Dr. Janet L. Larson received her BSN from Wayne State University in 1975, MN from the University of Washington in 1978, and PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1985. She was a Fellow at the American Academy of Nursing in 1994 and a University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2003 to 2006. Now, she is a University of Michigan Shaké Ketefian Collegiate Professor of Nursing. She was granted a Service Award and Founders Award by the Respiratory Nursing Society in 1995 and 2000, respectively, and Distinguished Contribution to Research in the Midwest by the Midwest Nursing Research Society in 2002. Her research interests include exercise in older adults, primarily individuals with COPD and assisted living residents. Multiple research grants from the National Institutes of Health have funded her research.