David Conroy, PhD, FACSM, FSBM

David E. Conroy, PhD, is professor and Bickner Chair of Applied Exercise Science at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology. He is also director of the Motivation Lab. His primary interest involves developing behavioral interventions that target motivational processes to promote health behaviors that enable people to live long, health filled and happy lives. The goal of these interventions is to make healthy lifestyles less effortful and more enjoyable.

Dr. Conroy has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and is a member of seven journal editorial boards. He recently served on the 2022 Science Board for the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, & Nutrition, and previously served as a consultant for the 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee. He is a Past President of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and currently serves as a member of the Lifestyle Change and Behavioral Health study section for the NIH Center for Scientific Review.

Dr. Conroy is the principal investigator for two ongoing just-in-time behavioral intervention research trials – one involving a precision text messaging intervention for insufficiently-active young adults (funded by NHLBI) and the other involving a digital tool for tracking and prompting fluid intake with patients who have had kidney stones (funded by NIDDK). He serves as co-principal investigator on a methods-focused project focused on physical activity tracking in older adults (funded by NSF). As a co-investigator, he collaborates on physical activity intervention trials with rural adults (funded by NCI) and older adult (funded by NIA). To learn more about these projects, point your browser to motivation.kines.umich.edu or follow him on Twitter (@conroylab).