Top Experts in Exercise Research

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Nov. 11, 2013 - PRLog -- To kick off our series of weekly announcements to emphasize the ‘health’ component of healthcare(rather than disease), Expertscape.com is pleased to begin by highlighting world leadership in exercise research. Given the increasing challenges that many countries face with obesity, with diet, with an accelerating diabetes epidemic and with myriad other health issues, we thought it would be interesting and informative to recognize those individuals and centers that have shown leadership in the science of understanding the importance and impact of exercise on the human body. In weekends to come, look for announcements that focus on specific areas of exercise.

Expertscape.com would like to recognize these five individual experts and five institutions (http://www.expertscape.com/leaders/exercise) for demonstrating particular expertise and endeavor in the field of exercise research:

Leading Experts – Exercise

1.     Dr. Steven Blair - University of South Carolina

2.     Dr. Adrian Bauman - University of Sydney

3.     Dr. Paul Thompson - Hartford Hospital, Connecticut

4.     Dr. Timothy Noakes - University of Cape Town

5.     Dr. James Sallis - University of California, San Diego

Leading Institutions – Exercise

1.     University of Copenhagen - Denmark

2.     University of Sydney - Australia

3.     Karolinska Institutions - Sweden

4.     University of British Columbia - Canada

5.     McMaster University - Canada

To view Expertscape’s comprehensive results for exercise research covering hundreds of institutions and thousands of specialists worldwide, visit http://expertscape.com/ex/exercise.

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