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Dr. Eli Puterman on stress, aging, and physical activity
Speaking with Dr. Eli Puterman, School of Kinesiology researcher and professor of KIN 489 – Psychobiology of Physical Activity, it’s clear he has a real passion for his work. For some time now, he’s been seeking to understand how stress, aging, and exercise work together. “As I moved through my education, and learning that long-term psychological stress has a negative effect on our health, I became interested in the accumulated experiences of stress across the lifespan and how they may ‘get under the skin’, so to speak, to advance aging,” he says.
Dr. Michael Koehle on managing self doubt
Dr. Michael Koehle, Professor with the School of Kinesiology and Physician at the Allan McGavin Sports and Exercise Medicine Centre, is not one to boast about his personal or professional achievements. In fact, when we sat down to talk research and exercise, and how each informs the other, Mike was almost sheepish when asked to elaborate on these successes. “I don’t want to highlight any of my accomplishments,” he jokes, as we begin to get down to business.
2018 Class of the UBC Sports Hall of Fame—Three are KIN Alumni
The 2018 inductees include three KIN alumni Jean Forrest, Dale Ohman, and Michael “Mickey” McDowell; as well as Hash Kanjee.
KIN and viaSport receive funding to study disability inclusion
UBC KIN and viaSport jointly received nearly $200,000 in federal funding to study disability inclusion in physical activity.
UBC’s new home for sports medicine and exercise science opens
The Chan Gunn Pavilion, a new facility for the UBC faculty of medicine, will house physicians and physical therapists who treat about 3,500 patients a month.