AMERICAN SOCIETY 
OF EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGISTS
Founded 1997

President’s Report
January 1999

Hello again and happy new year.  I am one of those realists who sticks to the truth that all the fanfare was a year too early, so I will not give a welcome to a new millenium and all that stuff!  Nevertheless, the new year brings another year of challenges and opportunities to the professionalization of exercise physiology.

There are many events underway, and I would like to inform you of them.

Committee Representatives and Functions
I have prepared a letter that is currently being mailed to all members that requests a re-dedication to committee membership and functions.  You will receive this letter very soon, and I encourage you all to either re-state your current committee involvement, change to different committee(s), or commence your involvement with ASEP at the committee level.

Licensure and Scope of Practice
You need to be aware that Tommy has posted procedures and related documents to the website that will be helpful to all those who want to develop their own state association and efforts towards licensure.  I am currently working on this effort for New Mexico, and I encourage those of you who do not have a state exercise physiology organization to develop one, affiliate with ASEP, and contribute to the need to develop a consistent nation-wide ASEP approved scope of practice or exercise physiologists.

We need to develop an active Licensure Committee to oversee such duties and the development of related documents.

JEPonline and PEPonline
I have been very busy with my editorial obligations to JEPonline.  Now that Darryn Willoughby and David Armstrong are hard at work with editorial and review functions, we are handling the increasing submissions far better.  Remember that ASEP has two journals, and that the Professionalization of Exercise physiology is the sole journal that publishes content on the professionalization of exercise physiology.

Third National Meeting
I have arranged for several inspections of hotels for the next annual meeting.  Sue-Ellen and I toured one of the Radisson Hotels in Albuquerque, and it appears to be excellent for our needs.  We have a few others to compare against, and we will have a final date and location by the end of February.

Per-Olof Astrand has returned a formal acceptance of the Key Note Address, as well as the first ASEP Lifetime Achievement Award in Exercise Physiology.  Thus, as of March 1, I will be mailing notification of the conference to as many exercise physiologists that we have a mailing list for.  In addition, several members have suggested we advertise Per-Olof’s presence at our meeting in respected research and professional journals/magazines as soon as possible.  If you have any other suggestions, please let me know.  I will be meeting with my National Meeting committee, consisting of UNM faculty and students, within two weeks to start formal planning.

Please make plans for abstract or talk submissions to our next meeting, which is tentatively scheduled for September 28-30, 2000.  I will accept any ideas for symposiums, professional topics, etc. at any time, so please contact me with suggestions.

Finally, on a personal note, Sharon broke her arm two days ago (2/3/00) rollerblading.  In her exuberance to think it was Spring, she bladed on a day when some ice and snow remained under a bridge, and you can picture the rest!  For those of you that know her, you may want to contact her to lift her spirits a little.

Take care.

Robert Robergs, Ph.D., FASEP
ASEP President