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Spring Conferences

"Navigating Cutting-Edge Technologies in

Health, Sports, and Exercise Science:

Opportunities and Implications"

Spring 2024 Virtual Conference

Friday, April 5, 2024

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET

Conference Description

The New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine's 2024 Virtual Spring Conference will be held on Friday, April 5, 2024. The meeting is entitled “Navigating Cutting-Edge Technologies in Health, Sports, and Exercise Science: Opportunities and Implications” and will be available via live virtual format. The content will feature four invited speaker presentations, robust Q&A, plus an audience discussion with the panel of speakers. Join us to explore trends in wearable technology, AI, and data analytics, and their potential impact on the future of healthcare, sports, and exercise science and sports medicine. 

Speakers will present on a variety of emerging technologies and their usage in clinics, classrooms, research labs, personal training studios, and on the sports field. Presenters will delve into how these technologies can enhance our work, and their implications for privacy, data security, data veracity, and ethics. Program content is intended for exercise practitioners, researchers, faculty, students, and clinicians.

ACSM CECs TBD

Objectives:

1. Identify and describe key wearable technologies used in sports science, including fitness trackers, sensors, and physiological monitoring devices. 

2. Understand the role of AI in exercise program design and its possible applications to analyze performance data, identify patterns, and provide actionable insights for athletes and coaches. 

3. Identify implementation challenges in the research laboratory, the clinical setting, the classroom, and the field.

4. Articulate the benefits and drawbacks of integrating emerging technology in the health, sports, exercise and sports medicine fields. 

5. Discuss the ethical implications and data privacy challenges associated with collecting and analyzing personal and sensitive athlete/patient/client data through wearable devices and data analytics.

Invited speakers:

Dr. Lindsay Baker, Gatorade Sports Science Institute

Dr. Erin Nitschke, Laramee Community College

Dr. Elaine Lee, University of Connecticut

Dr. Amy Welch, Norwich University

Sponsor the Spring Conference!

NEACSM offers many opportunities for sponsorship throughout the year. These opportunities provide significant exposure to help market organizations' products and services within and beyond the NEACSM chapter. For the one-day virtual spring conference, we have two levels: Conference Partner and General Sponsor. For more information and to sponsor our conference, contact Sponsorship Committee co-chairs Dr. Cassandra Forsythe at cassandraf@ccsu.edu and Dr. Mark Hartman at mark_hartman@uri.edu

Spring Conference Partners

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General Sponsors

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Previous Spring Conferences

2023 Spring Conference: Bite-Sized Sessions in Movement Science - April 21, 2023 

Virtual Conference

Description:

The New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine's Virtual Spring Conference was held on Friday, April 21, 2023. The single day meeting was entitled “Bite-Sized Sessions in Movement Science” and was available via live virtual format. The content was arranged by a collection of short tutorials, followed by rapid-fire sessions delivered by both students and professionals.

3.5 ACSM CECs 

Objectives

1. Explore current research in the fields of exercise science, sports nutrition, and sports medicine.

2. Appreciate unique considerations and characteristics that influence physical performance and recovery.

3. Identify best practices in optimizing physical performance and recovery.

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2022 Spring Conference: Beyond FITT: Unique Considerations to Optimize Exercise Prescription - April 8, 2022 

Virtual Conference

Description:

This single-day conference offered attendees an opportunity to learn from applied presentations, which explored unique approaches to help inform exercise prescription. The conference was delivered in a live virtual format and content was arranged in a manner that progresses from preparation, evaluation, application, and recovery. Program content is intended for exercise professionals, faculty, researchers, and students. 

 

4 ACSM CECs 

Speakers included Paul Mathew, Jeff Breckon, Kathleen Mellano, Chee-Hoi Leong, M. Jay Polsgrove, Hunter Bennett, Bruce Brazeal, Michelle Boland, and Eric D'Agati.

Objectives

1. Discuss psychological practices for enhancing exercise. 

2. Apply assessment outcomes to program design.

3. Identify best practices in optimizing movement and recovery.  

4. Explore current research in the field of exercise science and sports medicine.

5. Provide an opportunity for extensive professional dialogue.

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2021 Spring Conference: Managing Physical Activity in the New Normal - April 23, 2021 

Virtual Conference

Description:

This single-day conference focused on the negative effects of physical inactivity on health and how they relate to a rapidly changing work, research, and learning environment. Evidence-based methods and best practices were discussed to assist the Exercise Professional with combating physical inactivity, developing virtual and workplace wellness programming, and navigating research and education during the pandemic era and beyond. Program content is intended for exercise professionals, faculty, researchers, and students. 

 

4 ACSM CECs 

Speakers included Marc Hamilton, Daniel Freidenreich, Pedro Saint-Maurice, Amanda Zaleski, Talya Williams, Brad Roy, Jaci VanHeest, Melanna Cox, Christie Ward-Ritacco, Melissa Bopp, and Renee Rogers.

Objectives

1. Identify the negative effects of physical inactivity on health and physiology.  

2. Describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic regarding new challenges in quantifying physical inactivity in research. 

3. Discuss workplace wellness strategies in the new normal and best practices.  

4. Provide tips and recommendations for students and faculty advisors regarding navigation of academic studies during these current times. 

5. Identify methods and best practices for virtual or telehealth services that apply to exercise professionals. 

6. Discuss virtual behavior modification strategies for the exercise professional and researcher.

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CANCELLED: 2020 Spring Conference: Sex & Gender in Sports & Medicine, originally scheduled for March 27, 2020 

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Description:

The New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell Physical Therapy and Kinesiology Department invite you to the Spring Conference. This year's program focuses on how sex and gender affect responses to exercise and nutrition interventions, disease and injury risk, biomechanics of running, and exercise performance.

 

5 ACSM CECs 

Speakers include Abbie E. Smith-Ryan, PhD, CSC*D, FACSM, FNSCA, FISSN; Sarah Witkowski, PhD, FACSM; Joanna Harper, MS; Adam Tenforde, MD; and Irene Davis, PhD, PT, FACSM, FAPTA, FASB.

Objectives

1. Explore the modifying effect of sex on exercise and nutrition outcomes, including body composition, aerobic and anaerobic capacities, and disease risk. 

2. Appreciate the differences between men and women in the role exercise plays in cardiovascular disease risk and cardiovascular health.

3. Learn about the controversy of transgender and intersex athlete inclusion in sport, current policy, endocrinology, and physical performance characteristics. 

4. Compare the hormonal, nutritional, body composition, and exercise participation factors that affect risk for bone stress injuries in male and female athletes.

5. Evaluate gait mechanics that predispose male and female runners to injury and the ability of gait retraining to reduce risk.

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2019 Spring Conference: Only the Strong - Brain Versus Brawn, April 26, 2019

Central Connecticut State University

Description:

The New England Chapter of the American College of Sport Medicine (NEACSM), in collaboration with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). Learn from nationally and internationally recognized researchers, content experts, and strength & conditioning professionals as they present and discuss various topics relating strength to cognitive function, endurance performance, muscle hypertrophy, mental toughness, and leadership which can be practically applied to strength athletes, academic students, as well as the general population. The curriculum is developed to appeal to NEACSM and NSCA members as well as any student or professional who practices in exercise science, nutrition, strength & conditioning, and other allied health fields.

5 ACSM CECs/0.5 NSCA CEUs

Speakers include Avery Faigenbaum, EdD, FACSM, FNSCA; Alex Hutchinson, PhD; Matthew Nein, CSCS, RSCC*D; Jay Merlino, MS, CSCS, USAW; and Brad Schoenfeld, PhD, CSCS, CSPS, FNSCA.

Objectives:

1. Understand how strength influences and relates to cognitive function and academic performance. 

2. Explore the interplay between the brain and the body and their relationship to limiting human performance from a 100-m sprint to the marathon.

3. Identify strategies to assess and develop mental toughness as well as apply it to your training and coaching.

4. Understand how to utilize effective leadership strategies from the perspectives of sports coaching, strength and conditioning, and the military.

5. Identify a multitude of training strategies to maximize skeletal muscle hypertrophy by manipulating resistance training variables.

2018 Spring Conference: EAT, LIFT, BUILD: Nutrition Strategies for the Strength Athlete, April 20, 2018

Description:

The New England Chapter of the American College of Sport Medicine (NEACSM), in collaboration with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), proudly presents EAT, LIFT, BUILD: Nutrition Strategies for the Strength Athlete. Learn from nationally and internationally recognized researchers, content experts, and medical professionals as they present and discuss various nutritional strategies and their practical application for strength athletes. The curriculum is developed to appeal to NEACSM and NSCA members as well as any student or professional who practices in exercise science, nutrition, strength and conditioning, and other allied health fields.

Speakers include Adam Feit, MS, CSCS, *D, RSCC; Stuart M. Phillips, PhD; Eric S. Rawson, PhD, FACSM, CSCS; Marie A. Spano, MS, RD, CSCS, CSSD; Nancy Rodriguez, PhD, RD, CSSD, FACSM; and Darryn S. Willoughby, PhD, CSCS, FACSM.

Objectives: 

1. Understand how protein supports muscle health across the life span of strength athletes.

2. Understand the effectiveness, mechanisms of action, strategies for use, and safety of numerous sport supplements for increasing muscle mass and decreasing body fat.

3. Delineate myths versus scientific evidence of creatine supplementation for increasing muscle mass and strength in athletes.

4. Identify the key nutrients to be ingested before, during, and after resistance training and understand the strategy of nutrient timing for performance and adaptation maximization.

5. Recognize the nutrition strategies and understand the unique techniques that are implemented by sport dietitians for college and professional level strength athletes.

 

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