Active Girls Healthy Women hosting coffee talk on physical activity during pregnancy
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Aug. 12, 2014) - The University of Kentucky’s Active Girls Healthy Women Program is hosting a Coffee Talk session on Friday, Aug. 23 on Zoom. These events are open to all university and community members.
As part of the Sports Medicine Research Institute in the UK College of Health Sciences, the Active Girls Health Women Program is a group of researchers, clinicians and professionals who are working together to improve the health of girls and women through research, outreach, and educational efforts.
Coffee Talks aims to discuss evidence-based strategies to advance girls’ and women’s physical activity and health. This month’s coffee talk topic is on the benefits of physical activity during pregnancy.
Date: Aug. 23
Time: 9-10 a.m.
Location: Zoom (click here to register for link)
Speaker: Linda May, Ph.D., associate professor in East Carolina University’s Department of Kinesiology.
Dr. Linda May, associate professor in the Kinesiology Department of Health and Human Performance, teaches exercise physiology students and is adjunct faculty in obstetrics and gynecology for the Brody School of Medicine. May researches topics relating to the influence of maternal exercise during pregnancy on child development before and after birth. Her research is presented in worldwide media outlets, including the New York Times.
May received a Ph.D. from Kent State University and Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine. Her dissertation focus was on the development of the cardiac beta-adrenergic system in BAX and NGF knockout mice. She attended the University of Florida where she earned a Master of Science, graduating cum laude in exercise physiology. May also graduated, with honors, from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science in sports administration.
May published her first book, “Physiology of Prenatal Exercise and Fetal Development,” in 2012 and has won the 2017 East Carolina University Health Sciences Author Award. May has taught for more than 15 years, in subjects including histology, physiology and gross anatomy. Her hobbies and interests include spending time with her family, biking, exercising, gardening, cooking, baseball and the outdoors.
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