How Physical Activity Affects Health

Southwestern Vermont Health Care's Medical Matters Weekly

Season 2 | Episode 34 | August 24, 2022
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 countless national publications, including The New York Times, “O” The Oprah Magazine, Men’s Health & Fitness, and Shape Magazine, is the guest on Medical Matters Weekly on Wednesday, August 24.
Dr. 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.
Dr. 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.
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Underwriter: Mack Molding