AMERICAN SOCIETY
OF EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGISTS
Founded, 1997

President’s Report
July, 1999



I hope that the summer is progressing well for all of you.  As you will read below, there have been numerous accomplishments within ASEP that I would like to inform you about.

1999 Annual Meeting
I have received 15 research abstract submissions, and still require abstracts from the invited speakers.  The hotel has already confirmed several room reservations.  However, meeting registration applications have been slow.  I assume that potential attendees are waiting for the Fall semester to access travel money.  Nevertheless, I encourage all those who will attend the meeting to register as soon as possible so that we can organize the seating, meals, and audiovisual necessities.

I anticipate a completed meeting schedule by September 1.  At that time I will mail copies and additional information in registration packets to registered attendees.  We will also post the final schedule to the ASEP website.

Journal of Exercise Physiologyonline
There have been many submissions over the summer.  However, I am having difficulty with the duration of the reviews during these summer months.  This is to be expected, and I request that all corresponding authors have some patience at this time.  The October issue is shaping up to be a large issue, as will be the January 2000 issue which will include manuscripts from the ASEP Procedures Recommendations that will be presented at this years meeting.

Letters to Other Organizations
At last we (Tommy and I) had the phone conference with officials from ACSM (James Whitehead and Barry Franklin).  This meeting has taken almost 3 years to occur.  The content of the meeting was very biased around the needs of ACSM to better understand why ASEP exists, and what the needs of exercise physiologists are.  I have written a response letter that summarizes the meeting, and it has been mailed to all participants. The ASEP Board of Directors has some discomfort in the fact that ACSM has still not officially recognized ASEP, or indicated in any way that they support our initiatives.  I have requested to Tommy that he link the letter to this report.  In this letter I provide a detailed summary, and indicate to ACSM that if we are to work together in a mutually respectful climate, then they need to recognize that ASEP exists and ACSM should support our efforts and not compete with them.

Now that the meeting with ACSM has occurred, with little direction as to how they want to interact with ASEP, it is important to communicate with other organizations.  I will be writing to AACVPR, ADA, and APTA this month to start dialogue with them and attempt to coordinate a formal interaction.

Indiana is the First ASEP State Chapter
The Indiana Association of Exercise Physiologists (IAEP) unanimously agreed to sign documents to officially become affiliated with ASEP.  The IAEP has identified that ASEP will be their national organization, and agreed to coordinate their efforts through ASEP for licensure and all other issues pertaining to professionalizing exercise physiology.  This is a monumental achievement for each of ASEP and IAEP.  For the first time in the US there is a state exercise physiology organization that is functioning under a national professional organization to improve the professional status of exercise physiologists.  Plans are underway to invite as many state exercise physiology organizations as possible to be state chapters of ASEP.

I will be scheduling a special meeting at the ASEP national meeting for discussion on formation of a new ASEP State Chapter Committee, and future directions for how this committee should function.  I suggest that if you are interested in participating on a committee that serves state chapter interests, you should plan on attending this special session.

That is all for July.  I hope to see you in October.

Robert Robergs, Ph.D., FASEP
President - ASEP
 


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