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Past ACSM Specialty Conferences
ACSM has
organized six specialty conferences with various organizations since
1995. See the information below for details on each
conference.
On September 27-30, 2006, the
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) hosted the
"Integrative Physiology of Exercise: Discovery and Application
of Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, and Metabolic Science" meeting at
the Indiana Convention Center and Westin Hotel in Indianapolis. Because
of the rapid increase in scientific knowledge related to exercise
physiology, ACSM sought to emphasize recent advancements in our
understanding of exercise metabolism and in the regulation of both
cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology in a basic science specialty
conference. The wide range of symposia topics presented at this meeting
featured both senior and emerging scientists and provided an exciting
environment for lively scientific exchanges among attendees.
The
conference featured 18 symposia involving 70 speakers on aspects of
metabolic, cardiovascular, and pulmonary physiology. Core events
featured 180 poster communications, and total attendance was 440 over
the course of three days. Each day's events culminated with an invited
lecture by an eminent worker in each of the three areas represented:
Jerome Dempsey, Ph.D., FACSM, University of Wisconsin, "Respiratory
Influences on O2 Transport, Muscle Blood
Flow, Fatigue, and Exercise Performance"; David E. Kelley, M.D.,
University of Pittsburgh, "Effects of Exercise to Improve Insulin
Resistance and Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Dysfunction"; and Peter
Wagner, Ph.D., University of California San Diego, "Skeletal Muscle
Angiogenesis Responses to Exercise: The Role of VEGF." The American
Physiological Society (APS) and Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology
(CSEP) were supporting organizations.
Abstracts of free communications are published in Medicine & Science in Sports &
Exercise® online (www.acsm-msse.org,
November 2006). Symposium proceedings will be published in Medicine & Science in Sports &
Exercise® as they become available.
In
October of 2005, the Walking for Health Specialty
Conference was held at the University of Illinois in
Champaign-Urbana, in conjunction with the American College of Sports
Medicine. This Conference focused on measurement issues and challenges
with walking. Over 100 abstracts were presented and there were
over 280 attendees, including participants from 17 countries. The
Conference was chaired by Weimo Zhu, PhD, FACSM. Please check back
for a Summary Statement and abstracts, as they will be published in the
near future.
In October 16-18, 2003 - the
Measurement Issues and Challenges in Aging Research The
10th Measurement and Evaluation Symposium, the
University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
Established in 1949, the Measurement and Evaluation (M&E) Council is
one of 12 councils/societies in the American Association for Active
Lifestyles and Fitness (AAALF), which is one of six associations in
AAHPERD. The M&E Council holds its symposium every three or
four years, with a focus on measurement and evaluation, statistical, and
research design issues in the field of Kinesiology. Targeting
measurement specialists, researchers who are interested in measurements
and statistics and more recently broadened to include researchers in the
following six sub-disciplines: motor learning, sport/exercise
psychology, biomechanics, movement studies in disability, and exercise
physiology. These experts are brought together to address measurement
issues and challenges in these disciplines.
October
20-22, 2000 - Physical
Activity Programming for the Older Adult
There were 175 participants in attendance at the conference in
Indianapolis, Indiana. The conference was chaired by Wojtek
Chodzko Zajko, Ph.D. and Loretta DiPietro, Ph.D. Steven N. Blair,
P.E.D., past-president of ACSM, gave the keynote address, followed by
fourteen illustrious presentations given by esteemed faculty and
consultants. A Welcome Reception and two poster sessions complemented
the event. This conference began the start of the Active Aging
Partnership.
October 19-21, 1997 - the
Physical Activity Interventions Conference was held in Dallas, Texas.
This Specialty Conference was jointly sponsored by ACSM and the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research and was
offered in collaboration with the NCPPA. The first in the Cooper
Conference Series, the papers from this meeting were published in the
American Journal of Preventive
Medicine 1998;15(4).
September 28-30, 1995 - Oxidative Metabolism and Blood
Flow in Skeletal Muscle: Physiological, Biohpysical, Biochemichal, and
Molecular Aspects This conference
was also held in Indianapolis, Indiana and was chaired by Peter Wagner,
M.D., Paul Johnson, Ph.D., and David Wilson, Ph.D.. The meeting
was an interactive forum of focused presentations on the current
understanding of the field, followed by in depth debate and discussion
by the audience and faculty. This inaugural event funded by AMGEN proved
to be a scientifically rewarding experience for the over 100 in
attendance at this interdisciplinary conference.
Topic
suggestions from ACSM members or from organizations that might fund
ACSM Roundtables or Specialty Conferences should be submitted to the
Research Administration Office, in the form of a letter of intent, at
least eighteen months in advance of the proposed timeline to enhance the
opportunities for outside funding. E-mail any questions to jsenior@acsm.org.
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