We are proud to spotlight the following lectures at the ACSM Annual Meeting and World Congress on Exercise is Medicine^TM

Click here to see the entire program, read abstracts and plan your schedule.

(Lectures related to the World Congress on Exercise is Medicine are highlighted in red bold italic):

Special Invited Guest
U.S. Surgeon General
Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin

Dr. Benjamin will speak on Wednesday, June 2 and
will also lead an on-site community health walk.

   World Congress on Exercise is Medicine^TM

Registration Information

Call for Abstracts

Schedule

Housing and Travel

Baltimore and Washington, DC

International Attendees

Awards Information

Exhibitor List

Supporter/Exhibit Information

2009 Annual Meeting Recap

Annual Meeting Home

 The Joseph B. Wolffe
Memorial Lecture

Physical Activity, Health, Health Care
Reform and Lifestyle Reform Revisited

Jeffrey P. Koplan
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

The D.B. Dill
Historical Lecture

The Self-Correcting Nature of Science

Brian J. Whipp, FACSM
Human Bio-Energetics Research Centre
Crickhowell, United Kingdom

President's Lectures

VO₂max and Exercise
Tolerance

Véronique Billat, FACSM
Centre De Medicine Du Sport
Paris, France

Novel Mind-Body Nutrition
for Performance and Health

J. Mark Davis, FACSM
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Managing Concussions in Youth Sports: Education
Versus Legislation —
Washington State Passes New Law

Stanley Herring, FACSM
University of Washington
Medical Center
Seattle, WA

Named Lectures

GISOLFI TUTORIAL LECTURE

Sex Differences in Human
Thermoregulation:
Implications for Athletes,
Researchers and Clinicians

Nina Stachenfeld, FACSM
John B Pierce Laboratory
New Haven, CT

POLLOCK TUTORIAL LECTURE

Resistance Training for Health and Rehabilitation:
A Physiological Perspective

James E. Graves, FACSM
University of Utah,
College of Health
Salt Lake City, Utah

PAFFENBARGER TUTORIAL LECTURE

Physical Activity -
Why it’s so Difficult to
Shift the Population Needle?

Adrian Bauman
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia

JOHN R. SUTTON CLINICAL LECTURE

Marathon Medicine:
Reducing Adverse
Outcomes

William O. Roberts, FACSM
UMN Phalen Village Clinic
Saint Paul, MN

World Congress on Exercise is Medicine
Keynote Speaker

Tuesday, June 1
1:45 - 2:45 pm

Exercise - Why Does it Work?                      

Bengt Saltin, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark