Exercise Is not Medicine if It Is not Implemented into Healthcare System - Dr. Mary Kennedy (Pt1) - Practitioner's Viewpoint Series

Dr. Mary Kennedy is a physical activity and nutrition specialist, researcher, author and coach.

Dr. Kennedy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Nutrition Research at Edith Cowan University. Her research focus is integrating exercise and nutrition into standard healthcare practice. In her doctoral research she has been studying the implementation barriers to integrating exercise as medicine in oncology.

She is also passionate about coaching people to run marathons.

She has served as a technical assistant for the scientific committee responsible for the creation of the 2008 National Physical Activity Guidelines. Additionally, she has served on the American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) Exercise is Medicine Education Committee and is currently the Physical Activity Advisor for the American Institute of Cancer Research. In addition to her national level policy work, Mary is a physical activity and nutrition researcher and consultant.

 

The links to the ACSM exercise oncology program directory and the current exercise guidelines are below:

Directory: https://www.exerciseismedicine.org/cancer_exercise.php

Guidelines: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2019/11000/Exercise_Guidelines_for_Cancer_Survivors_.23.aspx

 

 

This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring

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