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July 14,
2009
Welcome to the new Exercise is
Medicine™ (EIM) e-newsletter! Thanks for your
continued support. This regular update will
serve as your resource for highlights on the
latest news from EIM. However, the quarterly
newsletter will still be available for download
as a PDF on the EIM Web site. Click here to
download.
What's
New
- ACSM Presents
World Congress on Exercise is Medicine™
In
conjunction with the 2010 Annual Meeting in
Baltimore, the American College of Sports
Medicine is currently preparing the World
Congress on Exercise is Medicine™. This special
event will provide a global venue for
organizations to improve strategies, report on
progress, gain updates on the latest
research-to-practice discoveries, increase
capacity, receive recognition, and build
worldwide community support for
EIM. Click
here to view the EIM World
Congress promotional video.
- Exercise is Medicine™ on the
Fly
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"Exercise
is Medicine™ on the Fly,” originally formed in
2005, is presented in conjunction with the
American College of Sports Medicine Task Force
on Healthy Air Travel. The purpose of the Task
Force is to recognize and respond to the
stresses of modern commercial air travel through
promotion of related research, educational
initiatives, and practical application of
exercise science. Click here to
learn
more. |
- EIM to Become Regular Feature in
International Journal
Exercise is Medicine™
(EIM) continues to gain global exposure with a
new opportunity from the British Association of
Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM). EIM task force
members will provide commentary on the EIM
initiative and reinforce the importance of
physical activity to health in each bi-monthly
issue of the British Journal of Sports
Medicine (BJSM), BASEM’s official
peer review journal for health professionals and
researchers in sport and exercise medicine.
Two EIM task force
members were featured in the January 2009 issue
of BJSM. Steven N. Blair, P.E.D., FACSM, and
Robert E. Sallis, M.D., FACSM, wrote pieces on
research promoting the importance of physical
activity and integrating exercise prescription
to the health care system. To read the full
articles, click here and
here.
- EIM's Message Reaches Times
Square
| As a part of the closing
bell ceremony at the NASDAQ stock market on May
6, 2009, the American College of Sports Medicine
introduced Exercise
is Medicine™ (EIM) to New York City and the
world via the NASDAQ
MarketSite Tower, a seven-stories-tall
electronic display in Times Square. To watch the
full EIM promotional video, click here.
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- Task Force Member
Receives National Leadership
Award
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The
American College of Sports Medicine is pleased
to congratulate and recognize Exercise is
Medicine™ task force member Edward Phillips,
M.D., as a recipient of the President’s Council
on Physical Fitness and Sports Community
Leadership Award for 2009. This award is given
out annually to individuals who improve the
lives of individuals within his/her community by
providing or enhancing opportunities to engage
in sports, physical activities or
fitness-related programs.
Phillips
is currently the director of the Institute of
Lifestyle Medicine at Spaulding Rehabilitation
Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has
stayed active in advocating for exercise
prescription and behavior change by co-authoring
“ACSM’s Exercise is Medicine™, A Clinician's
Guide to Exercise Prescription,” available for
purchase here. |
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Medicine™
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