Interests
- Nighttime pre-sleep feeding strategies to optimize metabolism, recovery from exercise, body composition, performance and health.
- Exercise training and nutritional interventions to prevent obesity-related diseases, achieve optimal body composition, and maximize human performance in both healthy (athletes) and diseased populations.
- The role of macronutrients (with particular emphasis on both protein and carbohydrate/modified-carbohydrate) ingestion on fat metabolism and performance
- Sports nutrition and dietary supplements
- Hormonal influence on performance, energy metabolism, and body composition
- The physiological impact of ultra-endurance exercise
Education
- Postdoctoral Training/Visiting Professor, Skidmore College (2008-2010)
- Ph.D. in Bioenergetics (interdisciplinary program in Exercise Science, Physiology & Nutrient Biochemistry) from East Carolina University. (2008)
- M.S. in Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (Exercise Physiology and Sports Nutrition Emphasis) from South Dakota State University (2005)
- B.S. in Exercise Science and Business from Skidmore College. (2002)
Publications and Other Scholarly Activities
Dr. Ormsbee regularly publishes in the top exercise and sports nutrition journals.
Accomplishments
- 2013 FSU Transformation Through Teaching Award Winner
- 2014 FSU Undergraduate Teacher of the Year
- 2015 FSU Guardian of the Flame Award Winner, Burning Spear Society
- 2017 NSCA Nutrition Researcher of the Year
- 2018 FSU Graduate Student Mentor of the Year
- 2020 FSU Distinguished Teacher of the Year
- 2020 NSCA Sport Scientist of the Year
- Fellow, American College of Sports Medicine
- Fellow, International Society of Sports Nutrition
- Former NCAA Collegiate Ice Hockey Player
- Two-time 70.3 Ironman Finisher
- Lecturer for The Great Courses (https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/changing-body-composition-through-diet-and-exercise.html)