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