Just the Facts Please: An Exercise in Achieving Optimal Health
McMaster Innovation Park
06/12/2017, 7:00 pm - TO 06/12/2017 - 10:00 pm
A free science communication event for the general public focused on exercise and health, featuring McMaster researchers and high-profile journalists and authors
Wednesday, December 6, 7 – 10 p.m.
McMaster Innovation Park
175 Longwood Rd S #105, Hamilton, ON
Moderator:
Steve Buist, Reporter, Hamilton Spectator
Speakers:
Tim Caulfield, Professor, University of Alberta
Martin Gibala, Professor, McMaster
Jennifer Heisz, Assistant Professor, McMaster
Stuart Phillips, Professor, McMaster
Andre Picard, Health Reporter and Columnist, The Globe and Mail Gretchen Reynolds, Writer and Phys Ed Columnist, The New York Times
Event Overview:
7:00 Welcome and Overview (S Buist)
7:05 Junk Science and How to Spot It (T Caulfield)
7:25 Exercise & Cardiovascular Health: Making Every Minute Count (M Gibala)
7:35 Exercise & Musculoskeletal Health: The Unique Benefits of Strength Training (S Phillips) 7:45 Exercise & Brain Health: Preventing Cognitive Decline (J Heisz)
7:55 Lessons for Personal Health: How to Move Better and Live Longer (G Reynolds)
8:15 Lessons for Public Health: The Exercise Prescription (A Picard)
8:35 Break
8:50 Roundtable discussion and moderated audience Q&A
9:30 Reception with light refreshments and opportunity for speaker 1-on-1
