Medical Matters Weekly Welcomes Exercise Scientist
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BENNINGTON, Vt. — The next guest on Medical Matters Weekly is Kathleen Martin Ginis, PhD, a leading exercise behavioral scientist who has been the principal investigator on more than $11 million in exercise psychology research and a source for national publications, including The New York Times, “O” The Oprah Magazine, Men’s Health & Fitness, and Shape Magazine, among others.
The show airs on Facebook Live at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 24. It is produced by Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) with cooperation from Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV).
Martin Ginis is the Reichwald Family University of British Columbia Southern Medical Program chair in Preventive Medicine. She has also researched and taught within the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University and was the founding director of SCI Action Canada, a national alliance of community-based organizations and university-based researchers working together to advance physical activity participation in people living with spinal cord injury. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Canadian Disability Participation Project.
Martin Ginis has more than 20 years of experience researching, teaching, and presenting on topics related to motivation, behavior change, and the psychological benefits of exercise. She has published over 300 peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters. Dr. Martin Ginis completed a bachelor’s in psychology at the University of Toronto, her PhD in kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and postdoctoral training at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
Viewers can watch the show at facebook.com/svmedicalcenter and facebook.com/CATTVBennington.The show is also available to view or download as a podcast on svhealthcare.org/
Medical Matters Weekly addresses all aspects of creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle for all, including food and nutrition, housing, diversity and inclusion, groundbreaking medical care, exercise, mental health, the environment, research, and government. The show is broadcast on Facebook Live, YouTube, and all podcast platforms.
After the program, the video is available on area public access television stations CAT-TV (Comcast channel 1075) and GNAT-TV's (Comcast channel 1074), as well as on public access stations throughout the United States.
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