Rate My Professor Shelley Keating

Associate Professor Shelley Keating is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist and Associate Professor in Clinical Exercise Physiology at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Queensland. She earned a Bachelor of Exercise Science and Rehabilitation (Honours Class 1) from the University of Wollongong, a Master of Exercise and Sport Science in Clinical Exercise Science from the University of Sydney, and a PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Sydney. With over 18 years of clinical experience, she has developed, delivered, and disseminated exercise interventions for adults with obesity and related chronic diseases. As an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, she previously held an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship from 2017 to 2022 titled 'One size does not fit all: personalised exercise strategies to improve cardiovascular and metabolic health in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.' She leads a multidisciplinary research program focused on exercise metabolism, body composition, and lifestyle interventions for obesity, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), and type 2 diabetes. Her work emphasizes optimizing exercise dose—frequency, intensity, time, and type—to maximize health benefits, particularly through high-intensity interval training, and advancing body composition assessment techniques for cardiometabolic risk evaluation. She has contributed to national and international exercise guidelines for MASLD and type 2 diabetes management, including the American College of Sports Medicine International Multidisciplinary Roundtable report on physical activity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.