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Roberto Lobelo, MD, PhD, FAHA

R.L. Felipe Lobelo, MD, PhD, FAHA

Biography

R.L. Felipe Lobelo, MD, PhD, FAHA, is an associate professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health of Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He is also a senior physician consultant for population health research in the Department of Quality and Patient Safety at the Southeast Permanente Medical Group.

Dr. Lobelo is a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.

Education

Dr. Lobelo earned his Medical Degree in 2002 from Rosario University School of Medicine in Bogota, Colombia. He then completed his specialization in clinical Epidemiology (master's Equivalency) from Rosario University in 2004. He went on to earn his PhD in Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina in 2010. He also completed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program (Class of 2008) serving as an EIS officer in the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

Titles & Roles

  • Associate Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health
    Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Research

Dr. Lobelo focuses on cancer and other chronic disease primary, secondary and tertiary prevention via lifestyle interventions and exercise medicine.

Publications

Title/Journal Authors Publication Date

Bicycle infrastructure and the incidence rate of crashes with cars: A case-control study with Strava data in Atlanta.

Journal of transport & health

 MD Garber, KE Watkins, WD Flanders, MR Kramer, RLF Lobelo, SJ Mooney, DJ Ederer, LE McCullough 09/01/2023

Have Paved Trails and Protected Bike Lanes Led to More Bicycling in Atlanta?: A Generalized Synthetic-Control Analysis.

Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)

 MD Garber, WD Flanders, KE Watkins, F Lobelo, MR Kramer, LE McCullough 07/01/2022

At-risk-measure Sampling in Case-Control Studies with Aggregated Data.

Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)

 MD Garber, LE McCullough, SJ Mooney, MR Kramer, KE Watkins, RLF Lobelo, WD Flanders 01/01/2021

Awards

Dr. Lobelo received the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award from the Department of Exercise Science of the University of South Carolina, 2008. Before that he received the Paffenbarger-Blair Award for Research on Physical Activity Epidemiology from the American College of Sports Medicine, 2006.