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| Department of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Siobhan M. White
Doctoral Student
A. CONTACT INFORMATION
Siobhan M. White
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health
University of Illinois
340 Freer Hall
906 South Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 244-4510
smwhite1@illinois.edu
B. EDUCATION
- Undergraduate:
- Bachelor of Science, Kinesiology
University of Illinois, December 2005
- Graduate:
- Doctoral Student, Kinesiology and Community Health, emphasis in Exercise Psychology
University of Illinois, 2006-present
2006-2007, University of Illinois
Teaching Assistant:Physical Activity and Health. Responsibilities include designing the course content including lectures, assignments, and examinations; grading assignments and examinations; tutoring students; administering examinations; and lecturing.
- 2006-present, University of Illinois
- Graduate Research Assistant: Exercise Psychology Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Edward McAuley. Primary responsibilities include data collection and analysis; maximal graded exercise testing (GXT); study coordination and training personnel. Additional responsibilities include participant recruitment, screening, and scheduling; exercise group leadership and functional fitness testing. Information regarding specific research projects is listed below.
- Graduate Research Assistant: Exercise Psychology Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Edward McAuley. Primary responsibilities include data collection and analysis; maximal graded exercise testing (GXT); study coordination and training personnel. Additional responsibilities include participant recruitment, screening, and scheduling; exercise group leadership and functional fitness testing. Information regarding specific research projects is listed below.
- Healthy Active Lifestyle Trial (HALT): A 12 month federally funded two arm randomized controlled exercise trial examining the relationship between physical activity, immunilogical markers and cognitive functioning and psychosocial variables in community dwelling older adults. Primary responsibilities include serving as an exercise leader for the walking group, supervising other exercise sessions, data collection, recruitment, screening, scheduling, supervising maximal graded exercise testing, and functional fitness testing.
- Eye Movement Nuerocoupling (ENC): A cross sectional study examining the relationship of fitness to cognitive functioning and eye movement in a sample of older adults. Responsibilities include supervising maximal graded exercise testing and data collection.
- Multidimensional Outcome Expectation for Exercise Scale (MOEES) Design (Independent Study): A cross sectional mail-based project to examine the relationship between outcome expectations, psychosocial factors, and physical activity as well as to develop and validate a comprehensive outcome expectations for exercise scale. Responsibilities include serving as the co-project coordinator, participant recruitment, participant database management, and data collection and analysis.
- Physical Activity and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Survivors (Independent Study): A review of the external validity of the existing literature on the relationship bewteen physical activity and quality of life in breast cancer survivors utilizing the RE-AIM (Reach, Efficacy/Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) framework.
- Eye Movement Nuerocoupling (ENC): A cross sectional study examining the relationship of fitness to cognitive functioning and eye movement in a sample of older adults. Responsibilities include supervising maximal graded exercise testing and data collection.
Exercise Specialist:Primary responsibilities included fitness testing, , consultation on current and desired health and fitness status, instructing introductory group aerobic and strength education classes
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2005, University of Illinois
- Undergraduate Research Assistant: Exercise Psychology Laboratory under the direction of Dr. Edward McAuley. Primary responsibilities included data collection and entry, graded exercise testing, functional fitness testing, BodPod test administration, and participant interviews. Deatials relevant to specific projects listed below.
- Activity, Gait, and Efficacy(AGE): Federally funded longitudinal study examining the relationship between physical activity, physical functioning, quality of life, body composition, and psychosocial funcitoning in older Arfrican American and Caucasian women. Primary responsibilites included conducting participant interviews, performing funcitonal fitness testing, and data entry.
- Freshman Study: Prospective three month pilot project designed to determine the psychosocial determinants of physical activity and nutrition behaviors in college freshman. Responsibilites included body composition assessments using the BodPod (air-displacement plethysmography), met with participants individually to explain and distribute study materials, and performed data collection.
- Physical Activity in Multiple Sclerosis (PhAIM-S): Randomized controlled trial examining the effects of self-efficacy on adherence to an exercise intervention in patients with MS. Performed functional fitness testing.
- Physical Activity and Quality of Life During Menopause (LifePAQ): Randomized controlled exercise trial examining the relationship between physical activity, menopausal symptoms, and quality of life in menopausal women. Performed maximal graded exercise testing.
- Freshman Study: Prospective three month pilot project designed to determine the psychosocial determinants of physical activity and nutrition behaviors in college freshman. Responsibilites included body composition assessments using the BodPod (air-displacement plethysmography), met with participants individually to explain and distribute study materials, and performed data collection.
Undergraduate Research Assistant: Lifetime Fitness Program under the direction of Dr. Ellen Evans. Primary responsibilities included leading older adults in group exercise classes for strength, balance, and flexibility as well as maintaining the participant database and files.
D. SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY:
D.1. REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Wójcicki, T.R., White, S.M. & McAuley, E (in press).The Multidimensional Outcome Expectations for Exercise Scale (MOEES): Development and Validation. Journal of Gerontology B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.
McAuley, E., Doerksen, S.E., Morris, K.S., Motl, R.W., Hu, L., Wójcicki, T.R., White, S.M., & Rosengren, K.R. (in press). Pathways from physical activity to quality of life in older women. Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
McAuley, E., Morris, K.S., Doerksen, S.E., Motl, R.W., Hu, L., White, S.M., Wójcicki, T.R., and Rosengren, K. (2007). Physical activity change effects on functional limitations in older women: Mediating Roles of Physical Function Performance and Self-Efficacy. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 55, 1967-1973
Morris, K.S., Hu, L., Doerksen, S.E., Wójcicki, T.R., White, S.M., & McAuley, E. (2008). Declines in efficacy for gait and balance in older women: The role of demographic factors and health conditions. In Exercise and Women's Health Research. In Columbus, F. (Ed.) Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publication.
D.2.REFEREED PRESENTATIONS
White, S.M., McAuley, E.Improving the health of communities: Issues relative to physical activity in breast cancer survivors. Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Diego, CA, October 2008.
White, S.M., McAuley, E., Estabrooks, P.A. & Courneya, K.C. Physical activity and quality of life in breast cancer survivors: A RE-AIM analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Diego, CA, March 2008.
Klamm, E. L. White, S.M., Morris, K.S., Wojcicki, T. R. & McAuley, E. Predicting cardiorespiratory fitness without maximal exercise testing in older adults. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Diego, CA, March 2008.
Wojcicki, T.R., White, S.M.,& McAuley, E. Outcome expectations in physical activity research: Development and validation of the Exercise and Physical Activity Beliefs Scale. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Diego, CA., March 2008.
Morris, K.S., McAuley, E., Motl, R.W., Hu, L., Wojcicki, T., White, S.M., & Doerksen, S.E. Examing the trajectory of physical activity declines in older women over a two year period: Efficacy and functional limitation influences. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA, November 2007.
White, S.M., Wojcicki, T.R., & McAuley, E.M. Cross-Validation of a Non-Exercise Test Model to Predict Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Older Adults. Paper accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington D.C., March 2007.
Morris, K. S., McAuley, E., Motl, R. W., Doerksen, S. E., Wojcicki, T., White, S., & Hu, L. Physical Activity, Self-Efficacy, and Functional Limitations in Older Women: A Panel Model. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Washington, DC, March 2007.
Morris, K. S., McAuley, E., Hess, J. J., Wojcicki, T., & White, S. Gait, self-efficacy, age, and ethnicity: A latent growth curve analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX, November 2006.
McAuley, E., Konopack, J.F., Doerksen S.E., Morris K.S., Wojcicki T., & White, S. . Functional Limitations and Physical Activity in Older Women: Efficacy, Age, and Ethnicity Effects. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Francisco, CA, March 2006.
E. HONORS AND AWARDS
T.K. Cureton Physical Fitness Research Award Recipient, 2008
University of Illinois Kinesiology Department Graduate Student Travel Grant Recipient,2007
University of Illinois Bronze Tablet Award Recipient, 2005
Helga M. Deutsch Kinesiology Department Scholarship, 2005
F. ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
Society of Behavioral Medicine
American Public Health Association
F. REFERENCES
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