World Congress on Exercise is Medicine™: The World’s Prescription for Health

Unite with others across borders to build a healthier world and globalize Exercise is Medicine™

You are invited to take part in the historic inaugural World Congress on Exercise is Medicine™ (EIM). The World Congress will be a unique international forum that will address the science, practice, and policy aspects of the impact physical activity has on disease prevention and health promotion.

Why should you attend?

In addition to the valuable exchange of knowledge regarding physical activity and disease prevention, attendees of the World Congress will gain valuable resources and recommendations on how to implement various EIM initiatives in their respective countries and communities.

One Registration: Two Superb Meetings!

Registration for the World Congress allows you to attend all sessions at ACSM’s 57th Annual Meeting. Click here for Annual Meeting educational highlights related to Exercise is Medicine.

Register early and save!

Register by March 3, 2010 for the best discount. E-mail meetings@acsm.org or call 317-637-9200 ext. 141 for more information.

Become an official partner!

If your organization would like to play a lead role with the World Congress and EIM as a global initiative, we will recognize you as an official partner of the World Congress. E-mail eim@acsm.org for more details.

World Congress Sessions

• Assessing the Risk of Chronic Disease in Children
• Cardioprotective Benefits of Vigorous Physical Activity: The Risk Benefit Issue
• Exercise is Medicine — An International View
• Exercise is Medicine in the Workplace: Behavioral Change that Works
• Inactivity Physiology: Metabolic and Clinical Effects of Sitting Too Much
• International Exercise is Medicine Experiences: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
• Multi-Actor Strategies for the Promotion of Health-Enhanced Physical Activities for Children and Youth in Local Communities of the European Union
• Office-based Physical Activity Promotion: Current Evidence, Future Directions
• Physical Activity and Mental Health
• Physical Activity Education and Exercise Training for Cardiac Diseases Prevention and Wellness Promotion
• The Anti-Aging Effects of Exercise on the Cardiovascular System
• The Antiquity of Exercise and the Exercise Prescription for Health
• The Importance of Culturally Appropriate Physical Activity Programs in Indigenous Communities
  

ACSM Roundtable

Exercise is Medicine: Science, Practice, and Policy — The Global Landscape

Topics addressed by the expert panel will cover each of three distinct but interrelated facets of Exercise is Medicine:

• The scientific evidence… including both the physiological/public health and the behavioral aspects, analyzing US and international landscape.
• The practical… How to effectively translate the evidence and policy aspects into everyday practice by physicians, fitness professionals, and other health care providers abroad.
• The policy… legislative and non-legislative, necessary to translate the scientific evidence into public health outcomes.

This expert panel will meet over two days to examine the evidence and make recommendations to enhance the globalization of Exercise is Medicine. An open forum during the two-day session will allow all Annual Meeting and World Congress participants to voice their perspectives.

Mark your calendars and plan to attend this ground-breaking event!