General Internal Medicine

Oliver Kent Glass, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine
Assistant Professor in Pathology
Campus mail 3475 Erwin Rd., Durham, NC 27710
Phone (919) 660-6672
Email address oliver.glass@duke.edu

My research interests are understanding how and why exercise is effective in chronic disease. I am interested in the unique role of skeletal muscle as a key mediator of exercise effects. 

Education and Training

  • Ph.D., Duke University, 2015

Grants

Publications

Bechard, Elizabeth, John Evans, Eunji Cho, Yufen Lin, Arthi Kozhumam, Jill Jones, Sydney Grob, and Oliver Glass. “Feasibility, acceptability, and potential effectiveness of an online expressive writing intervention for COVID-19 resilience.” Complement Ther Clin Pract 45 (July 27, 2021): 101460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2021.101460.

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Glass, Oliver, Claudia Filozof, Mazen Noureddin, Mark Berner-Hansen, Elmer Schabel, Stephanie O. Omokaro, Jörn M. Schattenberg, et al. “Standardisation of diet and exercise in clinical trials of NAFLD-NASH: Recommendations from the Liver Forum.” J Hepatol 73, no. 3 (September 2020): 680–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2020.04.030.

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Perlman, Adam, Susan Gould Fogerite, Oliver Glass, Elizabeth Bechard, Ather Ali, Valentine Y. Njike, Carl Pieper, et al. “Efficacy and Safety of Massage for Osteoarthritis of the Knee: a Randomized Clinical Trial.” J Gen Intern Med 34, no. 3 (March 2019): 379–86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-018-4763-5.

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Glass, Oliver, Mark Dreusicke, John Evans, Elizabeth Bechard, and Ruth Q. Wolever. “Expressive writing to improve resilience to trauma: A clinical feasibility trial.” Complement Ther Clin Pract 34 (February 2019): 240–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctcp.2018.12.005.

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30712734
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Glass, Oliver, Ricardo Henao, Keyur Patel, Cynthia D. Guy, Hans J. Gruss, Wing-Kin Syn, Cynthia A. Moylan, et al. “Serum Interleukin-8, Osteopontin, and Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein 1 Are Associated With Hepatic Fibrosis in Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.” Hepatol Commun 2, no. 11 (November 2018): 1344–55. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep4.1237.

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Glass, O. K., A. Radia, W. E. Kraus, and M. F. Abdelmalek. “Exercise training as treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.” Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology 2, no. 4 (December 1, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3390/jfmk2040035.

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Glass, Oliver K., Michelle Bowie, Julie Fuller, David Darr, Jerry Usary, Keara Boss, Kingshuk Roy Choudhury, et al. “Differential response to exercise in claudin-low breast cancer.” Oncotarget 8, no. 60 (November 24, 2017): 100989–4. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.21054.

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Glass, Oliver K., Sundhar Ramalingam, and Michael R. Harrison. “Resistance exercise training in patients with genitourinary cancers to mitigate treatment-related skeletal muscle loss.” Clin Adv Hematol Oncol 14, no. 6 (June 2016): 436–46.

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27379813
Scholars@Duke

Glass, O. K., B. A. Inman, G. Broadwater, K. S. Courneya, J. R. Mackey, S. Goruk, E. R. Nelson, et al. “Effect of aerobic training on the host systemic milieu in patients with solid tumours: an exploratory correlative study.” Br J Cancer 112, no. 5 (March 3, 2015): 825–31. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2014.662.

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Glass, Oliver, Brant A. Inman, Kerry S. Courneya, John R. Mackey, Erik Nelson, Zachary Hartman, and Lee W. Jones. “Abstract 1376: Exercise alters breast cancer phenotype through distinct reductions in host-derived proinflammatory growth factor ligands.” In Clinical Research. American Association for Cancer Research, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2013-1376.

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