Felipe Lobelo
Faculty, Global Health
Felipe Lobelo, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA, is an Associate Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health and Senior Physician Consultant for Population Health Research, Department of Quality and Patient Safety, The Southeast Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Permanente Georgia.
His interests are in chronic disease prevention, implementation science, mHealth and population health and quality improvements leveraging clinical-community linkages. He has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific publications and directs the Exercise is Medicine Global Research and Collaboration Center. Dr. Lobelo has a special interest in global health and health disparities in both non-communicable and infectious diseases.
From 2008 to 2010 he served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer at CDC and was involved in international epidemiological field investigations, having an active role in CDC's H1N1 response; investigating the outbreak abroad and serving as CDC's spokesperson for Hispanic/Latino populations. His work with H1N1 took him to the White House, where he served as the CDC representative in the first-ever Spanish Town Hall Meeting alongside President Obama and around the nation for vaccine campaign outreach events for at-risk populations/minorities. From 2010 to 2014, Dr Lobelo served in various roles as a Medical Epidemiologist at CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention in their Office of the Director and their Diabetes Translation and Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity divisions. In 2012 was selected as Fellow of the American Heart Association and currently Chairs their Physical Activity Committee.
Dr. Lobelo believes in "practicing what you preach" and strongly advocates for doctors to become healthy role models. He enjoys soccer and plays for the US Medical Soccer Team, the US representative in the Annual "World Cup for Doctors".
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2006 – Paffenbarger-Blair Award for Research on Physical Activity Epidemiology, American College of Sports Medicine
2008 – Doctoral Achievement Award, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
2008 – Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Study, The Graduate School, University of South Carolina
2008 – Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, Mu chapter
2008 – Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, Department of Exercise Science, University of South Carolina
2012 – Fellow, American Heart Association, Council on Lifestyle and Cardio-metabolic Health
2013 – Fellow, CDC's Office of the Associate Director for Science
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Cardiometabolic Diseases
Exercise Science/ Physical Activity
MD 2002, Rosario Medical School
MEQ 2004, Rosario University, Bogota, Colombia
PhD 2008, University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health
EIS (Post-Doc) 2010, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
GH 579: Chronic Dis.Control/Prevention
Affiliations & Activities
Director, Exercise is Medicine Global Research and Collaboration Center
Core Faculty, Emory Global Diabetes Research Center
Director, Emory Physical Activity Research Interest Group (EPAWG)
Member, US Medical Soccer Team
Elected/Appointed Positions
2009 - 2014 CDC Official Spokesperson
2011- Chair, Exercise is Medicine Pediatrics Committee, American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM)
2012 - United States Medical Soccer Team
2014- Advisory Board, Exercise is Medicine Initiative, ACSM;
2015 - Editorial Board, International Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
2017 - Chair, Physical Activity Committee, Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health, American Heart Association
My NCBI/PUBMED Bibliography
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Lobelo F, Stoutenberg M, Hutber A., 2014, The Exercise is Medicine Global Health Initiative: a 2014 update., Br J Sports Med. , ,
Lee IM, Shiroma EJ, Lobelo F, Puska P, Blair SN, Katzmarzyk PT; Lancet Physical Activity Series Working Group., 2012, Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy., The Lancet, ,
Garber MD, Sajuria M, Lobelo F., 2014, Geographical variation in health-related physical fitness and body composition among Chilean 8th graders: a nationally representative cross-sectional study., PLoS One, ,
Lobelo F, Garcia de Quevedo I, Holub CK, Nagle BJ, Arredondo EM, Barquera S, Elder JP., 2013, School-based programs aimed at the prevention and treatment of obesity: evidence-based interventions for youth in Latin America, J Sch Health, 83, 668-77
Lobelo F, Garcia de Quevedo I, 2014, The evidence in support of physicians and health care providers as physical activity role models, Am Journal Lifestyle Medicine, ,
Gallegos-Carrillo K, García-Peña C, Salmerón J, Salgado-de-Snyder N, Lobelo F5., 2017, Brief Counseling and Exercise Referral Scheme: A Pragmatic Trial in Mexico, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, ,
Felipe Lobelo, Deborah Rohm Young, Robert Sallis, Michael D. Garber, Sandra A. Billinger, John Duperly, Adrian Hutber, Russell R. Pate, Randal J. Thomas, Michael E. Widlansky, Michael V. McConnell, Elizabeth A. Joy, 2018, Routine Assessment and Promotion of Physical Activity in Healthcare Settings: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association, Circulation, Originally published April 4, 2018,
Bellissimo MP, Galaviz KI, Paskert MC, Lobelo F., 2018, Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction Through Recreational Group Sport Interventions in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. , Mayo Clinic Proceedings, ,