Stacy D. Hunter MSc, PhD

Dr. Stacy D. Hunter, MSc, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Texas State University. She received her PhD in clinical exercise physiology from the University of Texas at Austin where she studied the effects of yoga on vascular function in the Cardiovascular Aging Research Laboratory. Dr. Hunter has now published several pioneering studies on the impact of yoga on vascular endothelial function, arterial stiffness, and glucose tolerance and presented her findings at teacher training, yoga studios, and symposia in the U.S. and abroad. She is an assistant professor and director of the Cardiovascular Physiology Lab in the Department of Health and Human Performance where she continues her investigation into the acute and chronic effects of yoga on vascular health and other coronary heart disease risk factors in healthy and clinical subpopulations.