock Potential (WFSM STEP-UP)(High School students. Link

UNC
  • Developed/Director: Exercise is Medicine on Campus @ UNC (EIM@UNC). Link
  • Developed/Lead: Pre-doc and Post-doc grants development program.
  • Faculty Leader: Exercise is Medicine on Campus (EIM-OC) club

Societies
  • Chair: Noninvasive Physiological Measurement (ACSM-NIP) Interest Group. 
  • Exercise is Medicine (EIM) – Underserved & Community Health. Link
  • VascAgeNet - various working groups.

Editorial
  • Associate Editor: Front Physiol. Link
  • Associate Editor: Front Sports Active Living.  Link
  • Associate Editor: Front Cardiovasc Med. Link
  • Associate Editor: Rev Cardiovasc Med. Link
  • Editorial Board: Trans J of ACSM. Link
  • Editorial Board: Medicinia. Link
  • Editorial Board: Children. Link

Grant Review
  • NIH
  • The Academy of Medical Sciences, UK
  • Health Research Council (HRC), New Zealand
  • German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • Institut of Fundamental Technological Research (ZSI)