Lecture from Prof Myles O’Brien at the 2024 annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine
Professor Myles O’Brien from ImpactsLab and his students attended the 2024 American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting in Boston. During the event, Prof Myles O’Brien offered a lecture entitled “To Who and Where Do I Send My Patients to be Physically Active?” alongside Dr. Jonathon Fowles and Dr. Taniya Nagpal.
Podium presentation: Taylor Wilson “Impact of a Walk with a Future Doc program on participant frailty levels.”
Posters presentation: Madeline Shivgulam “What are the qualifications for an exercise professional? A content-analysis of Canadian job advertisements”, Jocelyn Waghorn “Meeting muscle strengthening guidelines is associated with better cardiovagal baroreflex sensitivity in adults”, Emily MacDonald “Impact and perceptions of a workplace wellness initiative providing a standing desk converter to academic staff”, Minji Choi “Impact of a Medical Student led Walk with a Future Doc program on executive function in older adults” and Molly Courish “Relationship between frailty and Executive Function by Age & Sex in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging”.
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) advances and integrates scientific research to provide educational and practical applications of exercise science and sports medicine. ACSM is the largest and oldest organization in the world dedicated to sports medicine and exercise science.
National Health and Fitness Day 2024
The first Saturday in June is “National Health and Fitness Day” across Canada. For the members of the IMPACTS Research Laboratory, who study the predictors and mechanisms linking physical activity to health trajectories, we feel it is important to put into practice what our research reveals. On a day-to-day basis, we try to foster a work environment that promotes healthy lifestyle habits as a whole… and we succeed thanks to a great team!
A DUO 2024-2026 for Myles O’Brien and Shirko Ahmadi from IMPACTS Lab
Our sincere congratulations to IMPACTS Lab colleagues Myles O’Brien, Shirko Ahmadi and Said Mekari, and their invaluable collaborators from Vitalité Health Network – Réseau de Santé Vitalité, Mathieu Dumont, Monique Dufour Doiron and Luc Cormier, on obtaining a DUO 2024-2026 grant.
The harmful effects of prolonged sitting
Published in the American Journal of Hypertension, this article from Prof Myles O’Brien and colleagues shows the harmful effects of prolonged sitting on blood pressure variability.
Publication from Myles O’Brien on Walk with a Future Doc program
Read in the Canadian Medical Education Journal an article by Prof Myles O’Brien on a medical student-led community program. If you would like to know more about current projects or would like to collaborate with Dr. O’Brien, please contact him at Myles.OBrien@USherbrooke.ca To read the article: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cmej/article/view/77055
Photo: Pamela Tanguay with Prof Rivard Nathalie, Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies, Research and Innovation, Prof Nicole Marquis, Co-Director, and Prof Patrice Perron, Associate Dean and Executive Vice-Dean. Pr Mathieu Belanger, who was absent when the photo was taken, is also co-director.
Photo: Daniel Saucier flanked by Dr Michel Landry, Associate Dean, French Atlantic, and Prof Mathieu Belanger. Prof Colleen O’Connell, who was not present when the photo was taken, is also co-director.