PAEL, Gao presenting several studies at ACSM Annual Meeting

ACSM_logoZan Gao, Ph.D., Kinesiology associate professor and director of the Physical Activity and Epidemiology Laboratory (PAEL), and members of his lab will be presenting at the American College of Sport Medicine (ACSM) Annual Meeting and Exercise is Medicine World Congress held jointly in Boston, MA, this week through June 4. PAEL’s papers accepted for presentation and School of Kinesiology presenters are:

At ACSM:

  • Trajectory changes of children’s energy expenditure and physical activity: The effect of physical activity regiment. (Gao and June Lee, Kinesiology doctoral candidate)
  • Dynamic relationship among elementary school children’s psychosocial beliefs, outside school physical activity and screen time. (Gao and Lee)
  •  Effects of exergaming on college students’ energy expenditure, physical activity and enjoyment. (Zachary Pope, Kinesiology doctoral student, Lee, X. Li, visiting scholar, and Gao)
  • College students’ situational motivation, energy expenditure, and blood pressure in exergaming and treadmill walking (Nan Zeng, visiting doctoral student, Pope, Lee, Li, and Gao)
 At Exercise Is Medicine World Congress:
  • A meta-analysis of effects of exergaming on individuals’ rehabilitation. (Pope, Zeng, and Gao )