Physical Activity: the Magic "Pill" for Chronic Disease Prevention?
Chair: J. Carson Smith, PhD, Department of Kinesiology, UMD SPH with panelists James M. Hagberg, Ph.D., Department of Kinesiology, UMD SPH; Richard F. Macko, MD, VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center of Excellence in Exercise and Robotics; Professor of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, UMB SOM; and Alice S. Ryan, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, UMD SOM and VA Research Career Scientist.
Panelists discuss their progress across both campuses in developing large--scale community based research proposals on physical activity, developing relationships with clinical research participants at a retirement community, the integration of research in physical activity with that in epidemiology and the critical role of graduate and undergraduate students in advancing research in the effects of physical activity in public health.
