Dr. Scott Collier

Dr. Scott Collier has taught in Appalachian State University’s Department of Health and Exercise Science since 2009. He conducts research on the benefits of exercise on cardiovascular health, with teaching specialties in clinical cardiovascular physiology and vascular biology. Collier’s research primarily focuses on how the vessels remodel with diseases such as hypertension, and how exercise can help prevent or treat the disease in humans. Recently, he has  completed sleep studies to see how behaviors change with stress or pain and how thermal therapy or exercise may help an individual attain better sleep, which in turn will help several clinical conditions.

The American Heart Association has cited two of Collier’s studies in their position stand on exercise as an alternative therapy for hypertension. This decreases the dependence on pharmaceuticals and all the side effects they elicit. Collier has over 20 students that participate as research technicians in the Vascular Biology and Autonomic Research Laboratory, and since he has been at Appalachian, over 50 of those students have their names on published manuscripts.

Areas of expertise

• Exercise and cardiovascular health
• Vascular biology
• Sleep studies
• Fitness trackers
• Down Syndrome
• Public school health education
• Back pain