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Preview Program
American College of Sports Medicine
63rd Annual Meeting
7th World Congress on Exercise is Medicine® and
World Congress on The Basic Science of Energy Balance
Dear Friends and Colleagues: Schedule at-a-Glance
We are very excited about the Tuesday, May 31
American College of Sports • Registration Opens
Medicine’s upcoming 63rd Annual • Preconference Sessions
Meeting, 7th World Congress on • Morris/Paffenbarger Exercise is Medicine®
Exercise is Medicine® and World Keynote Lecture
• World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®
Congress on The Basic Science of
• All Attendee Party
Energy Balance. These conferences
will be held in Boston, Massachusetts from May Wednesday, June 1
31-June 4, 2016 and, on behalf of the entire Program • Joseph B. Wolffe Memorial Lecture
Committee, I want to personally invite you to join us. • Scientific /Clinical Sessions
• World Congress on The Basic Science of
The ACSM Annual Meeting and World Congresses Energy Balance
have become recognized for delivering outstanding • World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®
programming and exceptional value year after year. • Exhibit Hall Open
More than 6,000 professionals from around the globe • President’s Cup Poster Competition
• Student Colloquium
attend these conferences, and for good reasons. As
• Interest Group Meetings
the most comprehensive sports medicine and exercise
• Student Bowl
science conference in the world, attendees from more
than 70 disciplines can come together and share Thursday, June 2
new clinical techniques, scientific advancements and • Josephine L. Rathbone Memorial Breakfast
cutting-edge research in sports medicine, exercise honoring ACSM’s Women
• President’s Lectures
science, physical activity and public health.
• Scientific/Clinical Sessions
The 2016 ACSM Annual Meeting in Boston will be • World Congress on The Basic Science of
no different. Program submissions are outstanding and Energy Balance
reflect the broad categorical interests of our members • World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®
• Exhibit Hall Open
such as clinical medicine, biomechanics and neural
• Interest Group Meetings
control of movement, epidemiology and biostatistics,
• Basic Science Reception
metabolism, nutrition and more.
• Clinician’s Reception with Poster
Presentations
The meetings also include wonderful networking and
• Celebrating Diversity Reception (invitation
social opportunities where you can reconnect with
only)
peers and rub shoulders with global leaders in sports
• Regional Chapter Socials
medicine and exercise science. If you can only choose
• International Reception (invitation only)
one conference to attend, this should be the one.
Friday, June 3
Looking forward to seeing you there! • 16th Annual Gisolfi 5K Fun Run and Walk
• D.B. Dill Historical Lecture
Sincerely,
• Scientific/Clinical Sessions
• Exhibit Hall Open
• Student Meet the Expert Session
• New Fellow Reception (invitation only)
• Cocktail Reception and Awards Banquet
Saturday, June 4
Elizabeth A. Joy, M.D., M.P.H., FACSM • President’s Lectures
2016 Program Committee Chair • Scientific/Clinical Sessions
ACSM President-elect
ACSM Thanks Our 2016 Annual Meeting Sponsors*
The American College of Sports Medicine thanks the following organizations that have provided
general sponsorships for the overall Annual Meeting.
PREMIER
PRESENTING
SUSTAINING
* Please note that the above organizations are not ACCME-defined commercial interests.
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Bridging Research and Practice
for Healthy, Active Lives
ACSM’s Annual Meeting is THE one conference that bridges research and clinical practice, giving
you information that can be used immediately.
The program emphasizes exceptionally strong scientific and clinical content across the breadth of
interests among ACSM membership.
Objectives Clinically Specific Objectives:
At the conclusion of the Annual Meeting, 6. D evelop a treatment plan using current
participants should be able to: recommendations to prescribe effective
exercise and physical activity plans to
1. E valuate the biological, biomechanical,
pediatric and adolescent patients in order to
psychological and behavioral changes
enhance health and prevent disease.
accompanying exercise in both normal and
7. E valuate appropriate treatment strategies
pathological states.
for dancers with common injuries in order
2. A nalyze state-of-the art and innovative
to prevent further injury and disability.
basic science, applied science and clinical
8. D evelop a treatment plan for common
medicine in the areas of exercise, fitness,
sports related fractures and dislocations in
health and physical performance.
order to enhance recovery and function.
3. C ompare new approaches and perspectives
9. E valuate appropriate diagnostic and
concerning exercise science and sports
treatment strategies for athletes from
medicine through interactive discussions
special populations with concussions
with scientists and clinicians in related
in order to provide safe return to play
fields.
recommendations.
4. R ecognize the importance of basic
10. E valuate controversies in implementation
science research as it relates to diseases
of cardiac screening programs in order
and conditions that exist due to physical
to counsel communities regarding best
inactivity.
practices.
5. A ssess how physical activity research and
11. P resent strategies, processes and tools that
practice can contribute to public health.
clinicians can implement for assessing and
prescribing exercise in clinical practice.
Target Audience
ACSM members and professionals interested in the field of sports medicine and exercise science.
Earn Continuing Education Credits/Continuing Medical Education Credits
• Accreditation: The American College of Sports Medicine is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing
medical education for physicians.
• AMA/PRA Credits: The American College of Sports Medicine designates this
live activity for a maximum of 30.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians
should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
• ACSM CECs: The American College of Sports Medicine’s Professional Education Committee
certifies that this continuing education offering meets the criteria for a maximum of 30.25 hours
of ACSM continuing education credit.
• NATA – CEUs: ACSM is recognized by the Board of Certification, Inc. to
offer continuing education for Certified Athletic Trainers. 30.25 CEUs awarded.
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Educational Highlights
The Joseph B. Wolffe Memorial Lecture The D.B. Dill Historical Lecture
Raising Today’s Children: Can We Launch an HròdlkoV to Joy: Musings of a
Active, Fit and Healthy Generation? Sports Physician’s Perspective of the
Russell R. Pate, Ph.D., FACSM History of His Specialty
University of South Carolina Robert J. Johnson, M.D., FACSM
Columbia, South Carolina University of Minnesota
Wednesday, June 1, 8:00-9:15 a.m. Minneapolis, Minnesota
Friday, June 3, 8:00-9:15 a.m.
President’s Lectures
Preventing Sudden Death in Sport and Going for the Gold: Medical and Scientific
Physical Activity: The Struggles (and Conundrums in Paralympic Sport
Successes) to Implement Evidence into Cheri Blauwet, M.D.
Clinical Practice Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital/Brigham and
Douglas Casa, Ph.D., FACSM Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
University of Connecticut Boston, Massachusetts
Storrs, Connecticut Thursday, June 2, 10:30-11:20 a.m.
Thursday, June 2, 10:30-11:20 a.m.
Doping’s Nemesis
Arne Ljungqvist, M.D., Ph.D. Health-Promoting Effects of a Low-
International Olympic Committee Carbohydrate Lifestyle and its Potential to
Stockholm, Sweden Augment Human Performance and Resiliency
Saturday, June 4, 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m. Jeff Volek, Ph.D., R.D.
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Saturday, June 4, 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
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Named Lectures
John R. Sutton Elsworth R. Buskirk Priscilla M. Clarkson
Clinical Lecture Tutorial Lecture Tutorial Lecture
Are There Clinical Cardiac Tibetan and Andean Patterns Optimizing Muscular
Complications from too of Adaptation to High- Adaptations through
Much Exercise? Altitude Hypoxia Nutrition: Do as I Say,
Paul D. Thompson, M.D., FACSM Cynthia M. Beall, Ph.D. Not as I Do
Hartford Hospital Case Western Reserve University Eric Rawson, Ph.D., FACSM
Hartford, Connecticut Cleveland, Ohio Bloomsburg University
Friday, June 3, 1:00-1:50 p.m. Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Sponsored by
World Congress on Exercise is Medicine®
Exercise is Medicine®, a global health initiative Morris/Paffenbarger Exercise is
managed by ACSM, strives to make physical activity Medicine® Keynote Lecture
an integral part of health care around the globe.
Now in more than 40 countries, the EIM initiative
is focused on the integration of clinical health care
provider services with community-based physical
activity programs. Sessions will provide practical
information on how to expand your local network. See
a list of sessions on pages 7-8.
The Economic Costs of
Physical Inactivity
Michael Pratt, M.D., M.P.H., FACSM
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
World Congress on
The Basic Science of Energy Balance
ACSM’s 2016 Annual Meeting includes new basic The World Congress on The Basic
science world congress programming! Science of Energy Balance is chaired
by John M. Jakicic, Ph.D., FACSM,
This year’s ACSM World Congress will focus on a
University of Pittsburgh.
comprehensive understanding of the biological and
physiological mechanisms of energy balance. This
comprehensive meeting with the world’s leading
experts will have a particular emphasis on factors that
may regulate energy intake and energy expenditure,
and how this may relate to chronic diseases.
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Basic Science, Applied Science, Clinical and
Integrative Sessions by Category
Athlete Care and Clinical Medicine • Movement on 4 mm: The Art and Science of
Figure Skating
Highlighted Symposium: Neurocognitive Aspects
• Myofascial Pain Disorders in Sports Medicine
of Sports Injury Risk, Prevention, and Rehabilitation
• National Athletic Trainers’ Association
Kevin R. Vincent, FACSM, Daniel C. Herman, Charles
(Buz) Swanik, Gary B. Wilkerson, Joseph Clark Exchange Lecture
• Novel Approaches to Chronic Exertional Leg
• ACSM/AMSSM: CAQ Review Session (Part Pain – From Training Room to Battlefield
1) • Office-Based Management of Adult Fractures
• ACSM/AMSSM: CAQ Review Session (Part for the Primary Care Sports Physician
2) • Pearls on Pain Generators in Sports Medicine
• Advances in the Evaluation and Management • Pediatric Knee Injury Mechanism,
of Tendinopathies in Athletes Comorbidity, Intervention, and Management
• American Academy of Pediatrics Exchange • Physical Exam of the Cervical Spine and
Lecture Lumbar Spine
• American Medical Society for Sports • Post-concussive Headache: What a Pain in
Medicine Exchange Lecture the Neck!
• American Orthopaedic Society for Sports • Pre-participation Screening in Olympic and
Medicine Exchange Lecture – Anterior Paralympic Athletes: Why, How, and How
Cruciate Ligament Injury in Young Athletes Much
Current Concepts: Diagnosis, Treatment, • Protecting the Heart of the American Athlete:
Prevention State by State (or One State at a Time)
• Approach to Skin Infections in Athletes • Reviving the Sick Sesamoid
• Approach to the Injured Dancer: A Hands-on • Sexual Harassment in Sports
Workshop • Shortness of Breath in the Athlete
• Basics of Reading MRIs of the Lumbar Spine • Standing at the Cross Roads: Implementing
• Caring for Largest Amateur Sports Preparticipation Cardiovascular Screening
Organization in the World: Special Olympics • Sun Safety in Youth Sports: It’s About More
• Challenges Associated With Delivering than Just a Little Sunscreen!
Concussion Education Programs • Symposium for the Treatment of Endurance
• Challenging Hip and Pelvis Cases Athletes
• Challenging Return to Play Cases: Heat • Taking the ‘Pulse’ of Kids’ Exercise Patterns:
Stroke, Rhabdomyolysis and Sickle Cell Trait Guidance for Implementing a Physical
• Chiro, Ortho, PMR: Perspectives in Lower Activity Vital Sign for Pediatric Populations
Extremity Exam • Tau Protein Debate
• Concussion Management in Diverse • Team Tactics in Sports Medicine to Optimize
Populations Athlete Performance
• Concussion Research: Understanding the • The Adolescent Throwing Elbow: Prevention
Gaps so we Can Move Forward of Injury and New Areas of Research
• Dry Needling: A Technique to Release • The Healthy Dancer: Maintaining Health and
Myofascial Pain in Athletes Performance at all Ages
• Electrodiagnostics for the Sports Medicine • The Hypermobile Athlete – When Do We
Physician Worry?
• Endurance Race Event Coverage: • The Return of Olympic Rugby
International Institute of Race Medicine • The Youth Sports Machine: Destructive
• Examination of the Foot and Ankle Juggernaut or Vehicle for Success (Athletic,
• Examination of the Knee Academic, Career)?
• Examination of the Shoulder • TPCC – Psychological Issues in Athletes and
• Examination of the SI Joint the Team Physician
• Exercise Associated Muscle Cramping • Transgender Athletes: Can There be a Level
(EAMC) – Risk, Causes, Diagnosis and Playing Field?
Management • Ultrasound of the Hip
• Got your Back: Hands on Application of • Ultrasound of the Lower Extremity
Spine Hinge Theory • Update on Urinary Incontinence in the
• Let Her Play! Sports Medicine Updates for Female Athlete
the Female Olympic and Paralympic Athlete • Upper Extremity Examarama
• Lower Extremity Examarama • US vs. MRI: Imaging Challenges in the
• Lumbosacral Radiculopathy in the Athlete Upper Extremity
• Management of Acute Joint Dislocations and
Subluxations in Sports Medicine
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Biomechanics and Neural Control of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Movement Highlighted Symposium: Toward Exercise as
Personalized Medicine
Highlighted Symposium: Use of Innovative
Technologies and Novel Approaches for the Kevin Patrick, Patty Freedson, FACSM
Detection, Prevention and Management of Sport
• A Hands on with Sports Injury Research
Concussion
Methods
Irene S. Davis, FACSM, Kevin Guskiewicz, FACSM,
• Breast Tissue: A Novel Biomarker for Breast
William Meehan, Stefan Duma, Nicholas Murray
Cancer Prevention and Survivorship Research
• An Evidence Based Approach to Determining • CDC/ACSM Roundtable on Physical
Pointe (Toe) Shoe Readiness for Dancers Activity Surveillance: A Strategic Roadmap
• Insights on Sports Injury and Prevention from • Individual Response to Regular Exercise:
Musculoskeletal Simulation Extent, Implications and Study Designs
• Joint Loading In and Outside the Gait Lab as • Should Physical Activity Guidelines be the
a Risk Factor for Knee Osteoarthritis Same for Boys and Girls?
• Minimal Footwear Running: What does the
Exercise is Medicine®
Evidence Tell Us?
• New Frontiers in Musculoskeletal Research: Highlighted Symposium: Physical Activity and
Neurophysiological Testing in Sports Medicine Cancer in Children
John P. Kirwan, FACSM, Nora L. Nock, Joachim Boos,
Cardiovascular, Renal and Adam J. Esbenshade, Jeannie Huang
Respiratory Physiology
• American College of Cardiology Session
Highlighted Symposium: Respiratory Limitations to • ACSM/Society of Behavioral Medicine Co-
Exercise: Too Young, Too Old, Too Bad? Sponsored Colloquium: Exercise is Medicine®
J. Richard Coast, FACSM, Craig A. Harms, FACSM, Models for Integrating Behavioral Strategies
Joseph W. Duke, Yannick Molgat-Seon, Andrew T. • Approaches to Integrating Physical Activity
Lovering
Training into Medical School Settings
• E tiology and Treatment of Exercise Associated • Diabetes Prevention: Program
Muscle Cramps: Emerging Research Implementation and Outcomes in a
• Exercise-induced Asthma in the Elite Athlete: Healthcare System
Diagnosis, Management, Performance • Doc, am I Clear to Exercise? Translating the
• Exercise-induced Autophagy: Metabolic New ACSM Exercise Screening Guidelines
Implications in Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle • Exercise and Cancer: Novel Insights from
• Exercise in Renal Disease: Physiological Whole Body Cardiovascular Effects Through
Foundations to Exercise Prescription the Tumor Microenvironment
• Physiological Geroscience: Targeting Function • Exercise Deficit Disorder in Children (EDD)
to Increase Healthspan • Exercise is Medicine® for Mental Illness:
• Retraining the Vasculature for Cardio- Implementation of Evidence-Based
metabolic Health after Spinal Cord Injury Approaches
• Stem Cells, Cardiomyogenesis and Aerobic • Exercise Physiology in 50 Minutes
Exercise Training • Helping Our Kids Move: Current Approaches
and Obstacles
Clinical Exercise Physiology • Implementation Science: A Key to
Highlighted Symposium: Who Wins: The Tortoise Dissemination of Exercise is Medicine in
or the Hare in the Race for Health Benefits? Underserved Populations
• Back to Basics: Applying Training Principles • Integrating Exercise Data into Electronic
for Effective Exercise Prescription in Cancer Medical Records: Advancements in Oncology
Patients • Linking Patients to Community Resources:
• Physical Activity and Exercise for Individuals The Role of Physical Activity Referral
with Type 1 Diabetes Scheme
• Methods for Evaluating Effectiveness of
Environmental and Occupational Promoting Physical Activity in Healthcare
Physiology • Moving Kids to Learn: Adding “Recess” and
“Running” to the 3 R’s
Highlighted Symposium: Heat Tolerance Test:
• Optimal Dose of Running for Health –
Relevance for Return to Duty, Return to Play
Robert W. Kenefick, FACSM, Yoram Epstein, FACSM, Is More Better or Worse?
Lisa Leon, Francis G. O’Connor, FACSM • Reduced Walking Speed and Distance as
Harbingers of the Approaching Grim Reaper
• 70-Day Bed Rest Simulation of the Next
• Resistance Training: Role in Prevention and
Generation Exercise Protocol for Spaceflight
Treatment of Chronic Disease I
• Heat Stress and the Aged Cardiovascular
• Resistance Training: Role in Prevention and
System
Treatment of Chronic Disease II
• Thermal Afferent Feedback and Sensation,
• The Disability and Physical Inactivity
from TRP Channels to Comfort, Fatigue and
Conundrum – Does EIM Apply to All?
Performance
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• The Exercise Vital Sign: An Overview of the Physical Activity/Health Promotion
Kaiser Permanente Experience Interventions
• The Newly Approved NIH Common Fund
• Beyond the Games: Global Health Legacies
Physical Activity Research Initiative
of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
• Using Exercise to Treat Eating and Weight
• CDC Session
Disorders
• Effective Methods of Engaging Low
Fitness Assessment, Exercise SES Populations: From the Clinic to the
Training, and Performance of Community
• Enhancing Children’s Health and Academic
Athletes and Healthy People
Performance
Highlighted Symposium: Leveling the Playing Field: • Exercise and Pregnancy
Adapted Training for Individuals with Disabilities • Impact of Prenatal Exercise on Maternal/
Walter R. Thompson, FACSM, Cheri A. Blauwet, Glen Offspring Cardiovascular Health
M. Davis, FACSM, Laurie A. Malone, Eli A. Wolff
• Is the Nation Stepping it Up? Monitoring
• A Recognition of Barbara Drinkwater’s the Success of the Surgeon General’s Call to
Research on Women in Sport Action
• Do Physiological Sex-differences Affect • Natural Experiments of the Built
Exercise Performance? Environment and Active Transportation
• European College of Sport Science Exchange • Physical Activity Technology Research in
Lecture Diverse Populations
• High Intensity Functional Training (HIFT): • So, Where Have All the Men Gone?
A Look at its Physiological Effects • Stressed Out?… Get Moving!
• The Making of Messi: Talent Identification • Targeting Sitting to Increase Activity and
and Development in Elite Youth Soccer Improve Health
• Walking: Steps to Promote Health for All –
Immunology/Genetics/ Leaps to Improve Health Disparities
Endocrinology • What’s Up With “Step It Up! The Surgeon
General’s Call to Action?”
Highlighted Symposium: Stress and Reproductive
Dysfunction in Exercising Females: Neuroendocrine
Professional Development/
Mechanisms, Clinical Applications, and Why More
Research is Necessary Organizational Information
Nancy I. Williams, FACSM, Judy Cameron, Sarah J. • Certification and Academic Accreditation,
Berga, Mary Jane De Souza, FACSM Moving The Profession Forward
• Exercise and Stem Cells: Thinking Beyond • Enhancing the Undergraduate Exercise
Skeletal Muscle Science Research Experience: A Model to
• Exosomes: Inter-organ Crosstalk Mediators Share
• The Physiologic Interactions of Growth, • From Labs to Communities: Diverse Research
Maturation, and Sport Contributions of ACSM’s Leadership and
Diversity Training Program Participants
Metabolism and Nutrition • Introduction of the Translational Journal
Highlighted Symposium: Translating Nutrigenomics
Psychology, Behavior and
and Sport Genomics into Practice – Ready for
Prime Time? Neurobiology
Stella L. Volpe, FACSM, Ahmed El-Sohemy, Nanci S. Highlighted Symposium: Physical Activity, Sports
Guest, Christopher J. Womack, FACSM, David J. Bishop, or Fitness: Fighting Fatness or Finding Enjoyment?
FACSM The Youth Dilemma
• American Psychological Association Exchange
• Bengt Saltin and 50 years of Exercise Science
Lecture
• Dietary Nitrate and Exercise Performance:
• Applying Cognitive Science to Enhance
What’s New?
Learning in Exercise Science
• Dietary Protein in Support of Exercise
• Conducting Randomized Controlled Trials in
Adaptations and Heath
Exercise and Mental Health
• Dietary Supplement Contamination and
• Perceptions of Fatigue in Exercise and Disease
Sports Drug Testing
• Physical Activity, Exercise, and Pain
• Mitochondria and Energy Balance: What are
Sensitivity
the Cellular Players?
• Physical Activity as a Treatment and
• Substrate Utilization following Exercise: Does
Prevention of Sleep Problems
it Assist in Maintaining Energy Balance
• Physical Literacy in Diverse Populations of
• What is Optimal Nutritional Fueling for
Children and Youth: A Call to Action
Training and Performance?
• Promoting Physical Activity in Adolescents
with Intellectual Disabilities
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Skeletal Muscle, Bone and • Exercise-induced Oxidative Stress: Cause and
Connective Tissue Consequences
• Mechanisms of Resistance Training-induced
Highlighted Symposium: Controversial Exercise
Muscular Hypertrophy in Humans
Applications to Disease Conditions
• Multisystem Impact of Estrogen-deficiency
Joshua T. Selsby, Kenneth Wilund, Iraklis Pipinos
with Aging and Physical Activity
• Biomechanical and Biological Contributors to • New Insights into Exercise-induced
Bone Stress Injuries in Runners Mitochondrial Adaptations
• Blood Flow Restriction: Applying the Science • Pericytes as Mediators of Skeletal Muscle
to Sports Idols and Military Heroes Adaptation
• Bone Health in the Adolescent Athlete
• Bone Turnover Markers: Utility and
Responses to Exercise and Feeding
• Cell Signaling in Muscle and Tendon
Preconferences (free for all registrants)
Preconference and Networking Opportunity
Tuesday May 31, 3:00-7:00 p.m.
Graduate and Early Career Day
Hosted by the Student Affairs Committee and the SHI-Women, Sport & Physical Activity
See following page for more information.
Preconference
Tuesday May 31, 12:00-3:30 p.m. (prior to the PINES preconference)
Gatorade Sports Science Institute’s Sports Nutrition Preconference
GSSI brings together some of the leading sports nutrition experts, researchers and scientists to
provide you with an afternoon of cutting edge research and insights. Visit the Annual Meeting
website this fall for session details. www.acsmannualmeeting.org
Preconference
Tuesday afternoon, May 31
PINES Ten Questions, Ten Experts: Diet, Exercise & Appetite
Visit www.acsmannualmeeting.org for more information
Preconference
Tuesday afternoon, May 31
ACSM Media Training: Delivering Your Message
Visit www.acsmannualmeeting.org for more information
Abstract Deadline
Now accepting Scientific Abstract and Clinical Case submissions!
Please visit www.acsmannualmeeting.org to submit your abstract.
Deadline is November 2, 2015 11:59 p.m. PST.
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Students – More for you in Boston!
Tuesday Cup winner will present their research in a
poster format at the ACSM Annual Meeting
Graduate and Early Career Day Wednesday evening to compete for prizes!
Preconference
Detailed rules will be sent to the executive
The Graduate and Early Career Day boards of each ACSM regional chapter.
Preconference is focused on the development To see how to be involved in your regional
of careers for graduate students and early career chapter, go to www.acsm.org/membership/
professionals. The session promotes networking regional-chapters/find-a-regional-chapter.
and mentorship between early career members
and senior investigators for scientific outreach Student Bowl
and career building. The general session will be Cheer on your regional chapter at the 9th
followed by breakout sessions. annual Student Bowl. In this popular event,
students face off in a friendly, Jeopardy-style
These sessions will be in a discussion meeting
competition showcasing their sports medicine
setting. There will be sessions for graduate
and exercise science knowledge.
students, pre-doctorial students, international
students, post-doctorial students and junior
faculty as well as those interested in business Friday
careers. The purpose of this setting is to
Meet the Experts
engage the participants in feeling comfortable
asking questions, participating by adding their Sign up when you register for the Annual
personal experiences and allowing other senior Meeting. Space is limited. Be assured that this
investigators attending the session to share their hour lunch/networking session with ACSM’s
experiences. leaders will be an opportunity of a lifetime!
These sessions are open to all attendees but will
All Week
be specifically targeted to graduate and early-
career participants. The Graduate and Early Student Lounge
Career Day requires no advance registration
There will be a special area in the convention
and attendance is free as part of the ACSM
center where students can gather. Look for
registration.
signage on site so you can stop by, take a load
off your feet, and meet fellow students, make
Wednesday
new friends and read over your Annual Meeting
Wednesday is “Student Day” materials.
Student Volunteer Program
Student Colloquium
If you are interested in cutting costs of your
This year’s colloquium will focus on careers
registration by dedicating at least four hours
outside academia.
of time working for ACSM at the Annual
Get Moving! Student Campaign to Meeting, this program is for you! Contact
[email protected] starting February 15, 2016
Promote Activity
to receive more information and scheduling
Submit a video encouraging conference opportunities.
attendees to remain physically active at
the meeting. You could win a free Student Help Desk
conference registration and $500.
Representatives from the Student Affairs
Visit www.acsmannualmeeting.org for more
Committee will be there to help you navigate
information.
the exciting week of presentations and special
events during the Annual Meeting
President’s Cup Poster
Competition – New! Stay tuned to the student section of the ACSM
website to access the Advance Program for the
Be a part of a new ACSM tradition. Graduate
list of speakers, topics and further details on
students are encouraged to present their
these exciting events!
research (poster or oral) at their regional
chapter’s annual meeting. Each regional Career Opportunities
chapter will determine the top graduate
The onsite job boards are a popular attraction
student presentation. ACSM national office
for new graduates and attendees searching
will provide the selected graduate student
for a job. Employers may post free job
up to $1,200 travel allowance to attend the
announcements on-site.
ACSM Annual Meeting in Boston in 2016,
and free registration. Each regional President
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