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Catherine Yeckel, PhD

Senior Lecturer of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)
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Senior Lecturer of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences)

Biography

Catherine Weikart Yeckel, MS, Ph.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor. She received a master’s degree in exercise physiology from the University of Pittsburgh and a doctoral degree from University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)-Galveston in preventive medicine and community health in the areas of human metabolism and nutrition. In collaboration with researchers at UTMB-Galveston, and more recently with researchers and clinicians specializing in pediatric and adult endocrinology at the Yale School of Medicine, she focused her research interests along the spectrum of insulin resistance and ß-cell dysfunction. These interests broadly include cardiometabolic health issues and protection as a consequence of obesity from young to old age, and physical activity/fitness from sedentary to physically fit. She has used physiological challenge models to unmask the impact of arsenic exposure on blood pressure (stress) hyperreactivity, and most recently, to help innovate imaging for brown adipose tissue metabolism in human. Dr. Yeckel created and directs an integrative course for YSPH, Physiology of Public Health. She also initiated and co-directed The Art of Public Health workshops involving MPH and MA student match-ups between YSPH and YSA. She serves as a reviewer/scientific advisor and consultant for diverse entities, including government agencies, museums and companies.

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Education & Training

PhD
University of Texas at Galveston (2001)
MS
University of Pittsburgh (1992)
BA
Oberlin College (1983)

Research

Overview

  • Maximal exercise recovery as a model for insulin resistance and beta-cell function.
  • Mild cold and PET-imaging to examine the norepinephine reuptake transporter in human brown adipose tissue
  • Cardiovascular risk from exposure to inorganic arsenic in drinking water
  • Inter-individual differences in inorganic arsenic metabolic partitioning and low birth weight outcome.
  • Collaboration (animal model): Integration nutrient sensing pathways

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Adipose Tissue, Brown; Autonomic Nervous System; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Insulin Resistance; Metabolic Syndrome; Obesity; Romania

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Catherine Yeckel's published research.

Publications

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • activity

    Cardiovascular risk in Romania

  • activity

    Low birth weight in Romania

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Environmental Health Sciences

PO Box 208034, 60 College Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8034

United States

Locations

  • 135 College Street

    Academic Office

    Ste 200

    New Haven, CT 06510