About Toby Tate, Ph.D.

Dean, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Dr. Charlotte “Toby” Tate is dean of the College of Applied Health Sciences and Professor of Kinesiology and Biological Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a post she has held since 1999. She also served as interim vice chancellor of academic affairs and provost.

Before moving to Chicago, she held faculty positions at Baylor College of Medicine and the College of Pharmacy at the University of Houston, where she was also chair of the basic science department and the university’s vice provost for academic and faculty affairs.

Tate’s research career focused on the biochemical and cellular mechanisms underlying the response of the heart and skeletal muscle to pathological perturbations and to exercise in advanced age. The National Institutes of Health and other agencies supported her research studies.

Among her service to the biomedical academic community, she was associate editor for two physiology journals, is a section editor for two publications dealing with lifestyle medicine and has served on many research review panels at the NIH and other governmental agencies.

Tate is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. She served as one of the first presidents of the Texas Chapter of ACSM. She was president of ACSM and received the organization’s second-highest award for her contributions to the exercise sciences.

Among her many honors, she received the ACSM Texas Chapter’s first Honor Award and the Distinguished Alumna award from Texas Woman’s University and Texas State University. Tate now focuses her attention on the academic institutional changes required for cross- and multidisciplinary research that spans and connects the humanities to the gene in health, disability and disease across the mammalian life course.

Tate holds a Bachelor of Science from Texas Woman’s University, a Master of Arts from Texas State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.