Join Dr. Rob Boushel, director of UBC Vancouver’s School of Kinesiology and Dr. Rob Shave, director of UBCO’s School of Health and Exercise Sciences in a weekly webinar on Friday afternoons from 3:00pm-4:30pm. The series will run May through June.
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The first webinar is on Friday, May 8th on Zoom, when Dr. Robert Shave presents – “Has the human heart been selected for endurance training?”
Dr. Robert Shave’s research examines the acute and chronic effects of exercise and/or environmental stress upon the heart.
Using echocardiography and biomarkers Dr. Shave and his colleagues have provided insight into the beneficial and potentially negative effects of endurance exercise upon the heart, the influence of exercise on cardiac remodeling and the ventricular mechanics that underpin cardiac function in health and disease.
Recently, Dr. Shave established the International Primate Heart Project to examine heart disease in great apes and to provide insight into the evolution of the human heart. Dr. Shave’s work will continue to combine comparative and experimental physiology approaches to further understand structural and functional cardiovascular adaptations to exercise in a range of populations with a specific focus on human evolution and the potential of cardiovascular mismatch disease.
There will be a Q&A session moderated by professors Chris McNeil for UBCO-based talks and Jean-Sébastien Blouin for UBCV-based talks.
Details:
Friday, May 8, 2020
3:00pm – 4:30pm
All Welcome – Free admission
To join the Zoom Webinar: Click Here
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Please Note:
- All attendees are asked to mute their microphones and turn off their cameras for the duration of the webinar.
- We ask that all questions be sent to the webinar session’s chair via the confidential chat function in Zoom.