Sari Stenholm
Professor
samast@utu.fi +358 29 450 2755 +358 50 465 1745 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku |
Public Health; Gerontology; Epidemiology; Obesity; Sarcopenia; Physical Fitness; Physical activity; Accelerometry; Aging; Retirement
Selected earlier employment
- 2015-2020
Academy Research Fellow, University of Turku - 2014-2015
Professor of gerontology, University of Tampere - 2013-2015
Senior Researcher, University of Turku - 2010-2013
Senior Researcher, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku /
Helsinki - 2007-2009
Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, National
Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA - 2004-2007
Researcher, National Public Health Institute, Turku
Ongoing studies as a PI
Finnish
Retirement and Aging study (FIREA), 2013– (www.utu.fi/firea ).
- Aim: Examine changes in health behaviors, health, and
functioning before and after retirement transition - Funders: Academy of Finland, Ministry of Education and
Culture, Juho Vainio Foundation, Hospital District of Southwest Finland
REACT
intervention (Enhancing physical activity and healthy aging among recent
retirees – Randomized controlled in-home physical activity trial, NCT03320746),
2017–
intervention (Enhancing physical activity and healthy aging among recent
retirees – Randomized controlled in-home physical activity trial, NCT03320746),
2017–
Aim: Examine and evaluate the effectiveness of technology-supported
physical activity intervention among recent retireesFunders: Academy of Finland, Ministry of Education and
Culture, Juho Vainio Foundation
Factors
predicting extension of working life among aging workers, 2018–
predicting extension of working life among aging workers, 2018–
- Aim: Predictors and health consequences of extended
working life - Funder: Finnish Work Environment Fund
Awards and other honors
- Prize
for Promising researcher in gerontology, the Nordic Gerontology
Federation, 2014. - Paper
award, 2nd place, Finnish Society of Sport Sciences, 2016.
International research visits
- Visiting Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public
Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston, MA, USA, June 2017 – July 2017 - Visiting Scientist, National Institutes of Health,
National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA, September 2012 – October 2012 - Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, National Institutes of
Health, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, USA, November 2007 –
November 2009
Publications
- 119 in international peer-reviewed journals and 5 in
Finnish peer-reviewed journals - 34 first authorship, 17 last authorship
- H index 26
Other academic activities
Editorial board membership
- Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences
- Scandinavian Journal for Work, Environment &
Health
Positions of trust
- Member of Advisory Board, Center for Healthy Aging,
University of Copenhagen - Member of Research Faculty at the Medical Faculty in
University of Turku - Member of Scientific Committee, Nordic Gerontological
Federation (NGF)
Research training merits
- Experience in supervising PhD students (2 completed,
10 ongoing) and postdoctoral fellows - Opponent (4 times) or
examiner for PhD thesis (3 times)
Grant reviewer
- Expert reviewing panel in the Swedish Research Council
- Several other grant reviews for international funding institutes
- Comparison between recent and long-term physical activity levels as predictors of cardiometabolic risk: A cohort study (2020)
- BMJ Open
- Comparison of Sedentary Time Between Thigh-Worn and Wrist-Worn Accelerometers (2020)
- Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour
- Concurrent changes in sleep and physical activity during the transition to retirement: a prospective cohort study (2020)
- Sleep Medicine
- Cross-sectional associations of neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and greenness with accelerometer-measured leisure-time physical activity in a cohort of ageing workers (2020)
- BMJ Open
- Diet quality as a predictor of cardiometabolic disease-free life expectancy: the Whitehall II cohort study (2020)
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Effort-reward imbalance at work and risk of type 2 diabetes in a national sample of 50,552 workers in Denmark: A prospective study linking survey and register data (2020)
- Journal of Psychosomatic Research
- Emerging collaborative research platforms for the next generation of physical activity, sleep and exercise medicine guidelines: The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep consortium (ProPASS) (2020)
- British Journal of Sports Medicine
- Excess body weight, cigarette smoking, and type II diabetes incidence in the national FINRISK studies (2020)
- Annals of Epidemiology
- Lisää liikettä töihin ja eläkevuosiin (2020)
- Pro terveys
- Objectively Measured Sedentary Time Before and After Transition to Retirement: The Finnish Retirement and Aging Study (2020)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
- Onset of Workplace Bullying and Risk of Weight Gain: A Multicohort Longitudinal Study (2020)
- Obesity
- Operationalization of a frailty index among older adults in the InCHIANTI study: predictive ability for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality (2020)
- Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
- Physical Activity across Retirement Transition by Occupation and Mode of Commute (2020)
- Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
- Psychotropic medication before and after disability retirement by pre-retirement perceived work-related stress (2020)
- European Journal of Public Health
- Sleep tracking of a commercially available smart ring and smartwatch against medical-grade actigraphy in everyday settings: instrument validation study (2020)
- JMIR mHealth and uHealth
- Socioeconomic Inequalities in Disability-free Life Expectancy in Older People from England and the United States: A Cross-national Population-Based Study (2020)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
- The relation of work-related factors with ambulatory blood pressure and nocturnal blood pressure dipping among aging workers (2020)
- International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
- Thigh-worn accelerometry for measuring movement and posture across the 24-hour cycle: a scoping review and expert statement (2020)
- BMJ Open Sport and Exercise Medicine
- Trajectories of self-rated health before and after retirement: Evidence from two cohort studies (2020)
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Changes in Smoking During Retirement Transition: A Longitudinal Cohort Study (2019)
- Scandinavian Journal of Public Health