Exercise Is Medicine

Exercise Is Medicine:
Understanding the Health Benefits of Physical Activity

Robert Sallis, MD, founder & chair of Exercise is Medicine
Date: Monday, February 22, 2010

Event 1: DuVal Auditorium, University Medical Center, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.,
11:00 - 11:45 am
Event 2: Grand Opening Ceremonies, Student Recreation Center Expansion, 1400 East 6^th St., 12:30 pm

Dr. Robert Sallis has been selected to give the Spring 2010 Well U Lecture, Exercise Is Medicine: Understanding the Health Benefits of Physical Activity, on February 22, 2010 at 11:00 am in DuVal Auditorium in the University Medical Center. Dr. Sallis is the founder and chair of Exercise Is Medicine, an international initiative to make physical activity and exercise a standard part of the disease prevention and treatment paradigm in the United States.

In response to the nation’s health crisis, the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Medical Association launched the Exercise is Medicine program with the support of many other prestigious organizations. The Exercise Is Medicine website calls on physicians to assess and review every patient’s physical activity at every visit. The program reaches out to all health providers as well as the public and has developed effective tools for using exercise as a ‘medicine’ to help prevent or manage many of the most common chronic health conditions.

Dr. Sallis is Co-Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship and is on the Administrative Faculty of the Family Medicine Residency Program at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, CA, where he also serves as research chairman. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the UCR/UCLA Biomedical Sciences Program and the head team physician at Pomona College. Dr. Sallis is a fellow of both the American Academy of Family Practice (AAFP) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and a Past-President of ACSM.

Dr. Sallis will also be the featured speaker at the Grand Opening of the new Student Recreation Center Expansion. Grand Opening ceremonies and festivities will take place in the Student Recreation Center on February 22nd from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.

This event is sponsored by the UA Well University Partnership, Campus Health, Coca-Cola and many others.