[415] Guest Speaker At MTSU Tells How To Stop Sitting, Start Moving

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 13, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

GUEST SPEAKER AT MTSU TELLS HOW TO STOP SITTING, START MOVING
Expert on Impact of Physical Activity on Health, Wellness Slated to Lecture

(MURFREESBORO) – The MTSU Center for Physical Activity and Health in Youth will sponsor “Exercise is Medicine—and a Whole Lot More: Physical Activity Promotion Strategies for a Sedentary Society,” a lecture by Dr. Gregory Welk, at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 21, in the State Farm Lecture Hall of MTSU’s Business and Aerospace Building. This event is free and open to the public.
Welk is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Director of Clinical Research and Community Outreach with the Nutrition and Wellness Research Center at Iowa State University. His research and clinical interests have focused on the role of physical activity in obesity prevention and the assessment and promotion of physical activity and fitness in youth.
Currently, Welk is involved in funded projects aimed at analyzing measurement error in self-report measures of physical activity and evaluating a new activity monitor that integrates heart rate and other data to provide better estimates of the amount of energy expended during physical activity.
Welk also serves as scientific director of the FITNESSGRAM program at the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research and coordinates research and outreach activities with the Campus Community Partnership for Health, an interdisciplinary research collaborative that works with schools, communities and worksites to promote healthy lifestyles across Iowa.
For more information, contact Dr. Don Morgan at 615-898-5549 or dmorgan@mtsu.edu.


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ATTENTION, MEDIA: For a jpeg photo of Dr. Gregory Welk, contact Gina Logue in the MTSU Office of News and Media Relations at 615-898-5081 or gklogue@mtsu.edu.



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