Keynote Presentations
1. Adrian Taylor, Professor of Health Services Research, Plymouth University
Exercise on referral: past, present and the future
2. John Saxton, Professor in Clinical Exercise Physiology, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University
Exercise as medicine: an old fashioned remedy for the health challenges of the 21st century
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3. Phil Williamson, PhD Student, Teesside University
Pitfalls in precision medicine: How do we know individuals differ in their response to a healthintervention?
(Phil presented on behalf of his supervisor, Greg Atkinson, Professor of Health Sciences and Biostatistics Research)
Research presentations
1. Phil Williamson, PhD Student, Teesside University
Inter-individual variation in weight loss in response to exercise-a systematic review and meta-analysis.
2. Sophie Cassidy, Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Research Associate, Newcastle University
Changing Health: Providing digital education with alifestyle coach to create lasting changes inthose with Type 2 diabetes (as featured on BBC ‘How to stay young’)
3. Ioannis Vogiatzis, Professor of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University
Effectiveness of tele-coaching to enhance daily physical activity in chronic lung disease
4. Garry Tew, Associate Professor of Exercise and Health Sciences, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University
Adapted yoga to improve physical function and health-related quality of life in physically-inactive older adults: A pilot randomised controlled trial
5. Camila Rodriguez, Undergraduate Student, University of Sunderland
Exercise therapy for overweight and obese sedentary adults
Workshops
Workshop A
Exercise on referral
Ian Hall, GP Referral Co-ordinator, Everyone Active
Mal Fitzgerald, Active Communities Manager, Everyone Active
Workshop B
Providing physical activity for mental wellbeing
Ray Godwin, Specialised Technical Instructor, Tees, Esk & Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust
Lisa Davies, Exercise Therapy Team Manager, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
A systematic review of the impact of sport-based interventions on the psychological well-being of people in prison
Referred to by Professor Adrian Taylor druing Workshop B.
Workshop C
Physical activity and cancer rehabilitation
Val Jones, Senior Health Development Officer, Middlesbrough Council
Robin Bedford, Health and Physical Activity Development Manager, Middlesbrough Council