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
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- Classification and processing of 24-hour wrist accelerometer data (2018)
- Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour
- Eläköityminen mahdollisuutena (2018)
- Duodecim
- Obesity and loss of disease-free years owing to major non-communicable diseases: a multicohort study (2018)
- Lancet Public Health
- Physical activity level as a predictor of healthy and chronic disease-free life expectancy between ages 50 and 75 (2018)
- Age and Ageing
- Predictors of long-term care among nonagenarians: the Vitality 90 + Study with linked data of the care registers (2018)
- Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
- Relationship transitions and change in health behavior: A four-phase, twelve-year longitudinal study (2018)
- Social Science and Medicine
- Sleep Before and After Retirement (2018)
- Current Sleep Medicine Reports
- The benefits of physical activity for older people (2018) The Palgrave Handbook of Ageing and Physical Activity Promotion Koster A., Stenholm S., Schrack J.
- The effect of retirement on subjective and objective sleep characteristics: the Finnish Retirement and Aging study (2018)
- Journal of Sleep Research
- Workplace bullying and violence as risk factors for type 2 diabetes: a multicohort study and meta-analysis (2018)
- Diabetologia
- Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference as Predictors of Disability in Nonagenarians: The Vitality 90+Study (2017)
- Journals of Gerontology, Series A
- Body mass index as a predictor of healthy and disease-free life expectancy between ages 50 and 75: a multicohort study (2017)
- International Journal of Obesity
- Change in body mass index during transition to statutory retirement: an occupational cohort study (2017)
- International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
- Change in Job Strain as A Predictor of Change in Insomnia Symptoms: Analyzing Observational Data as A Non-randomized Pseudo-Trial (2017)
- Sleep
- Change in organizational justice as a predictor of insomnia symptoms: longitudinal study analysing observational data as a non-randomized pseudo-trial (2017)
- International Journal of Epidemiology
- Changes in Sleep Duration During Transition to Statutory Retirement: A Longitudinal Cohort Study (2017)
- Sleep
- Does retirement benefit health? (2017)
- Preventive Medicine
- International differences in the risk of death from smoking and obesity: The case of the United States and Finland (2017)
- SSM - Population Health
- Occupational class and working beyond the retirement age: a cohort study (2017)
- Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health
- Physical occupational exposures and health expectancies in a French occupational cohort (2017)
- Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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