Assistant Professor
Queens College, CUNY
Bridget McFadden, PhD, CSCS*D is an assistant professor at Queens College, CUNY. She received both her MS and PhD from Rutgers University. She completed a poctoral researcher fellowship at the University of South Carolina Sport Science Laboratory. Her research focuses on the relationship between nutrition, training stress, and recovery and the implications for health and performance. The primary emphasis of her research in this area involves examining the effects of workload and stress on performance and the differential physiological responses in males and females. Her current research involves the use of nutritional, endocrine, and metabolic biomarkers to track female health. Furthermore, she is interested in the potential efficacy of nutritional supplementation as well as acute and chronic training for improving functional capabilities, cognition, and the systemic response to stress in adolescents, athletes, military, first responders, and special populations.