Exercise as the Antidote to Aging: Reversing the Aging Process

Barry A. Franklin

Thursday, 22 Apr 2010 at 7:30 pm – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union

Barry A. Franklin is director of cardiac rehabilitation and exercise laboratories at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, and a noted author and scholar in combining exercise physiology with cardiology, heart disease prevention and cardiovascular risk reduction, obesity and metabolism. He coauthored Contemporary Diagnosis and Management in Cardiovascular Exercise, which features state-of-the-art strategies for patients to help them avoid lifestyle choices that may put them at risk for cardiovascular disease. The Pease Family Scholar.

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In addition to his position at William Beaumont Hospital, Franklin holds adjunct faculty appointments as clinical professor of exercise science at Oakland (Mich.) University, professor of physiology at Wayne State (Mich.) University School of Medicine, and clinical professor, Department of Family Medicine, at the University of Michigan Medical School.
He previously served as president of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (1988) and president of the American College of Sports Medicine (1999). He has also held multiple leadership positions with the American Heart Association (AHA) on both at the regional and national level. He currently serves as chair of the AHA Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism.

Franklin has written or edited more than 500 publications, including 77 book chapters, and 27 books. His most widely cited text, co-authored with Joseph C. Piscatella, is titled, "Take a Load Off Your Heart" (Workman Publishing, New York). He is also a co-author of the American Heart Association book, “The No-Fad Diet” (Random House, New York). He recently co-edited “Pollock’s Textbook of Cardiovascular Disease and Rehabilitation,” (Human Kinetics, Champaign, Ill.).

The Pease Family Scholar program was created in memory of Harvey and Bomell Pease, Newport Beach, Calif. The endowment was established in 1991 by their son, Dean Pease, and his wife, Sally, to bring visiting scholars to the Iowa State campus. Dean Pease, who died in 1994, chaired the department of health and human performance from 1987 to 1990.

Cosponsored By:

• College of Human Sciences
• Kinesiology
• Pease Family Scholar
• Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)