Nicolaas P. Pronk, Ph.D. is Vice President of Health & Disease Management and Executive Director of the Health Behavior Group at HealthPartners. The Health Behavior Group is a HealthPartners business unit that provides health promotion, disease prevention and disease self-management products and services to the international wellness market. In his role as Senior Research Investigator at the HealthPartners Research Foundation, he conducts studies in the areas of behavior change, population health improvement and the impact of systems-level change on health-related outcomes. Dr. Pronk has published extensively in the areas of physical activity and behavior change. Dr. Pronk received his doctoral degree in Exercise Physiology from Texas A&M University and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in behavioral medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.
