Debra Lynn Waters is a New Zealand exercise physiologist and medical researcher in the field of health ageing, director of Gerontology Research and professor at the University of Otago.

Academic career

With a BS and PhD, ^[1] exercise physiologist Waters moved from the University of New Mexico, where she retains the role of adjunct professor, ^[2] to the University of Otago in New Zealand in 2005. ^[3] In December 2019 Waters was promoted to full professor at the University of Otago with effect from 1 February 2020. ^{[4] [5]}

Waters has led research into falls prevention through the Steady As You Go programme since 2010. ^[6] Early in 2019 Waters and Louise Parr-Brownlie were appointed joint directors of New Zealand's Ageing Well National Science Challenge. The programme conducts research into health ageing, including ageing and Māori and researchers in universities across New Zealand participate. ^[7]

Waters became editor-in-chief of the Australasian Journal on Ageing in January 2021. ^{[8] [2]} She is on the editorial board of The Journal of Frailty & Aging ^[9] and an editor of Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research. ^[10]

Selected works

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• Claire Freeman; Debra L Waters; Yvette Buttery; Yolanda van Heezik (25 January 2019). "The impacts of ageing on connection to nature: the varied responses of older adults". Health & Place. 56: 24–33. doi: 10.1016/J.HEALTHPLACE.2019.01.010. ISSN  1353-8292. PMID  30690279. Wikidata  Q91251743.
• Lara Vlietstra; Simon Stebbings; Kim Meredith-Jones; John Haxby Abbott; Gareth Treharne; Debra L Waters (6 June 2019). "Sarcopenia in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis: The association with self-reported fatigue, physical function and obesity". PLOS One. 14 (6): e0217462. doi: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0217462. ISSN  1932-6203. PMC  6553728. PMID  31170172. Wikidata  Q92562240.
• Sarah Rhodes; Debra Waters; Ben Brockway; Margot Skinner (1 September 2020). "Physical activity behaviour and barriers to activity in adults at high risk of obstructive sleep apnoea". Journal of Primary Health Care. 12 (3): 257–264. doi: 10.1071/HC19102. ISSN  1172-6156. PMID  32988447. Wikidata  Q100314581.
• Lara Vlietstra; Debra Waters; Lynnette Jones; Kim Meredith-Jones (16 October 2020). "High-Intensity Interval Aerobic Resistance Training to Counteract Low Relative Appendicular Lean Soft Tissue Mass in Middle Age: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial". JMIR research protocols. 9 (10): e22989. doi: 10.2196/22989. ISSN  1929-0748. PMID  33064101. Wikidata  Q100672972.

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