Media Advisory: Johns Hopkins Medicine Hosts Exercise As Medicine Symposium

04/12/2018

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The Johns Hopkins Center for Dynamic Health is hosting a symposium on the science of exercise as medicine. This inaugural event will feature talks from leading experts from Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and other neighboring institutions. The symposium will discuss research about physical activity and exercise as well as clinical activities. 

WHAT: 
Exercise As Medicine Symposium

WHERE:
Chevy Chase Auditorium in the Sheikh Zayed Tower at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
1800 Orleans St., Baltimore, MD 21287

WHEN:
Friday, April 13, 2018
8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

TALKS & SPEAKERS:

Welcome Remarks
James Robert Ficke, M.D., Robert A. Robinson Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Surgery

Exercise: How We Got Here and Why This Conference?
Edward G. McFarland, M.D., Wayne H. Lewis Professor of Orthopaedics and Shoulder Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Does Exercise Intensity Affect Cognition?
Kerry J. Stewart, Ed.D., professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
and director of Clinical Research and Exercise Physiology

Physical Activity and Vision Loss – Bidirectional Causality
Pradeep Ramulu, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Exercise and Peripheral Artery Disease
Elizabeth Ratchford, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Vascular Medicine

Using Wearable Technology to Measure Physical Activity and Mobility
Jennifer A. Schrack, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Exercise in People with Diabetes
Rita Kalyani, M.D., M.H.S., associate professor of medicine in the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Running from Depression: Exercise As Treatment and Prophylactic
Adam Kaplin, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Exercise and Obesity
Lawrence J. Cheskin, M.D., associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and director of Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center

An Automated mHealth Intervention for Exercise Promotion in an Ambulatory Cardiology Setting
Seth Martin, M.D., M.H.S., assistant professor of medicine in the Department of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Exercise: Benefits, Definitions and Strategies for Primary Care
Sameer Dixit, M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and medical director of Johns Hopkins Orthopaedic Clinic at Green Spring Station

Future Directions
Richard Schaefer, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

To see the full agenda and the entire list of speakers, please click here.

If you are a member of the media and interested in attending the event, please contact Archana Nilaweera ([email protected]) for parking information or any other questions. Media personnel do not need to register for the event.