Dr. Lisa Cadmus-Bertram, assistant professor of Kinesiology; Epidemiology, recently presented at the 2019 UW Wellness Symposium. Her interactive workshop, “Exercise is Medicine:Steps to a Healthier, Happier You”, introduced attendees to the Exercise is Medicine initiative and presented information about the wellness benefits of even modest physical activity. Attendees identified their own personal barriers to increasing …
The Montoye-Nagle lecture series was established to honor the contributions to the Department of Kinesiology at UW-Madison by Professors Emeriti Henry Montoye and Francis J. Nagle. Henry Montoye was at UW-Madison from 1977 to 1989 and known for his research on the relationship between exercise & health. He served as the Chair …
A story out of the University of Georgia explains new research on sport-related concussions (SRC) that’s co-authored by Andrew Winterstein and Dee Warmath, a former faculty member at UW-Madison. Warmath and Winterstein’s study — which was published in the journal Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach — reveals that knowing how to report a concussion may be …
Congratulations to Dane Cook, PhD, for the recent cost-extension of his VA grant focusing on Gulf War Illness. In addition to being a Professor of Kinesiology, Dr. Cook is a Health Science Specialist at the Madison VA. He conducts research on the psychobiology of exercise, using exercise as a model to study both biological (e.g. …