ACSM Annual Meeting Research Highlights for June 3

The American College of Sports Medicine’s 68th Annual Meeting, 12th World Congress on Exercise is Medicine and World Congress on the Basic Science of Exercise in Regenerative Medicine are taking place virtually this week from June 1 – 5, 2021. These three exciting meetings will happen simultaneously and feature new trends and research in sports medicine and exercise science.

Here is a selection of the research that will be presented today (Thursday, June 2). Contact Lisa Ramage to access sessions, connect with presenters or to view this year’s abstracts and clinical case ePosters.

• Tribute to Barbara Drinkwater, Ph.D., FACSM – The Female Athlete Triad and Her Contribution to Women’s Health by NiCole Keith, Ph.d., FACSM, from IUPUI; Rosemary Agostini, M.D., FACSM, from Kaiser Permanente Washington; Mimi Johnson, M.D., FACSM, from the University of Washington; Anne B. Loucks, Ph.D., FACSM, from Ohio University 

• Elsworth R. Buskirk Tutorial Lecture | Standing up for Sports Nutrition in the Age of Scienciness by Louise M. Burke, Ph.D., FACSM, from Australian Catholic University 

• President’s Lecture | Parks and Recreation: An Untapped Solution to Youth Obesity and Physical Activity Disparities by Sarah Armstrong, M.D., from Duke University 

• President’s Lecture | 50 Years: Sports Medicine Team Physician and the Anterior Cruciate Ligament by John Bergfeld, M.D., FACSM, from the Cleveland Clinic 

• President’s Lecture | Culture and Physical Activity of Adults: The Need to Intertwine the Two by David X. Marquez, Ph.D., FACSM, from the University of Illinois at Chicago 

• President’s Lecture | Effects of Exercise on Vascular Function: In Vivo and In Vitro Perspectives by Michael D. Brown, Ph.D., FACSM, from Auburn University 

• Exercise is Medicine®: Promoting Physical Activity for Older Adults in Pandemic Times by Michael Rogers, FACSM; Paige Denison 

• Utilizing the Outdoors to Get People Active | by Robert Zarr; Rebecca Battista, FACSM 

• Environmental Pollution, Climate Change and Human Health by Matthew Cramer; Michelle Trbovich; Lily Hospers; Stéphane Bermon; Mar Viana; Gemma Castaño-Vinyals; Paolo Adami 

• Cardiovascular Aging and Remodeling by John Quindry, FACSM; Gary Pierce; Jill Barnes, FACSM; Anthony Rosenzweig 

• Innovations in Training-Induced Neuroplasticity: What can we Learn for Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation? By Jochen Baumeister; Scott Bonnette; Nina Skjaeret-Maroni; Dustin Grooms 

• Preparing for a Safe Olympic and Paralympic Games During COVID-19 by Jonathan Finnoff, FACSM; Cheri Blauwet, FACSM; Margo Mountjoy, FACSM; Brian McClosky 

• Exercise-Drug Interaction: Metformin by Thomas Buford, FACSM; Benjamin Miller; Charlotte Peterson 

• Exercise during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Public Health, Health Care, and Exercise Science by Janet Fulton, FACSM; Deborah Galuska; Liz Joy, FACSM; Sarah Lee; James Sallis, FACSM 

• Emerging Issues in Physical Activity during the Early Years (0 to 5 yrs.) by Dianne Ward, FACSM; Anthony Okely; Russell Pate, FACSM; Erik Willis; Leah Robinson, FACSM; Sofiya Alhassan, FACSM 

• The Role of Diet in Athlete Bone Health by Craig Sale, FACSM; Louise Burke, FACSM; Daniel Owens; Wendy Kohrt, FACSM 

• Training Load Monitoring of Distance Runners: New Thoughts on an Old Problem by Max Paquette, FACSM; Irene Davis, FACSM; Trent Stellingwerff, FACSM; Olivier Girard 

• Black Lives Matter: Social Medicine for Sports Medicine Clinicians by Lisa Barkley, FACSM 

• The PaleoKetoVeganMacroFasting Diet: Stop the Madness! by Shawn Arent, FACSM