Event Details
Title: “Meditative Movement in COPD: Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Physical Activity Promotion”
Presenter: Marilyn Moy, MD, MSc
Medical Director, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program, VA Boston Healthcare System;
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 7 @ 8:00-9:00am US ET via Zoom.
Cost: Free. CME credit available. Please email your name, degree title and institution if applicable to [email protected] during the event to claim credit.
Presentation Description
Goals/Learning objectives of presentation:
1. Understand the key roles of Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Physical Activity Promotion in the management of patients with COPD
2. Examine the evidence for the role of mindfulness movement modalities such as Tai Chi in Pulmonary Rehabilitation
3. Explore the potential role of mindfulness movement modalities such as Tai Chi on Physical Activity Promotion
Speaker Bio
Marilyn L. Moy, M.D., M.Sc., Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, is a Staff Pulmonary Physician at VA Boston Healthcare System. She is Medical Director of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program, accredited by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Dr. Moy studies the role of physical activity (PA) in the risk stratification of COPD, technology-based interventions to promote PA, and the biological mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of PA on COPD outcomes. Her work has contributed to the field of telehealth medicine and digital healthcare solutions.
Dr. Moy is internationally recognized as an expert in Pulmonary Rehabilitation. She was the 2016-2017 Chair of the Program Committee of the Rehabilitation Assembly of the American Thoracic Society. She has been an invited speaker at the European Respiratory Congress in Munich, Germany and Amsterdam, Holland. She served on the Research Advocacy Committee of the ATS.
As the Principal Investigator on VA and NIH funded grants, Dr. Moy published one of the first papers demonstrating that low PA is associated with increased risk for acute exacerbations in COPD. Dr. Moy has developed a novel internet-mediated, pedometer-based intervention to promote PA in COPD. Her work was recognized with the 2017 Massachusetts Pulmonary Section award for best clinical research abstract. Dr. Moy also examines biological mechanisms including the relationship between PA and telomere length, and the epigenetic changes associated with improvements in PA. Dr. Moy was VA Boston’s 2017 nominee for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Dr. Moy was salutatorian at Boston Latin School and graduated magna cum laude in Biology from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. She earned an MD from Harvard Medical School and a Masters of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Resources
Managing the experience of breathlessness with Tai Chi: A qualitative analysis from a randomized controlled trial in COPD.
Gilliam EA, Kilgore KL, Liu Y, Bernier L, Criscitiello S, Litrownik D, Wayne PM, Moy ML, Yeh GY.Respir Med. 2021 Aug;184:106463.
Long-term Exercise After Pulmonary Rehabilitation (LEAP): a pilot randomised controlled trial of Tai Chi in COPD.
Moy ML, Wayne PM, Litrownik D, Beach D, Klings ES, Davis RB, Pinheiro A, Yeh GY.ERJ Open Res. 2021 Jul 12;7(3):00025-2021.
Exploring Tai Chi Exercise and Mind-Body Breathing in Patients with COPD in a Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial.
Kraemer KM, Litrownik D, Moy ML, Wayne PM, Beach D, Klings ES, Reyes Nieva H, Pinheiro A, Davis RB, Yeh GY.COPD. 2021 Jun;18(3):288-298.
Litrownik D, Gilliam EA, Wayne PM, Richardson CR, Kadri R, Rist PM, Moy ML, Yeh GY.JMIR Res Protoc. 2021 Apr 29;10(4):e27826.
Gilliam EA, Cheung T, Kraemer K, Litrownik D, Wayne PM, Moy ML, Yeh GY.PLoS One. 2021 Apr 8;16(4):e0249263.
BEAM study (Breathing, Education, Awareness, Movement): a randomised controlled feasibility trial of tai chi exercise in patients with COPD.
Yeh GY, Litrownik D, Wayne PM, Beach D, Klings ES, Reyes Nieva H, Pinheiro A, Davis RB, Moy ML.BMJ Open Respir Res. 2020 Nov;7(1):e000697.
Long-term Exercise After Pulmonary Rehabilitation (LEAP): Design and rationale of a randomized controlled trial of Tai Chi.
Moy ML, Wayne PM, Litrownik D, Beach D, Klings ES, Davis RB, Yeh GY.Contemp Clin Trials. 2015 Nov;45(Pt B):458-467.
Tai chi mind-body exercise in patients with COPD: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
Yeh GY, Wayne PM, Litrownik D, Roberts DH, Davis RB, Moy ML.Trials. 2014 Aug 28;15:337.