Debra Waters
{{Short description|New Zealand exercise physiologist and health ageing researcher}}
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| fields = Healthy ageing, sarcopenia
| workplaces = University of New Mexico
University of Otago
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Debra Lynn Waters is a New Zealand exercise physiologist and medical researcher in the field of health ageing, director of Gerontology Research and professor at the University of Otago.
Academic career
With a BS and PhD,{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=Professor Debra Waters|url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/dsm-medicine/people/Profile/?id=835|access-date=2021-02-16|website=University of Otago|language=en-nz}} exercise physiologist Waters moved from the University of New Mexico, where she retains the role of adjunct professor, to the University of Otago in New Zealand in 2005.{{Cite web|title=Professor Debra Waters|url=https://www.ageconcern.org.nz/Conference2020/Speakers/Day_one/Professor_Debra_Waters/Conference2020/allspeakers/Professor_Debra_Waters.aspx|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-16|website=Age Concern New Zealand|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130101812/https://www.ageconcern.org.nz/Conference2020/Speakers/Day_one/Professor_Debra_Waters/Conference2020/allspeakers/Professor_Debra_Waters.aspx |archive-date=30 January 2021 }} In December 2019 Waters was promoted to full professor at the University of Otago with effect from 1 February 2020.{{Cite web|date=2019-12-13|title=Promotions celebrate Otago academics' contributions|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/university-of-otago/promotions-celebrate-otago-academics%E2%80%99-contributions|access-date=2021-02-16|website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2019-12-10|title=30 new Professors for the University of Otago|url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago729509.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-16|website=University of Otago|language=en-nz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200404004225/https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago729509.html |archive-date=4 April 2020 }}
Waters has led research into falls prevention through the Steady As You Go programme since 2010.{{Cite web|title=Associate Professor Debra Waters|url=https://ageconcern.org.nz/Conference2018/Speakers/Day_Two/Debra_Waters/Conference2018/allspeakers/Debra%20Waters.aspx?hkey=6eb99372-e32b-49b2-b5b3-69f1bbabadd6|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-16|website=Age Concerns Everyone Conference 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181224152116/http://www.ageconcern.org.nz:80/Conference2018/Speakers/Day_Two/Debra_Waters/Conference2018/allspeakers/Debra%20Waters.aspx?hkey=6eb99372-e32b-49b2-b5b3-69f1bbabadd6 |archive-date=24 December 2018 }} Early in 2019 Waters and Louise Parr-Brownlie were appointed joint directors of New Zealand's Ageing Well National Science Challenge. The programme conducts research into health ageing, including ageing and Māori and researchers in universities across New Zealand participate.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2019-02-13|title=New Heads to lead Ageing Well National Science Challenge|url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagobulletin/news/otago705461.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-16|website=University of Otago|language=en-nz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307012038/https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagobulletin/news/otago705461.html |archive-date=7 March 2021 }}
Waters became editor-in-chief of the Australasian Journal on Ageing in January 2021.{{Cite web|title=Australasian Journal on Ageing|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17416612|access-date=2021-02-16|website=Wiley Online Library|language=en}}{{Cite Q|Q104617291}} She is on the editorial board of The Journal of Frailty & Aging{{Cite web|title=Editorial board|url=https://www.jfrailtyaging.com/editorial-board.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-16|website=The Journal of Frailty & Aging|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103101222/http://www.jfrailtyaging.com/editorial-board.html |archive-date=3 January 2014 }} and an editor of Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research.{{Cite web|title=Editorial board|url=https://www.e-agmr.org/about/editorial.php|access-date=2021-02-16|website=Annals of Geriatric Medicine and Research}}
Selected works
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- {{Cite Q|Q91251743}}
- {{Cite Q|Q92562240|doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite Q|Q100314581}}
- {{Cite Q|Q100672972|doi-access=free}}
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Category:Academic staff of the University of Otago
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Category:New Zealand women academics