Mary Miles, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Food Systems, Nutrition, and Kinesiology and Associate Dean of Research in the College of Education, Health, and Human Development at Montana State University, Bozeman. She earned her doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and completed postdoctoral fellowship research training at Penn State University, State College. Her research team works in a multidisciplinary environment to investigate interactions between metabolism and health, with the goal of developing therapeutic strategies to reduce risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes and CVD. Her research incorporates cellular and molecular concepts with metabolism and whole-body outcomes relating the influence and interaction of nutrition and exercise on metabolic disease, with particular interest in strategies to decrease disease risk by lowering inflammation. This research typically involves conducting randomized, clinical trials with both healthy and elevated metabolic disease risk populations.