AMERICAN
SOCIETY
OF
EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGISTS
Founded
1997
President’s
Report
February 2000
As usual, there are many events underway
that you need to be aware of.
Committee Representatives
and Functions
If you have not received the committee
letter that was mailed late last month, it should be arriving to you very
soon. Remember to either re-state your current committee involvement, change
to different committee(s), or commence your involvement with ASEP at the
committee level. The committee contributions of ASEP are vital to
ASEP’s growth and service to all exercise physiologists, so please give
this issue sincere thought.
JEPonline
and PEPonline
The April 2000 issue is building into
the largest issue yet. In addition, continued submissions indicate
that many exercise physiologists regard JEPonline
as a suitable format for research publication. This month I will
inquire as to the procedures needed for JEPonline
to be included into web-based Med-line searches, as this feature will further
improve submissions and the general respect given to the journal.
Third National Meeting
The location for the 3rd Annual National
Meeting is almost final. This task has kept me busy during February.
The location will most likely be the Marriott Hotel, as this site provides
excellent facilities at a very reasonable cost. Furthermore, based
on participant feedback from last year, there are numerous restaurant and
entertainment locations within walking distance.
Per-Olof Astrand has returned a black and
white photograph, which I am using to develop a promotional page for his
presence and honored roles at the meeting. As I requested last month,
if you have any suggestions for additional advertising of the meeting,
please let me know. Once the hotel location is final (by March 11),
I will meet with my National Meeting committee, consisting of UNM faculty
and students, to start formal planning and meeting promotion.
Please make plans for abstract or talk
submissions to our next meeting, which is tentatively scheduled for September
28-30, 2000. I am planning to have more “hands-on experience” sessions,
consisting of workshops (body composition, scope of practice, site visit
and special session on clinical exercise physiology), and have room for
one or two more 30 min presentations. I am realizing that the uniqueness
of the ASEP meeting does not lie in research, but in all the professional
functions and activities that no other meeting (national and regional ACSM,
FASEB, ADA, NSCA, etc.) provides. That is not to say that research
dissemination is not important. However, there is so much opportunity
to have our national meeting support the skill development and maintenance
of exercise physiologists, provide up-to-date information sessions based
on the last year of published research, and allow for member voices to
be heard on all professional issues within exercise physiology.
Take care.
Robert Robergs, Ph.D., FASEP
