Renee Rogers, PhD

Dr. Rogers is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and the Chair of ACSM’s Strategic Health Initiative (SHI) for Behavior and Program Chair of ACSM’s International Health and Fitness Summit. She blends her background in theater and production with her formal academic training in Exercise Physiology, Behavior Change, and Weight Management to develop and implement innovative health promotion, physical activity and weight management initiatives to promote well-being, reduce sedentary behavior and increase physical activity engagement.

Dr. Rogers has clinical research and translational expertise in the areas of developing and implementing lifestyle behavior-based weight management trials, many of which have integrated technology and media. Dr. Rogers has been developing technology-based interventions using media and video since 2010 creating successful video interventions related to physical activity with progressive strategies for engaging different population groups including older adults, young adults/weight loss, and participants learning yoga. She has also adapted a media intervention into Italian for a project that ran in the US and in Italy. Through these projects, outcomes of engagement, adherence, along with cardiovascular fitness, strength, physical function, cognition and quality of life are being studied.

Dr. Rogers has been asked to Blog on trends and behavior-related and weight management strategies for ACSM, and she has also provided professional comment for popular media outlets such as WSJ, Good Housekeeping, Prevention and many others. Beyond research publications, Dr. Rogers has recently written for The Conversation US where her piece on strategies for staying physically active during quarantine was reprinted in over 50 media outlets. Dr. Rogers is regularly invited to speak on the engagement strategies and intervention design related to building and enhancing a physically active lifestyle.

Dr. Rogers received her B.S. in Exercise Science from Youngstown State University and her Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Pittsburgh.