Dr. Angelopoulos serves as Research Director of Rippe Lifestyle Institute and Rippe Health Assessment. He is considered an international leader in exercise physiology, weight management, metabolism and lifestyle medicine research. Under his leadership, RLI research staff typically presents between 20 and 25 papers at international medical conferences every year. As a former Scholar of Greece’s National Secretary of Education, he pursued advanced graduate training in the United States. He attended the University of Pittsburgh from 1983-1991 for post graduate studies. He received his M.S in Exercise Physiology in 1986, his M.P.H. in Epidemiology in 1990 and his Ph.D in Exercise Physiology in 1991. From 1991-1994 Dr. Angelopoulos was a post-doctoral fellow in Metabolism at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Presently, Dr. Angelopoulos is a tenured Professor and Director of the Exercise Physiology Laboratory at the University of Central Florida. He and his wife Kristi live in Orlando.