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Nora Constantino, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Teaching	Education	Research
	Publications

Contact Information

Office Number: LR 218
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone Number: (775) 682-7099
Email Address: nlc@unr.edu

 

Teaching
CHS 201		The Foundations in Personal Health and Wellness Explore health values, attitudes, and behaviors of self and others.  Design personal fitness and wellness plans.
CHS 470/CHS 670		Principles of Physical Training Gender differences, training across the lifespan, including pregnancy and exercise, children and exercise, and aging and exercise will be discussed in this course. The students will develop exercise prescriptions for all of the populations.
CHS 471/CHS 671		Advanced Exercise Physiology: Cardiopulmonary Physiology Examines the effects of exercise and disease on the cardiopulmonary system and the integration of cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology.

Education

Ph.D. University of Southern California

Research Interests

Physical activity across the lifespan and the effects of hormones on bone density. She is currently working with Nutrition Education Research on a NIH funded grant working with overweight pre-schoolers and their overweight mothers to help prevent childhood obesity.

She is seeking funding with Jeff Elias at the Sanford Center for Aging at the University of Nevada, Reno to determine some of the factors that cause seniors to become less active as the transition from living independently to assisted living facilities.

Publications

Lindsay, A. R., Constantino, N. L. Get Ready, Get Set, Let's Go!: A Model for Promoting Physical Activity. ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal. In review.
Brown-Gordon, K. V., Woodson, J. M., Constantino, N. L. Increasing Physical Activity in African Americans: A Multi-Faceted Approach. ACSM's Health and Fitness Journal. January 2010.
Constantino, N. L., Fleming, N., Robert, F. S. Metabolic Syndrome. The Endocrine Clinics, In review.
Woodson, J. M., Black, J., Marinelli, R. D., Rye, A., Christiansen, E., Constantino, N. L. (2009). Challenges of Collaboration to Address Health Disparities in the Rapidly Growing Community of Las Vegas, Nevada. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 20(3), 824 - 830.
Lindsay, A. R., Constantino, N. L. (2008). Get Ready, Get Set, Let's Go! (ed.). University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.
Woodson, J. M., Christiansen, E., Rye, A., Black, J., Constantino, N. L., Marinelli, R. D. (2008). A Comparison of Findings From Community Health Surveys: 2001 and 2006 (ed.). University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.
Constantino NL, & Sanders ME. Purposeful playground play. IDEA Fitness Journal. 2(6): 34-37, 2005.
Fredericks RS and Constantino NL. Skeletal Mineralization: Understood as the Integration of Proximate and Ultimate Causation. A Physiological Perspective. The Endocrinologist 13(5):381-393, 2003.
M Sanders, K Hills, N Constantino. Golden Wave, Water Fitness for Functional Health on Land, in eds. I Belz, c Glatz, & A Hofmann Lifetime Aquafitness. BOD: Stuttgart, 2003.
Constantino, NL, Hills K, & Sanders ME. (2003). The H2O solution: water exercise and functional fitness. Journal of Active Aging, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 28-32.
Sanders, ME, NL, Constantino. (2003). Making a splash. The Journal on Active Aging, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 34-38.
Sanders, M and Constantino, N (2002). Making Waves with Aquatic Training Journal of Active Aging Vol.1, Issue 5, pp.40-44.
Spoon MP, Devereux PG, Benedict JA, Leontos C, Constantino N, Christy D, Snow G. (2002). Usefulness of the Food Habits Questionnaire in a Worksite Setting. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Vol. 34, pp. 268-272.
M. Sigman-Grant, S. Martin, J. Benedict, N Constantino. Little Lives Inserts: Nurturing Partners: a guide to healthier babies. Birth to Eleven to Twelve Months. FS-02-71 to FS-02-82, 2002.
Wiswell, RA, Hawkins, SA, Jaque, SV, Hyslop, D, Constantino, N, Tarpenning, K, Marcell, T, Schroeder, ET. (2001). Relationship between physiological loss,
performance decrement, and age in master athletes, Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. Vol 56, Issue 10, pp. M618-26.
Wiswell RA, Hawkins SA Jaque SV, Hysloop D, Constantino N Tarpenning K, Marcell T, Schroeder ET. Relationship between physiological loss, performance decrement, and age in master athletes. Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences 2001 Oct;(56):M618-26.
Wiswell RA, Jaque SV, Marcell TJ, Hawkins SA, Tarpenning KM, Constantino NL, Hyslop DM. Maximal aerobic power, lactate threshold, and running performance in master athletes. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 32(6):1165-1170, June 2000.
Hawkins SA, Wiswell RA, Jaque SV, Constantino NL, Marcell TJ, Tarpenning KT, Schroeder ET, Hyslop DM. The inability of hormone replacement therapy or chronic running to maintain trabecular bone mass in master athletes. Journal of Gerontology 1999 Sep;54(9):M451-5.
Spoon M, Constantino N, Benedict J, Snow G, Leontos C, Christy D, Bitonti C, Klomp S. Health at Work a worksite health promotion curriculum. The University of Nevada Cooperation Extension. 1999.
Artal, R. Fortunato, V. Welton, A. Constantino, N. Khodigiuian, N. Villalobos, L. and Wiswell, R. A Comparison of Cardiopulmonary adaptations to exercise in pregnancy at sealevel and altitude. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 172:1170-80,1995.

Rosas, T. & Constantino, N. (1992) Exercise as a treatment modality to maintain normoglycemia in gestational diabetes. The Journal of Peri Neonatal Nutrition , 6(1):14-24.