• Latin America Less than 10% • Russia/Eastern Europe 75%-99%
Languages:
• Lithuanian (limited working proficiency) • Russian (professional proficiency) • Spanish (limited working proficiency)
Specialization:
Biocultural perspective on health and disease; Health consequences of culture change; diet, nutrition and risk for cardiovascular disease; physical activity, energy expenditure and human adaptability
Relevant Experience:
• Country of Specialty: Russia • • NSF 01-113 Leonard (PI) 10/15/01-- 10/15/03 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant Social and biological determinants of cardiovascular risk among urban and rural Yakut: the impact of socioeconomic upheaval
Distinctions:
• -ongoing • Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern University Research & Travel Award, 2001
• Buehler Center on Aging, Northwestern University Summer Training Program, 1999
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
5
Relevant Courses Taught:
• • Peoples of Siberia • Case Studies in Environmental Change
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Childhood intestinal health, immune function and the gutmicrobiome in Galapagos, Ecuador. KM Houck1,ALThompson1,2, MV Sorensen1. American Journal of Human Biology 28: 281.
• 2016 Impact of market integration on under- and overnutrition in the Ecuadorean Amazon. MV Sorensen1, F Lu2, K Houck1. American Journal of Human Biology 28: 297
• 2015 Flora Lu, Nestor Silva, Krysta Villeda, and Mark Sorensen. Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Risks and Tenables among Native Amazonians in Northeastern Ecuador. Human Organization 73: 375-388.
• 2014 Houck, K, Sorensen, MV, Lu, F, Alban, D, Alvarez, K, Hidobro, D, Doljanin C, Ona A.
• 2014 KM Houck, AL Thompson, MV Sorensen. Dual burden impact of obesity status and E. coli exposure on childhood CRP levels in the Galapagos, Ecuador. . American Journal of Human Biology 26: 268
• 2014 Flora Lu and Mark Sorensen (eds.). Integración al Mercado y Salud Indígena en el Nororiente Ecuatoriano. Quito, Ecuador: Abya Yala Press. 250 pp.
• 2014 The Effects of Market Integration on Childhood Growth and Nutritional Status: the Dual Burden of Under- and Over-Nutrition in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. American Journal of Human Biology 25: 524-533.
• 2010 Barsukov AP, Klimova TM, Sorensen MV, Scherbuk IA, Krivoshapkin BG. Characteristics of plasma adiponectin among indigenous populations of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Vestnik Novosibirkogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seria Biologia, Klinicheskaya Meditsina. 8: 74-78. [in Russian]
• 2010 Doughty, C., Lu, F, Sorensen MCrude, Cash and Culture Change: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador. Consilience 4: 18-32.
• 2009 Barsukov, AP, Antonov, AR, Sorensen, MV. Anthropometric characteristics of the indigenous population of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Vestnik Novosibirkogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seria Biologia, Klinicheskaya Meditsina. 7: 54-62. [in Russian]
• 2009 Leonard, WR, Sorensen, MV, Mosher, MJ, Spitsyn, VA, Comuzzie, AG. Reduced fat oxidation and obesity risks among the Buryat of Southern Siberia. American Journal of Human Biology 21: 664-70.
• 2007 2007 Snodgrass, JJ, Sorensen, MV, Tarskaia, LA, Leonard, WR. Adaptive dimensions of health research among indigenous Siberians. American Journal of Human
Biology 19: 165-180.
• 2006 2006 Sorensen, MV, Leonard, WR, Tarskaya, LA, Ivanov, KI, Snodgrass, JJ, Krivoshapkin, VG, Rifai, N. High sensitivity c-reactive protein, adiposity and blood pressure in the Yakut of Siberia. American Journal of Human Biology 18:766-775.
• 2005 2005 Leonard, WR, Snodgrass, JJ, Sorensen MV. Metabolic adaptation in indigenous Siberian populations. Annual Review of Anthropology 34: 451-471.
• 2005 2005 Sorensen, MV, Leonard, WR, Snodgrass, JJ, Tarskaya, LA, Spitsyn, VA, LA, Ivanov, KI, Krivoshapkin, VG. Health consequences of post socialist transition: dietary and lifestyle determinants of plasma lipids in Yakutia. American Journal of Human Biology 17: 576-592
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