Event Details
Title: Gait Health, Sports Psychology and Physical Activity for Older Adults & Athletes
Presenters:
Wren Burton, DC, MPH: “Gait as a measure of whole-person health in individuals with chronic pain”
James Doorley, PhD: “Merging the Mind and Body in Sports Medicine: Integrative approaches to Olympic athlete pain and injury”
Dennis Muñoz-Vergara, DVM, MS, MPH: “Pre-pandemic Physical Activity and Risk of COVID-19 Diagnosis and Hospitalization in Older Adults.”
Date: Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
Time: 8:00 am EST
Location: 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: coming soon
Speaker Bios:
Wren Burton, DC, MPH is an Evidence-based clinician researcher with a Master’s in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She specializes in gait health and fall prevention and is committed to expanding research on non-pharmacological approaches to chronic pain. Dr. Burton is an alumna of Palmer College of Chiropractic’s West Campus, with a Doctor of Chiropractic degree, and a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science from the University of New England.
James Doorley, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified mental performance consultant through the Association of Applied Sport Psychology. He is a full-time psychological services provider in the Sports Medicine division of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. He has provided clinical and performance psychology services for Massachusetts General Hospital’s Sport Psychology Program, Northeastern University, The Boston Ballet, the United States Naval Academy, George Mason University, the Inova Sports Medicine Concussion Program, and the New England Revolution (Major League Soccer). He is currently a research fellow in integrative medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dennis Muñoz-Vergara, DVM, MS, MPH is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a mind-body movement therapies (MBMT) researcher. He is also a yoga instructor, a practice he has cultivated since he was pursuing a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree specializing in Animal Pathology in southern Chile. In 2016, he pursued a postdoctoral opportunity at Harvard Medical School (HMS), within the Osher Center’s Connective Tissue Laboratory. His research focuses on the effect of body stretching in acute and chronic myofascial inflammation. In 2017, he successfully applied to the NCCIH-funded T32 program (HMS Research Fellowship in Integrative Medicine). During this fellowship, he completed a program in Clinical Effectiveness and obtained an MPH degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His current research involves a translational pilot RCT examining the systemic inflammatory impact of a single bout of yogic exercise among yoga-naïve and sedentary adults. His long-term goal is to develop a clinical model for studying the intersection between the immune and myofascial systems and the benefits of yoga for health and disease. He loves to cook and dance with his husband, family, and friends. He also cultivates his writings of poetry and short stories with a group of Chilean writers and associates.
