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Prof. Stuart Biddle
Professor of Physical Activity & Health
Loughborough University, UK |
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Move more and sit less: How do we plan and evaluate behaviour change interventions?
Former President of International Society for Behavioural Nutritional and Physical Activity. Former Chair of the Cross Government Obesity Unit Expert Group: Sedentary Behaviour and Obesity. Leicester-Loughborough Lifestyle Biomedical Research Unit and School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, Loughborough University. Research focuses on psychological and behavioural aspects of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health, including mental health. |
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Prof. Tom Baranowski
Professor of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine |
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Video Games for Promoting Physical Activity among Children: Alternative Approaches
Founding President of the International Society of Behavioural Nutrition and Physical Activity. Research focuses on behavioural nutrition with children. Author or co-author of over 290 peer-reviewed articles and 18 book chapters, and editor of four special volumes. Editorial advisory board member of 11 professional journals. |
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Prof. Julien S. Baker
Director of the Institute of Clinical and Health Sciences
University of the West of Scotland |
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High Intensity Exercise in the Management of Cardiovascular Disease, Health and Fitness
Former Director of the Welsh Institution of Sport Health & Exercise Sciences. Editorial Board Member of UK and International Journals. Fellow of the Royal Scociety of Medicine, Human Biology Association and the Institute of Biology. Chartered Biologist and Chartered Scientist. The 2008 Holder of the International Investigator Award by the American Society of Exercise Physiologists. Author or co-author of over 170 peer reviewed articles and 230 published abstracts. Research interests in high intensity exercise, immune function and hormonal control of exercise, cardiovascular disease in children / ethnic minorities, oxidative stress and muscle damage, steroid abuse and exercise biochemistry. |
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Prof. Keith George
Professor of Exercise and Cardiovascular Physiology, Head of Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University |
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Acute and Chronic Exercise and the Adolescent Heart
Professor of Exercise and Cardiovascular Physiology. Head of the Research Institution for Sport and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University. Research interests in the impact of acute and chronic exercise upon cardiac structure and function, the study of vascular health, cardiac health and disease, physiology and research methods (modelling). |
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Dr. Aiden Doherty
Marie Curie Research Fellow
University of Oxford, UK |
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Intersecting Wearable Sensing and Behavioural Public Health Research
Marie Curie research fellow in the University of Oxford at the British Heart Foundation Research Group. Research focuses on in the suitability of state-of-art visual and sensor data information management techniques, multimedia indexing & searching, and sports & personal health applications. Affiliated with the CLARITY research centre in Ireland. Spent time with Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, USA. Author of 35 peer reviewed publications. Released the source code of a lifelogging browsing system, which has already had over 900 downloads by other researchers in the field. |
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Dr. Simon J. Marshall
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
University of California, San Diego, USA |
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New Technology and Children's Physical Activity: Friend or Foe?
Associate Professor in the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems, at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Served as principal investigator or co-investigator on >$25million in research grants designed to measure or increase levels of physical activity and exercise among children and adults. Author of over 60 peer reviewed articles and book chapters in the area of sedentary behaviour and physical activity. Research focuses on using wireless technologies to increase physical activity and exercise, and community-based interventions to increase physical activity of underserved and vulnerable populations. |
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Prof. Gareth Stratton
Professor of Paediatric Exercise Science
Swansea University, UK |
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Active Video Games & Children Physical Activity, Health and Sedentary Behaviour
Founder of the Research into Exercise Activity and Children's Health (REACH) Group (www.thereachgroup.co.uk) and Chair of the Sports Technology Exercise and Medicine Research Centre at Swansea University. Chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) that published physical activity guidelines for children and young people. Research focuses on designing children's physical activity interventions that span both community and laboratory. Widely published in the paediatric exercise scientific literature. |
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Prof. Frank H.K. Fu
Associate Vice-President, Chair Professor, Department of Physical Education
Director, Dr. Stephen Hui Research Centre for Physical Recreation and Wellness
Hong Kong Baptist University President of the Society of Chinese Scholars on Exercise Physiology and Fitness
Chairman of Hong Kong Coach Education Committee
Hong Kong Anti-Doping Committee and
Elite Sport Committee |
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Local researches on health fitness
Published over 100 journal articles and over 15 textbooks. Being appointed the Justice of Peace in 2004. Awarded the Medal of Honour by the SAR Government of Hong Kong in 2009. He has given lectures and presentations all over the world including Europe, Asia, USA, Canada, Australia, Latin America and the Middle East. He is presently an International Fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, a Fellow of the Research Consortium of the AAHPERD, and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Recreation Management Association. |