Kyle S. Levers

Dr. Levers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences and serves as the Director of the Exercise and Nutrition Science Laboratories and the Metabolism and Exercise Testing Service on GW’s main campus in Foggy Bottom.  Additionally, Dr. Levers was appointed by President Ellen Granberg in Fall 2025 to serve as GW’s Faculty Athletic Representative.  Dr. Levers joined the Milken Institute School of Public Health as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2018.  Prior to his tenure at GW, Dr. Levers was an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at Longwood University where he restructured and grew the Strength & Conditioning and Sports Nutrition curricula, upgraded the Exercise Science Laboratory facility, and established a collaborative relationship between the Kinesiology Program and the Athletics Department.  Prior to his time at Longwood, Dr. Levers served as a researcher in the Exercise and Sports Nutrition Laboratory at Texas A&M University collaborating with mentors Dr. Richard Kreider and the late Dr. Michael Greenwood on several large sports performance nutrition projects and women’s health initiatives while pursuing his doctorate in Exercise Physiology. During his doctoral tenure at Texas A&M, Dr. Levers volunteered his time as a Strength & Conditioning Coach and Research Collaborator with Texas A&M Athletics and co-founded a start-up wearable technology company to improve blood pressure monitoring accuracy during exercise.

Dr. Levers’ professional career prior to academia was grounded in athletic performance development at the Division I collegiate level and in the private sector.  After obtaining his doctoral degree, Dr. Levers founded a strength and conditioning facility in his home state of New Jersey where he served as the Director of Athletic Performance and Nutrition.  Dr. Levers is a certified strength and conditioning specialist with the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA CSCS), a certified level 1 weightlifting coach with USA Weightlifting (USAW-1), a certified practitioner of the functional movement (FMS-1) and fundamental capacity screens (FCS), and a certified functional range conditioning mobility specialist (FRCms).  Stemming from Dr. Levers’ background in athletic performance development and multi-sport collegiate athletic career, his research interests are broadly focused on the application of movement, circadian awareness, sleep, and nutrition-based interventions as methods to enhance health and human performance.  He has published several articles and co-authored two book chapters related to the influences of nutrition and supplementation on exercise performance and body composition.  He also has presented at several regional, national, and international events on topics ranging from health and physical activity, body composition, sports nutrition, youth sport specialization, wilderness expedition physiology, athletic development, and athletic performance evaluation.