A Walk a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific
Lifestyle Medicine Guest Lecturer
A Walk a Day
Keeps the
Doctor Away
David Nieman, DrPH
This lecture will focus on the
Professor, College of Health Sciences,
Appalachian State University
influence of regular physical
Director of the Human Performance Lab,
North Carolina Research Campus, Kannapolis, NC
activity in reducing incidence
rates for the common cold, and
how exercise helps the immune
Dr. David Nieman is a professor of health and exercise science at
Appalachian State University, and director of the Human
Performance Lab at the North Carolina Research Campus in
Kannapolis, NC. Dr. Nieman is a pioneer in the research area of
exercise immunology and helped establish that regular moderate
exercise lowers upper respiratory tract infection rates while
improving immunosurveillance, and that heavy exertion increases
infection rates while causing immune dysfunction.
May 7, 2015
A Walk a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Location: WesternU Lebanon, Lecture Hall 1
Streamed to WesternU Pomona, HEC Lecture Hall 1
Continued lecture to Lifestyle Medicine students
1:00-4:00 p.m.
Location: WesternU Lebanon, Lecture Hall 1
Streamed to WesternU Pomona, HEC Lecture Hall 1
June 4, 2015
Follow up lecture on lifestyle medicine
Time TBD
Location: WesternU Pomona, HEC Lecture Hall 1
Streamed to WesternU Lebanon, Lecture Hall 1
system do its job better.

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