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Dr Kylie Ball
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing Sponsored Speaker
"People, places, and disparities in physical activity participation: Why some are more equal than others"
Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University, Australia
Dr Kylie Ball is a NHMRC/Heart Foundation Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition at Deakin University. Kylie's research program is concerned with the epidemiology and promotion of physical activity and healthy eating and the prevention of obesity, with a particular focus on addressing gender and socioeconomic inequalities. She is currently the President of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, and a member of the Heart Foundation's National Physical Activity Committee. |
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Professor Michael Benjamin
Asics Sponsored Speaker
"Entheses (tendon and ligament attachment sites): basic considerations for considering enthesopathies in sport"
Musculoskeletal Biology and Sports Medicine Research, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom
Mike Benjamin is a Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology and Sports Medicine Research at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. His research interests focus around ligaments and tendons and in particular, their attachments to bone. These insertion sites (called 'entheses') are commonly involved in overuse injuries in sport. Mike has published approximately 150 papers over his 30 year career as a University lecturer. He was awarded an honorary MD in 1998 by the Faculty of Health Sciences and the University Hospital Linköping, Sweden for his contributions to sports medicine research and his excellence as a scientific teacher and he won the Messner prize for sports medicine research in 2001. Mike is the Director of the Wales Virtual Institute of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, a visiting Professor at the AO Research Institute in Davos, Switzerland, and a member (past or present) of the editorial board of several journals. Mike has given invited talks on entheses at numerous major conferences and in many parts of the world - including Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, USA, Mexico, Japan and China. He is an honorary consultant in Anatomy to UK Athletics and is the father of Tim Benjamin, the British international 400m runner.
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Mr Simon Bartold
Asics Sponsored Speaker
“What’s needed and what’s possible: taking a technical approach to developing sports footwear for high risk patients.”
Sports Podiatrist and Footwear Design Specialist
Simon Bartold is a graduate of Adelaide University where he gained a Bachelor Degree in Science with a major in Physiology. His further qualification in Podiatry was gained at the University of South Australia. He was awarded the University prize for dux of the course. Simon holds postgraduate fellowships in Sports Podiatry with the Australian Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine and in Sport Sciences with Sports Medicine Australia. He has completed studies in advanced podiatric biomechanics and has published papers nationally and internationally. In 1998 was awarded the prestigious Best Clinical Paper award for original research at the Australian Conference of Science and Medicine in Sport. He repeated this feat in 2002 with a paper entitled “A Numerical Foot Model to Predict Sole Stability Parameters in Athletic Footwear”. It is the first time this award has been presented to the same researcher twice. He is currently completing his first book, “The Foot and Leg in Sport”, due to be published late in 2006.
Simon has been an executive board member of the Australian Sports Medicine Federation and Past President of the Australian Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine, and remains the only podiatrist worldwide to ever hold a commission position with the International Sports Medicine Federation (F.I.M.S.). He has been the consultant podiatrist to the Australian Institute of Sport Cricket Academy as well as a number of state and national sporting teams. He was a member of Podiatry Services at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. He is an Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport and the Australasian Physiotherapy Journal and a journal reviewer for the Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine and the British Journal of Sports Medicine. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine.
Apart from private practice, Simon is an adjunct lecturer to the School of Health Sciences at the University of South Australia. Research interests include the technical aspects of athletic footwear and pressure/force measurement in relation to intervention parameters and injury.
Simon’s “real job” is as International Research Coordinator for the global body of the Asics Corporation.
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Overall Plenary Keynote
Professor Steven Blair
Asics Sponsored Speaker
Human Kinetics, Active Ageing SA and Centre for Physical Activity & Ageing Supported Speaker
“Physical Inactivity: The Major Public Health Problem of the 21st Century”
“The LIFE Pilot Study—A Trial of Physical Activity for Disability Prevention”
“Exercise Dose-Response
in Postmenopausal Women: The DREW Study”
Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
Steven N. Blair is Professor in the Departments of Exercise Science and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina; and Executive Lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion, and Recreation, University of North Texas. He also is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the College of Education at the University of Houston. He is a Benjamin Meaker Fellow at the University of Bristol, England. Dr. Blair is a Fellow in the American College of Epidemiology, Society for Behavioral Medicine, American College of Sports Medicine, American Heart Association, and American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education; and was elected to membership in the American Epidemiological Society.
Dr. Blair is a past-president of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity, and the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. Dr. Blair is the recipient of three honorary doctoral degrees--Doctor Honoris Causa degree from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium; Doctor of Health Science degree from Lander University, U.S.; and Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, University of Bristol, UK. He has received awards from many professional associations, including a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health, ACSM Honor Award, Robert Levy Lecture Award from the American Heart Association, and is one of the few individuals outside the U.S. Public Health Service to be awarded the Surgeon General's Medallion. He has delivered lectures to medical, scientific, and lay groups in 48 states and 30 countries. His research focuses on the associations between lifestyle and health, with a specific emphasis on exercise, physical fitness, body composition, and chronic disease. He has published over 370 papers and chapters in the scientific literature, and was the Senior Scientific Editor for the U.S. Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health. |
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Professor Johannes Brug
South Australian Department of Health Sponsored Speaker
“Personal and environmental determinants of physical activity: theory,
evidence, and implications for programs and policy.”
Department of Public Health, Erasmus university Medical Center and
Department of Health Education and Promotion, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Brug received a Master of Science degree in human nutrition from Wageningen University and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Dutch Epidemiology Institute. He obtained his PhD (Public Health) at Maastricht University. At present Hans Brug is professor of Determinants of Public Health at the Department of Public Health of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Brug worked for the Dutch TNO Nutrition Institute, the Dutch Cancer Society, the School of Social Sciences of the Netherlands Open University (as dean of education) and for the Faculty of Health Sciences at Maastricht University (as professor of Nutrition Education). Brug’s main research interests are the development and evaluation of health education and health promotion interventions. His research covers the scope from studies on the determinants of health behaviors, small-scale experimentation with innovative health education interventions, and larger-scale field experiments in which the efficacy and external validity of health promoting interventions are tested. Brug is a member of the grant panels of the World Cancer Research Fund, the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development’s prevention program, and the Netherlands Heart Foundation’s epidemiology and prevention program. He was a consultant for the Dutch Nutrition Bureau and the Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and a member of the Netherlands Health Council committee on overweight and obesity. Brug is the editor of the Dutch handbook on health education and health promotion, he is co-editor of the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Brug is also president elect of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.
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Dr David Buchner
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing Sponsored Speaker
“A Decade of Progress in Promoting Physical Activity in Older Adults”
Chief, Physical Activity and Health Branch, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta
David M. Buchner, M.D., M.P.H. received his B.A. degree from Harvard University and his M.D. from University of Kansas. He received his general internal medicine training at the University of Indiana in Indianapolis, where he was chief resident. After his housestaff training, he was selected to be a fellow in the Robert Wood John Clinical Scholars Program at University of Washington, where he received his M.P.H. degree and training in geriatric medicine. Dr. Buchner joined the University of Washington faculty in 1982, and rose to the rank of Professor of Health Services in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and the rank of Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine. In 1986, he joined the health services research program at the Seattle VA Medical Center, and split his time between UW and VA activities. While at the University of Washington, Dr. Buchner's positions included Director of Community Medicine and Co-Director, UW Center for Cost and Outcomes Research. He was an original investigator in the CDC-funded Prevention Research Center in 1986, and eventually became Director of the research center. He has published extensively in the areas of physical activity in older adults and the role of physical activity in preventing fall injuries. Honors include being voted as one of Seattle's best doctors, and being identified as one of the top 20 people in Washington State who have had an impact in promoting physical activity in the state.
In 1999, Dr. Buchner joined CDC as Chief of the Physical Activity and Health Branch. The major activities of the Physical Activity and Health Branch involve national monitoring of physical activity levels, research and development related to community-level approaches to promoting physical activity, and programmatic initiatives related to physical activity. |
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Dr Dennis Caine
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing Sponsored Speaker
"The epidemiological approach to promoting safety of children in exercise and sport.”
"Grace, Perfection, and Risk”
Professor and Chair, Department of Physical Education, Exercise Science and Wellness, University of North Dakota, USA
Dennis is Professor and Chair, Department of Physical Education, Exercise Science and Wellness at the University of North Dakota, where he also teaches courses on human growth and adapted physical activity. He received his B.P.E. and B.ED. degrees from the University of Manitoba, M.ED. from the University of British Columbia, and his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. His research and writing, much of it on paediatric sports injuries and the effects of training on growth, resulted from his collaboration in several longitudinal growth and injury epidemiology studies involving gymnasts in Canada and the United States. In addition to the research reports and articles arising from these and other studies, Dennis has also published three co-edited books on the epidemiology of injury in competitive sports and another co-authored volume on the Scientific Aspects of Women’s Gymnastics. He has served on the editorial review boards of the Physician and Sports Medicine and the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, and is currently an editorial board member for the British Journal of Sports Medicine. |
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Professor Philip Darbyshire
Chair of Nursing, Department of Nursing & Midwifery Research & Practice Development, University of South Australia
Philip Darbyshire has a Masters degree in Nursing from Glasgow University and a PhD from Edinburgh University. The subject of his PhD was the experiences of parents who ‘lived in’ with their hospitalised child. Philip writes and reviews for several nursing journals, both in Australia and internationally and has presented seminars and keynote papers at numerous hospitals, universities and conferences across the world.
His research and education interests involve the promotion of clinical research and scholarship, interpretive approaches to understanding child and family health and illness and the development of Arts & Humanities approaches in health care education.
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Dr Damian Farrow
“Evaluating Knee Interventions from a Motor Learning Perspective”
Senior Skill Acquisition Specialist, Sports Science & Sports Medicine, Australian Institute of Sport
Dr. Damian Farrow was appointed as the inaugural Skill Acquisition Specialist at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 2002. He is responsible for the provision of evidence-based sports science support to Australian coaches and athletes seeking to measure and improve the design of practice and other aspects of skill learning. He has worked with a wide range of sub-elite and elite level programs including: Australian/AIS Rugby (Wallabies); Australian/AIS Netball; AIS/AFL, AIS Swimming; Cricket Australia Centre of Excellence; and the Adelaide Crows football club. A former tennis coach and physical education teacher, his research interests centre on understanding the development of sport expertise, specifically investigating the role of decision-making skill and implicit (subconscious) learning. He is also co-author of three general interest sports science books “Run Like You Stole Something”, “Why Dick Fosbury Flopped” and “It’s True: Sport Stinks”. |
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Professor David Gallahue
"Motor Development and Movement Skill Learning: From Theory to Practice in Junior Sports Activity Programs”
Professor of Kinesiology and Dean of the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (HPER) at Indiana University
David L. Gallahue is Professor of Kinesiology and Dean of the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (HPER) at Indiana University. He received his B.S. degree from Indiana University, M.S. degree from Purdue University, and Ed D degree from Temple University. Dr. Gallahue is active in the study of the applied aspects of the motor development and movement skill learning of children and youth in physical activity and sport settings. David is the author of numerous textbooks, book chapters, and journal articles. His work has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and Greek.
David Gallahue has been a Visiting Professor, Guest Lecturer and Keynote Speaker on over 200 occasions at universities and professional conferences in over 20 countries. He is a Past-president of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) and Past-chair of the Council on Physical Education for Children (COPEC), and the Motor Development Academy. He is an elected member of both the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education (AAKPE) and the North American Society for HPER.SD. He has received the Healthy American Fitness Award, and has been the International Vice President for both the Asian Council on Exercise and Sport Science (ACESS), and the International Society for the Study of Children (SIEC). He is also a Consulting Editor for the Brazilian Journal of Physical Education and Sport.
David Gallahue has served as a consultant to two governing bodies of the United States Olympic Committee (USA Gymnastics & USA Skiing), the National Institute for Fitness and Sport (NIFS), and several school districts. He has been recognized nationally and internationally for scholarship and leadership focused on children and youth, and has received Honorary Professorships at Beijing Sport University and Chengdu Sport University, both in China.
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Refshauge
Lecturer
Dr Sandy Gordon, FAPS
Australian Sports Medicine Federation Fellows Sponsored Speaker
“Applied Positive Psychology for Health Professionals”
Sport Psychologist, The University of Western Australia
Sandy is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Movement and Exercise Science at The University of Western Australia, where he teaches Sport and Exercise Psychology and Coaching Psychology. He is a Registered Sport Psychologist (WA), Fellow member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), and member of both the APS Interest Group of Coaching Psychology (IGCP) and College of Sport Psychologists (CoSP). Accreditation also includes Advanced and Professional Development Executive coaching certificates from the Institute of Coaching and Consulting Psychology. He serves on three Editorial Boards and regularly reviews for several other periodicals that publish applied sport psychology research. He has authored or co-authored over 80 publications as either book chapters or journal articles, and presented over 100 conference papers a third of which as invited keynote speaker. His current research interests include mental toughness and resilience in sport, emotional labour in the service of professional sport, and the psycho-immunological aspects of sport injury. Sandy has contributed to coach education programs in over 10 countries in addition to Australia, and he has extensive sport psychology consulting experience in the performing arts and business, as well as in professional sport. |
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Dr Michael Kellmann
“Overtraining Prevention & Recovery in High Performance Athletes”
Senior Lecturer of Sport and Exercise Psychology, School of Human Movement Studies and Psychology, The University of Queensland
Michael Kellmann completed his habilitation at the University of Potsdam (Germany) in January 2002 in the area of recovery research and his doctoral dissertation in 1997 at Würzburg University (Germany) in the area of coaches’ behaviour during rest periods. From April 2002 until March 2007 he was head of department of sport psychology at the Faculty of Sport Science at Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany). He is currently a senior lecturer holding a joint appointment with the School of Human Movement Studies and Psychology.
Dr Kellmann is a member of the Association of Applied Sport Psychology and German Psychological Association. In addition, he served for six years on the executive board of the German Association of Sport Psychology and is on the editorial board of The Sport Psychologist, Sciences and Techniques of Physical Activities and Sports, the Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie (German Journal of Sport Psychology), and the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Sportmedizin (German Journal of Sport Medicine).
Michael Kellmann's current research activities include overtraining prevention and recovery enhancement, sport psychological diagnostics and intervention, coaches behaviour during competition and practice as well as personality and performance competence of coaches in sports.
Michael's work has appeared in several publications. He is co-author of Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for Athletes: User Manual and edited the book Enhancing Recovery: Preventing Under performance in Athletes both published by Human Kinetics (USA).
In his applied work Michael Kellmann has consulted with and conducted research for the National Sport Centre Calgary in Canada, the Olympic Training Centre's in Potsdam and Dortmund/Bochum (Germany), and was the head sport psychologist of the German National Rowing Federation. Under his supervision the team of the department of sport psychology at Ruhr-University of Bochum has established sport psychological consultation for four German sport federations. Michael was the chair of the only education, training, and certification program for German sport psychologist “Sport psychology in high performance sport” of the German Association of Sport Psychology and the German Psychologists Board. |
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Associate Professor Karim Khan
“From the cell nucleus to the medal podium: Why basic science is relevant for SMA clinicians and our patients.”
CIHR New Investigator, Centre for Hip Health, Department of Family Practice, The University of British Columbia
Karim is an Australian-trained sports physician now based in Vancouver, Canada. He divides his time between the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Clinic at the University of British Columbia and a vibrant federally-funded musculoskeletal research centre that focuses on tendon problems, bone health, and falls prevention through exercise. He is well-known to Australian clinicians for the fact that his Clinical Sports Medicine coauthor photo didn't change over13 years during 2 editions. However, reality has now taken hold. So not only has that text has been substantially updated by 50 Australian and international coauthors, his photo now shows how dog-sledding to work in the rugged Canadian winters have taken their toll.
Karim will share insights into (i) some very relevant basic science -- animations that bring to life the cellular mechanisms that underpin successful clinical rehabilitation, (ii) a 5-minute clinical approach to the problem of longstanding groin pain, and (iii) advice for busy clinicians who feel inspired to publish but are not sure where to begin |
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Vince Higgins
Lecturer
Professor Michael Kjaer
“How do tendons adapt to exercise - how much training is enough and what is too much?”
“Who is overloaded in skeletal muscle, the muscle cell or the intramuscular connective tissue? - and does anti-inflammatory medicine help?”
Sports Medicine Research Unit, Department of Rheumatology, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Michael Kjaer is a rheumatologist and Professor in Sports Medicine and Head of the Institute of Sports Medicine at Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen.
Michael is a prolific researcher; with 251 published publications and textbook chapters on exercise physiology, nutrition/exercise, muscle/connective tissue physiology and sports medicine. He is Editor-in-chief of the “Textbook of Sports Medicine” (810 pp, 2003).
He has given 122 international scientific lectures, 68 invited congress-lectures and 230 national scientific lectures. He has won two international and three national prices for research.
He is on the editorial board of three journals, an editor at the Journal of Physiology and editor-in-chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports.
He has supervised 14 PhD-theses to completion and mentored three doctorate of science (medicine) degrees. He is currently supervising eight PhD-students, two post docs, and four master students from exercise science and human biology.
He has places on the board at the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre and was appointed to the health-science working groups in Ministry of Health, Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Social Affaires. He is Head of Research Board, Bispebjerg Hospital and Head of Board for Anti-Doping Denmark (2004-6).
Michael Kjaer is also President of the European College of Sports Science (2003-5) and the Danish Medical Society in Copenhagen.
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Dr David Lloyd
“Different Studies Provide the Biomechanical and Neuromuscular Evidence Needed to Design an Effective Intervention”
School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, University of Western Australia
Dr Lloyd is a senior lecturer in biomechanics and motor control in the School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, University of Western Australia. David is a Mechanical Engineer, with a PhD in biomechanics, and post doctoral training in neurophysiology. David’s main areas of study are in neuromuscular joint stabilisation, neuromuscular and biomechanical mechanisms involved in the development and progression of knee osteoarthritis, and ACL injury. This work includes development of training programmes to prevent progression of joint degeneration, and to lower risk of ligament injures. David and colleagues have had continuous NHMRC funding since 1999 for to study knee osteoarthritis. They have developed training programmes to prevent ACL injuries in sport, for which they have AFL research funding since 2001. David and colleagues have been awarded the first large project grant by the NHMRC in the area of sports medicine/sports science research to trial their training programmes in the "real world" to see ACL injury rates can be reduced. |
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Deirdre McGhee
“Stretching: A Clinical Perspective”
University of Wollongong, NSW
Deirdre McGhee is an APA Sports Physiotherapist and a part time academic at the University of Wollongong in the School of Health Sciences (Exercise Science). She is currently completing her PhD, in the area of breast biomechanics, sports bra design and bra fit. |
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Associate Professor Colin MacDougall
Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA
Colin MacDougall is deputy head (research) of the Department of Public Health in the School of Medicine at Flinders University. He co-ordinates the Doctor of Public Health program and teaches in the medical degree. Colin has worked as a psychologist with children and families, founded and managed a community health service for children and families and engaged in policy and planning work. He has a Master of Arts degree in working with families in relation to children’s behaviour and a PhD in physical activity and public policy. Since moving to public health he has held extensive research grants and consultancies. He has co-edited a book on health promotion for Oxford University Press and published on physical activity, qualitative research methodology, intersectoral action, and community participation. Currently, he is involved in research on location and health, and participation of children in health promotion; with particular relevance to the relationship between child development, health and wellbeing and control over the environment. |
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Dr Melinda Manore
“Female Athlete Triad: Nutrition, Bone and Health Consequences”
“Nutrition and Bone: Are we doing enough?”
Department of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, Oregon State University
Dr. Melinda M. Manore is a Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences at Oregon State University (OSU). She was the Chair of Nutrition and Food Management at OSU, before it merged with Exercise and Sport Science, and prior to coming to OSU she was a professor at Arizona State University for 17 years. She teaches classes in nutrition including nutrition and exercise, nutrition assessment, supplements and functional foods, and communications in dietetics. She has presented more than 80 invited scientific and lay lectures on nutrition topics including sports nutrition, dieting and weight control, the female athlete triad, supplements and the role of diet and exercise in disease prevention.
Her research is in the area of nutrition and exercise and is the author of over 100 scientific publications, book chapters, and review articles. She has also authored four books with Dr. Janice Thompson: Nutrition: An Applied Approach (2005) and Nutrition for Life (2007) and The Science of Nutrition (2008) published by Benjamin Cummings Publishers, and Sport Nutrition for Health and Performance published by Human Kinetics (2000). She has also authored two books as part of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Military Nutrition Research (2004, 2006).
She has advised over 30 nutrition and nutrition and exercise graduate students who have taken positions at Arizona State University, University of Bristol in UK, Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., Ross Laboratories, State of Arizona, University of Utah, hospitals and fitness facilities. She is on the Gatorade Sports Sciences Institute Sport Nutrition Advisory Board and a former member of the Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine Committee on Military Nutrition Research. She is also on the editorial boards of ACSM’s Health and Fitness Journal (former associate editor and wrote the nutrition column for this journal), Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (former associate editor),the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, Journal of Physical Activity and Health, and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association and an author on the Position Paper on Nutrition and Athletic Performance published by the ACSM, ADA and Dietitians of Canada in 2000 and ACSM Female Athlete Triad Position Paper (2007, in press). She is active in both the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), where she is a fellow and a member of the Board of Trustees and the American Dietetic Association (ADA), where she has chaired and served on numerous committees and. She is also a member of the American Society of Nutrition (ASN) and the North American Society for the Study of Obesity. She is a frequent source for the media on topics ranging from supplements, weight loss and popular diets, sports nutrition, and the role of diet and exercise in chronic diseases. Dr. Manore received her BA from Seattle Pacific University, her MS in Health Education from the University of Oregon and her PhD in Nutritional Sciences with minors in health and exercise science from Oregon State University and is a registered dietitian (RD). |
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Professor Ron Maughan
Mizone Rapid Sponsored
Speaker
“Current dilemmas in the use of supplements and nutritional aids”
School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Loughborough University, UK
Ron Maughan is a Professor of Sport and Exercise Nutrition at Loughborough University, a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and received that organisation's Citation Award in 2007. He is also a member of the Physiological Society, the Nutrition Society, the Biochemical Society, and the Medical Research Society. He chaired the Human and Exercise Physiology group of the Physiological Society for 10 years and was a member of the Council of that organisation. He is Chair of the Sports Nutrition group established by the IOC Medical Commission in 2002. He has acted as an adviser to UK Sport, UK Athletics, The FA, FIFA, the Irish Sports Council and to various other sporting bodies. In 2006-07 he was adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee enquiry on Human Enhancement Technologies in Sport. |
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Dr Benno Nigg
Adidas Sponsored
Speaker
“Impact forces, soft tissue vibrations and muscle tuning”
“Shoes and Orthotics - Knee Joint Loading”
“Shoes and Orthotics - Aligning the Skeleton?”
Director, Human Performance Laboratory, University of Calgary
Dr. Benno M. Nigg is the president and CEO of Biomechanigg Research Inc. He has a doctorate in natural sciences (Physics) from the ETH Zurich (Switzerland). From 1976 to 1981 he was the Director of the Biomechanics Laboratory of the ETH Zurich. In 1981, he was appointed Professor of Biomechanics in the Faculties of Kinesiology, Engineering and Medicine at the University of Calgary. He founded and directs the world famous Human Performance Laboratory (HPL), which currently has more than 100 co-workers. Recently, the research activities of the HPL have been assessed by independent external reviewers as “…. the best in the world in Clinical Biomechanical Research” and “… gold standard of scientific work in this field...”. Dr. Nigg’s research and consulting activities concentrate on load of the lower extremities during human locomotion. He has developed new paradigms for impact loading and for orthotic development, stressing the importance of muscles in control and protection. He had a major influence in the development of sport shoes and many functional features have been developed in his research centre. He is author of more than 275 scientific publications and the recipient of many awards (e.g. Olympic Order, Alberta Science and Technology Award) and elected member of three Scientific Academies. Dr. Nigg has an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Salzburg (Austria). |
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Associate Professor Claudio Nigg
“Understanding Physical Activity Behavior in Children: Integrating the Theory of Planned Behavior with the Stages of Change”
Department of Public Health Sciences, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dr. Claudio Nigg is an Associate Professor in the Social and Behavioral Health Sciences Program in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. His areas of interest include health and exercise psychology, youth, aging, theories of behavior change and using behavior modification techniques for the motivation to engage in health behaviors, specifically focusing on exercise/physical activity and multiple health behavior change. His work to date includes several experimental exercise interventions, theoretical investigations and stage-based intervention studies with youth and older adults. |
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Dr Craig Payne
Asics Sponsored
Speaker
“Forces, motion and outcomes with foot orthoses and running shoes”
“Valgus wedging for knee OA”
Department of Podiatry, School of Human Biosciences, Faculty of Health, LaTrobe University
Craig is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Podiatry at LaTrobe University, Melbourne. Research interests include determinants of outcomes with foot orthoses and running shoes; effects of forefoot function on foot biomechanics; and the roles of forces vs motion in overuse injuries. |
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Jodi Richardson
“Stretching and injury prevention”
Departments of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and Physiology, Monash University
Jodi Richardson recently completed her PhD at Monash University. Originally a Physical Education teacher, Jodi completed an Honours degree in Exercise and Sports Science investigating changes in gene expression in human skeletal muscle in response to resistance exercise. She then completed her PhD investigating the effect of progressive eccentric training on hamstring muscle properties, and the application of this research to hamstring injury prevention in Australian Rules football.
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Mr Daryl Sadgrove
“‘An Inconvenient Truth’ – Putting Prevention on the Richter Scale”
Director, Movement Medicine, Wollongong, NSW
Mr Sadgrove is a fellow and current Vice President of the Australian Association for Exercise and Sport Science, and is one of Australia’s most recognised practicing Exercise Physiologists. Mr Sadgrove is Director of Movement Medicine in Wollongong NSW and teaches at Wollongong University. Daryl has a strong history in delivering exercise interventions for chronic and complex populations and has research interests in behaviour change and self management in chronic disease. Daryl is also a lead investigator in the largest community based falls prevention program in Australia. Daryl is one of Australia’s leading lobbyists for physical activity and preventative medicine and has been involved in the development of a number of state and federal government initiatives including the Lifescripts resources for GP’s, the Federal Be Active Australia Strategic Plan, Broader Health Cover reforms for health funds and the Medicare Enhanced Primary Care program. |
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Mr Steve Saunders
Director, Saunders Sports and Spinal, Adelaide, SA
Steve is currently 8 years into his PhD candidature (part-time) at the university of Queensland. His research project investigates the motor control mechanisms underlying control of the lumbo-pelvic region during human locomotion in normal and low back pain subjects. Submission is scheduled for Mid 2007.
Steve has been a keynote and invited speaker at numerous national and international conferences over the past 5 years and has been teaching for 14 years. Much of this work has dealt primarily with the evaluation and training of lumbo-pelvic motor control and the assessment and treatment of lumbo-pelvic dysfunction.
As a clinician he has worked with numerous elite level sporting teams including the Australian Track and Field team and the South Australian Cricket Association. He has acted as consultant to many organizations including the UK Sports Institute, Brisbane Lions Football Club, Adelaide Football club and Squash Australia. |
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Professor Wendy Schiller
Director, deLissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies, Research and Community Development, University of South Australia
Writer, researcher and teacher, Professor Wendy Schiller has worked in Canada, South Africa, PNG and Australia with indigenous populations. She has taught at the tertiary level in Canada and Australia for twenty years and worked at the University of Alberta (Canada), Newcastle (Australia), Macquarie University and now UniSA. Wendy has edited and authored 11 books, over 20 book chapters and over 30 journal articles. She is currently Director of deLissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies (for research and community development) at UniSA and also the Technical Director for a $1.5 million AusAid teaching project in PNG. She has held in excess of $2 million in research funds and is a consultant to Windmill Performing Arts, Kindergym Australia, SA Minister of Education Advisory Committee ‘Active for life’, SA Department of Human Services, Australian Broadcasting Authority and Australian Sports Commission. Wendy was recently awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for service to early childhood education. |
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Andrew Smith
“To Play or not to Play”
Onkaparina Council & Parks And Leisure Australia, SA
Andrew Smith has worked in a variety of diverse fields including building, agriculture, printing and landscaping industries. After running his own successful mechanical business he returned to university in 1989 where he undertook a Degree in Recreation Management and Planning at the University of South Australia graduating in 1994 with honours. He has been actively involved in the sport and recreation industry for the past 18 years and has severed on a number of boards including the inaugural board of Recreation South Australia. As the President of Parks and Leisure SA/NT Andrew is also Parks and Leisure’s National Finance Director. Since completing his degree he has been employed by local government in a range of positions with his main focus on local sports clubs and in more recent times as a Senior Project Manager. |
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Associate Professor John Spence
“The Role of the Environment in Children’s Physical Activity: Where’s the Theory?”
Faculty of Physical Education & Recreation, University of Alberta
Dr. John C. Spence spends most of his time relaxing in the Sedentary Living Laboratory in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta. He has expertise in the area of behavioural medicine and research methods. His research focuses on both the benefits and determinants of physical activity and how physical inactivity is related to obesity. Dr. Spence has studied the broad social determinants (e.g., SES) and population physical activity patterns. More recently, he has focused on (a) the physical environment and how it may influence physical activity choices for both children and older adults (e.g., presence of parks and playgrounds), and (b) the effect of media (e.g., popular films) on physical activity and diet. Dr. Spence has a strong background in physical activity measurement, meta-analysis, and archival research. His work is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR). |
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Professor Harri Suominen
“Sprint-trained athletes as a model for musculoskeletal effects of exercise and aging”
“Exercise in elderly men - effects on bone and performance”
Professor in Exercise Gerontology, Department of Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Harri Suominen is Professor in Exercise Gerontology and Head of the Department of Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He has received his BSc in Physical education in 1970, his MSc in Exercise Physiology in 1972, and his PhD in Physiological Hygiene and Public Health in 1979, all from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He was deemed competent to apply for the professorship of Gerontology, University of Tampere, Finland in 1982 and Exercise Physiology, University of Jyväskylä in 1991. Accordingly, his research interests focus around the examination of musculoskeletal effects of exercise and ageing. Professor Suominen has over 100 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals and edited books and 170 international presentations (40 invited). He is an editor in Studies in Sport, Physical Education and Health, University of Jyväskylä, and a member of Editorial Board of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports and the European Review of Ageing and Physical Activity. He has acted as a reviewer in 20 international scientific journals and other expert review and referee tasks and he has been a chair and member of scientific and organising committees of several international congresses. His work is supported by the Ministry of Education, Finland, The Academy of Finland, Technology Development Centre, Finland as well as different foundations and companies. Professor Suominen received Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contributions to furthering the health and well-being of older men and women by the Center for the Study of Aging, Albany, New York in 1992. Further awards and honours include a Main Award in the contest for business activity from research results (Diagnosing Osteoporosis), Jyväskylä Science Park Ltd in 1995, a fellowship by the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) in 1996, a Travel Award by The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, San Francisco in 1998, Best Bone Study of the Years 2002 and 2005 by the Finnish Bone Society in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and the Andrus Viidik Price Lecture in Gerontology by The Nordic Gerontological Federation, Jyväskylä in 2006. |
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Associate Professor Catrine Tudor-Locke
“Using pedometers to measure PA in adults - the last five years”
School of Applied Arts & Sciences, Department of Exercise and Wellness, Polytechnic Campus, Arizona State University
Dr. Tudor-Locke established the Walking Research Laboratory to study ambulatory activities (e.g., walking) in a range of populations including youth, middle-aged women, older adults, and individuals with Type 2 diabetes. Her approach to the study of ambulatory activity using multiple methods developed from training in both epidemiology and health program evaluation. Dr. Tudor-Locke is a recognized expert in objective physical activity assessment, particularly with the pedometer, and actively collaborates with colleagues worldwide. Her consistent research focus is the evaluation of simple and practical theory-based interventions designed to increase walking behaviors. Dr. Tudor-Locke's students are currently conducting research on the validity and reliability of a range or objective monitors including pedometers and accelerometers; how American’s spend their time with particular reference to walking and sitting behaviors; transportation-related walking; and the measurement and impact of extended bouts of sitting time on health-related outcomes. |
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Dr Geoffrey Verrall
SPORTSMED, SA Sports Medicine Clinic, Adelaide
Geoffrey Verrall is a full time sports physician working at SPORTSMED, SA Sports Medicine Clinic in Adelaide. He is a graduate of the Adelaide University in 1988 and received his Fellowship of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians in 2003. He also undertakes sports medicine research and has numerous first author publications in hamstring and groin injuries. He received the Best Young Investigator award at the SMA National conference in 1998 for his research into activity-related groin injuries. He was the chair of the hamstring session of the 1st World Conference on Sports Injury prevention in 2005 and again has that role for the 2nd conference to be held in Tromso, Norway in 2008. He has recently completed the chapter on hamstring injury prevention for the International Olympic Committee Sports Injury prevention book. He is the current chief medical officer for the Norwood football club. |
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Professor Bill Vicenzino
Sports Medicine Australia Sponsored
Speaker
“Foot orthoses in the management of anterior knee pain: What is the evidence?”
Chair of Sports Physiotherapy & Head of Division of Physiotherapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland Bill is the newly appointed Chair of Sports Physiotherapy and head of the Division of Physiotherapy in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland. The establishment of the new Chair in Sports Physiotherapy is recognition of the future demands that will be placed on this field as the population ages and younger people undergo less incidental physical activity in their formative years. Sport and physical activity is an important area of health and well being with research required to help develop the knowledge base of the most effective ways to manage, treat and prevent injury.
Since graduating in 1980, Bill has worked in musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy, mainly in private practice. During studying for his Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy qualifications he developed a particular interest in the underpinning evidence for physical therapies – which ones work, why and how? His PhD (2000) focused on mechanisms of spinal manipulative therapy and resulted in publication of an evidenced based theoretical model for this physical treatment.
Lately his clinical research has focused on treatments for tennis elbow and neck pain, and the evidence supporting in-shoe orthotics versus manual therapy and exercise in the management of anterior knee pain. For example, a recently completed randomised clinical trial (RCT) funded by the NHMRC and published in the BMJ has shown that an active physiotherapy treatment of joint manipulation and exercise is on the whole better than steroid injections. His team is currently completing another NHMRC funded RCT into the use of orthoses in anterior knee pain whilst commencing an ARC linkage project that is seeking to better understand the role of both exercise (cross training) and physical therapies such as tape and orthoses on neuromuscular control of the leg and foot. This project is a collaborative effort with the AIS and several international researchers/laboratories and includes a team of 4 PhD scholars and a post-doctoral fellow. His research since his PhD has been supported by approximately $4.1M in competitive research grants.
Bill has communicated his findings from his research in 69 peer reviewed publications and over 120 workshops, seminars and conference presentations, largely over the past 6 years. He has supervised 6 PhD candidates and 15 Honours students to graduation.
Bill is the co-ordinator for the coursework Master of Sports Physiotherapy program at the University of Queensland and teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programs in musculoskeletal healthcare, focusing on lower limb and sports physiotherapy. He contributes to the publication of knowledge through service as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, as a member of the International Editorial Panel for Manual Therapy as well as an ad hoc reviewer to a number of sport and rehabilitation journals. He is also the UQ Chair of the Medical Research Ethics Committee and Chair of the Physiotherapy Registration Board of Queensland.
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