BIDDEFORD- The University of New England will host the “Wicked Good Sports Medicine Symposium” on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, 1-5 p.m. on the Biddeford Campus.
The event, coordinated by Program Director Lara Carlson, Ph.D., FACSM, CSCS, a UNE assistant professor in the Applied Exercise Science Program, will feature internationally renowned speakers in the field of sports medicine.
The event is free and open to the public. Each speaker will present for approximately 25 minutes, and the symposium will conclude with a panel discussion, during which the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenters.
Carlson feels that “the mission of sports medicine professionals is to disseminate information to the public.” She believes that the upcoming symposium will help accomplish this goal by providing “an opportunity for each of the six remarkable sports medicine scientists to have a dialogue with other scientists, practitioners and the public.”
Presenting at the “Wicked Good Sports Symposium” will be: Daniel Lieberman, Ph.D., Harvard University: “Why Exercise Really Is Medicine (An Evolutionary Explanation)”; Samuel Headley, Ph.D., RCEP, CSCS, FACSM, Springfield College: “Exercise and Chronic Kidney Disease”; Stella Lucia Volpe, Ph.D., RD, LDN, FACSM, Drexel University: “Prevention of Weight Gain in a Large Portion Society”; J. Timothy Lightfoot, Ph.D., RCEP, CES, FACSM, Texas A&M: “Can You be Born a Couch Potato? The Genetics that Control your Physical Activity”; Samuel N. Cheuvront, Ph.D., RD, FACSM, United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine: “Answers to 10 Common Questions about Hydration”; and David Epstein, M.A., M.S., Sports Illustrated: “Missing the Phenotypes for the Genotypes.”
For more information, contact Lara Carlson at lcarlson@une.edu or visit www.une.edu/news/2012/wickedgoodsportsmedicine.cfm
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