Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Alex Dippold, Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No. 6   November 1, 1999

Health and Fitness Relationship Is Topic of Sports Medicine Meeting The relationship between physical activity and health will be the focus of presentations during an upcoming meeting of sports medicine professionals. Jack Wilmore, head of the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University, will deliver the keynote address, "The Role of Physical Activity in Health Promotion: Focus on Prevention of Overweight and Obesity," on Friday, November 5, at 8:00 p.m. in the Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall. His talk is free and open to the public. Wilmore’s lecture is one of several that will take place November 5–6 as part of the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic regional chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine. Other sessions will feature such topics as "Exercise and Sudden Death: Know the Risks," "Does Physical Activity Decrease the Risk of Breast Cancer?" and "Show Me the Money: Does Physical Activity Reduce Medical Costs?" Speakers will include representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and the Harvard University School of Public Health. The author of the books The Wilmore Fitness Program and Sensible Fitness and the coauthor of Physiology of Sport and Exercise and Health and Fitness through Physical Activity, Wilmore is a former executive director of the National Athletic Health Institute. He has won awards for contributions to his field from the Association for Employee Health and Fitness and the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. He has held leadership posts with such organizations as the American Heart Association and National Association of Sport and Physical Education, and he has served as a consultant to the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sport, California Highway Patrol, and Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, among others.