Performance Nutrition Series: Creatine for Health and Performance

Richard Kreider serves as professor and director of the Exercise and Sport Nutrition Lab and director of the Human Clinical Core at Texas A&M University. At TAMU, he served as executive director of the Human Clinical Research Facility (2017 - 2022) and head of the Department of Health and Kinesiology and Thomas A. and Joan Read Endowed Chair for Disadvantaged Youth (2008 to 2017). He has over 35 years of administrative experience serving as co-director/director of the Wellness Institute and Research Center at Old Dominion University (1987 to 1993); assistant department chair at the University of Memphis (1994 to 2002); chair of the Department of Health, Human Performance, and Recreation and director of the Center for Exercise, Nutrition and Preventive Health at Baylor University (2002 to 2008); head of the Department of Health and Kinesiology (2008 to 2017), and executive director of the HCRF (2017 to 2022). 

Under his leadership, the Baylor University and Texas A&M University departments experienced extraordinary growth and development, improved teaching and research facilities, enhanced scholarly productivity, improved national rankings, and global impact. Dr. Kreider is a member of the graduate faculty in the Department of Health and Sport Management (formerly Health and Kinesiology) and the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences. He has conducted numerous studies on the role of exercise and nutrition on health, performance, disease and rehabilitation. He has published 12 books (including translations), over 290 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, 480 research abstracts, and 150 health and fitness-related articles. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 23,500 times in the literature (h-index 76, i10-index 191).