While sports medicine gets a lot of attention, exercise medicine is also an important topic that impacts millions of people. Now in its second year, the annual Exercise Medicine Conference brings together a wide range of individuals from all areas of healthcare to discuss the important topic of exercise. The conference programme includes experts from disciplines such as epigenetics, digital health and technology, as well as behaviour, policy and education. The foci are on how ‘we’ can get more people physically active, and exercise medicine’s best practices.
Aims:
- To educate individuals about exercise and its importance for health
- Equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge to help their patients be more physically active
- Introduce new research in rapidly evolving fields such as epigenetics
- Present information on key areas such as technology, digital health and behaviour and how they can impact exercise medicine
Date: June 20th and 21st 2014
Location: London, Royal Society of Medicine, Wimpole Street
Expert Speakers include:
- Professor Steven Blair – Energy (Steven Blair’s work was profiled in Mike Evan’s viral video “23 1/2 hrs” – now with almost 4 million views- and he also authored the highly accessed BJSM article: Physical inactivity: the biggest public health problem of the 21st century
- Dr Yoni Freedhoff – Rebranding exercise
- Dr William Bird – Physical inactivity, a worldwide problem
- Professor William Brown – Epigenetics and exercise
- Dr Jack Kreindler – Biosensors and big data
- Mr David Stalker – Turning the tide on physical inactivity
Further details available on event website: http://goo.gl/HgSPgO
Dr Mike Loosemore also talks about the conference on the BJSM podcast: HERE