Dr. Leslie Consitt is an associate professor of physiology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Ohio University and as of 2021, she holds the Ralph S Licklider, DO, Endowed Research Fellowship in Enhanced Metabolic Aging.
Leslie graduated from UNCG with her PhD in Kinesiology in December of 2005 and completed a post-doctoral research position at ECU in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science in 2010. She started as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Ohio University and was named to the graduate faculty at that time. She is a principal investigator at the Ohio Musculoskeletal & Neurological Institute (OMNI) and Diabetes Institute at Ohio University.
Dr. Consitt’s research interests involve studying the metabolic properties of skeletal muscle in conditions such as obesity, diabetes and aging. She is particularly interested in elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms contributing to skeletal muscle insulin sensitivity and lipid metabolism and the impact that exercise and diet modification may have on these mechanisms.
Dr. Consitt is a productive scholar with 22 journal articles, 2 invited reviews, 2 book chapters, and 23 published abstracts. She has 4 active externally funded grants, including funding from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and American Heart Association. Leslie is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of young scientists, securing continuous funding from various sources for undergraduate research assistants in her lab from 2013-2021.
Since starting her position at Ohio University in 2011, Leslie has mentored 13 undergraduate students, 5 medical students, and has served on 4 doctoral committees. She has also been recognized internationally for her expertise, providing external grant reviews for Research Agencies in Hong Kong, France, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom and nationally as an Ad Hoc reviewer for the MCE (Molecular & Cellular Endocrinology) and Basic Mechanisms of Diabetes and Metabolism (BMDM) study sections for NIH.