Maria Fiatarone Singh

Prof Maria A. Fiatarone Singh AM, MD, FGSA, FRACP, is a a formally trained, board-certified internist and geriatrician (MD, University of California at San Diego, 1981, Internal Medicine Boston University 1984, Geriatric Medicine, UCLA 1987), and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She has held the inaugural John Sutton Chair of Exercise and Sport Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, and Professorship, Sydney Medical School since 1999, with continuing appointment as Senior Research Associate at Harvard-Affiliate Hebrew Institute for Aging Research since 1987. Her research, teaching and clinical career has focused on the integration of geriatric medicine, exercise, and nutrition to improve quality of life in older adults, and she is recognised internationally for this work spanning over 36 years. She has published extensively, having authored/edited 3 books and over 450 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, position stands, and reviews, with an H-Index of 88 in 2024.  She has been awarded research funding in the US and AU exceeding AUD $85 million to date. Her active clinical practice, student training, and dissemination work is carried out via her directorship of The Centre for Strong Medicine, and in the USA via the Circle of Fitness at Hebrew SeniorLife and the Fit for Your Life Foundation.