Dr. Michael Ormsbee

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

• Fellow, National Academy of Kinesiology
• 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)