Meet the Team: Aleah Newton
Aleah joined the OPT for Health team as a clinical research associate in February, 2026. Aleah Newton relocated from her hometown in Connecticut to Richmond, Virginia in 2024. She already had years of experience in the two areas which are now central to her role in the OPT for Health Lab: phlebotomy and clinical research […]
Resistance Training and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Women
While aerobic exercise is commonly endorsed as a way to prevent cardiovascular disease, resistance training is less-widely promoted. A recent article in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology underscores the benefits of including resistance training along with aerobics in exercise regimens for women in order to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). […]
Meet the Team: Vivian Hunter, CCRP
Vivian Hunter, senior clinical research coordinator, has been with the lab since June of 2025. After completing her bachelor’s degree in psychology at VCU in 2021, Vivian imagined that she would go on to attend medical school. She entered the healthcare field working as a medical scribe in an emergency department near her hometown of […]
