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Education : Sports Medicine Advisory Board
Power Plate International Ltd. is backed by a distinguished Scientific Medical Advisory Board, made up of 8 MDs, PhDs and industry experts from around the world. Provided below is a summary of their contribution to the fitness and wellness industries. We are proud to be associated with such stellar individuals.
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Kevin D. Steele, Ph.D
Chairman, Advisory Board
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Dr. Kevin Steele has been in the health and fitness industry for over 25 years. Through his various senior management roles with some of the fitness industry’s leading club chains; Dr. Steele has developed medical referral programs, created corporate universities, fitness education platforms, personal training curriculums, established relationships with a variety of health care providers, established corporate sales programs, participated in government relations/public policy initiatives for the industry, coordinated numerous sponsorships with professional sports teams, and the US Olympic Committee, just to highlight a few. Currently Dr. Steele is a Principal with Communication Consultants, WBS, Inc., a company dedicated to providing high quality consulting and training for the health and fitness industry worldwide.
He serves on the International Leadership Council for IHRSA, is a member of the American Medical Athletic Association, American College of Sports Medicine, he is the Chairman of the Power Plate Medical/Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Steele also sits on the Board’s of HopSports, The Crest Associates of Pepperdine University, and is the past Chairman of the National Academy of Sports Medicine’s Medical/Scientific Advisory Board.
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Christophe Delecluse, PhD
University of Leuven, Belgium
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Christophe Delecluse has a background in biomechanics and exercise sciences related to athletics, and is currently a professor in the Department of Biomedical Kinesiology and part of the Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He has conducted research on the effects of physical activity and exercise interventions using fitness and health parameters in the elderly. Christophe has also led research on the effects of whole body vibration (i.e., Acceleration Training™) on the mechanical characteristics of muscle in untrained persons, elderly and elite athletes. He has been conducting research on the effects of whole body vibration since 2001, resulting in several peer-reviewed publications in international journals.
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Jay T. Kearney, PhD FACSM
United States Olympic Committee
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Jay T. Kearney, a 1980 Olympian, returned to the United States Olympic Committee in December 2006. He previously had served the organization for 14 years as a sports physiologist in the Sport Science Division from 1986-2000. He brings expertise accumulated in a 30-plus year career focused primarily on optimization of elite-level athletic performance. During this time he has coached, competed at the international level, and served the needs of coaches and athletes. Through his six years in the private sector, Kearney has served as a Vice President and a member of the executive teams in both HealtheTech, a start-up health technology company, and Carmichael Training Systems, the leading company in the provision of remote access performance coaching for elite to aspiring athletes. He also ran a consulting business. Kearney holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and taught and developed active research programs at Appalachian State University and The University of Kentucky.
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Heinz Kleinöder, PhD
German Sports University, Cologne, Germany
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Heinz Kleinöder has been a researcher at the German Sports University of Cologne in Germany since 1990, In 1996, he was the recipient of the Young Investigator Award by the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) in Nice. His main research interests are in adaptation of muscle to various forms of strength training, particularly vibration training, EMS training and various combinations with traditional training methods. Heinz has spent eight years as the conditioning coach of Bayer Leverkusen´s first league tennis team, and has been a lecturer of Coaches Academies for many sports. Heinz has been Head of the Department of Strength Diagnostics and Movement Science at the Institute for Training Science and Sport Informatics [in Cologne] since 2005.
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David C. Nieman, D.PH, FACSM
Appalachian State University
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David Nieman is Professor of Health and Exercise Science and Director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. His research focus during the past twenty-five years has been exercise immunology, with a secondary emphasis on sports nutrition, obesity, aging, and nutritional assessment. Dr. Nieman has received over $3 million in research grants from a wide range of funding agencies including the United States Department of Defense, published more than 225 peer-reviewed publications in journals and books, and sits on nine journal editorial boards. He heads the Power Plate Research Center at Appalachian State University. He is the author of nine books on health, exercise physiology, and nutrition, including Exercise Testing and Prescription: A Health-Related Approach (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007, now in its 6th edition).
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Bernard A. Roos, MD
University of Miami, VA Medical Center, and Stein Gerontological Institute
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Dr. Bernard A. Roos is the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Director for Geriatrics Programs, and Professor of Medicine, Neurology, and Sports Sciences. He is Director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC), based at the VA Medical Center. Dr. Roos is Chief Academic Officer at the Miami Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged, where he directs the Stein Gerontological Institute. He heads the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine of the UMMSM’s Department of Medicine. Dr. Roos is the PI for the recent award by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation of a $2 million, four-year grant for a novel competency-based approach to training in falls and cognitive decline. Major new research and training initiatives in geriatrics and falls are emerging from the state of Florida’s Teaching Nursing Home program under the direction of Dr. Roos. TNH supports the continuing development of an online geriatrics university (GeriU) and telemedicine approaches to the training of health professionals in falls prevention and other geriatric syndromes. Dr. Roos has published more than 175 articles, many in collaboration with UM Professor of Exercise and Sport Sciences, Dr. Joseph Signorile, on exercise intervention and aging, and others on his research on the biochemical and clinical aspects of hormone changes during aging and the development of osteoporosis, and changes in mineral and skeletal metabolism and malignant transformation, basic and clinical studies in vitamin D, and other topics related to aging.
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Joseph Signorile, PhD
University of Miami, Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and GRECC
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Joe Signorile is Professor of Exercise Physiology at the University of Miami and a research specialist at the Miami VA Medical Center Geriatrics Research Center. His research concentrates on improving exercise prescriptions to increase performance in older persons and evaluations of training technique to improve power and strength. Dr. Signorile’s current research has concentrated on examining the effects of whole body vibration on caloric output and flexibility. He has over 55 refereed manuscripts and more than 400 national and international scientific and industry presentations.
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Mark Verstegen, MS
President, Athlete’s Performance
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Mark Verstegen began his coaching career at his alma mater, Washington State University. From there he became Assistant Director of Player Development at Georgia Tech where he implemented innovative and successful performance programs for football, men's basketball and golf. In 1995, Mark ventured to Bradenton, Florida to create the International Performance Institute that became known worldwide under Mark's direction. Mark’s continual pursuit for quality and vision of creating a facility completely dedicated to helping athletes achieve their goals came to fruition in 1999 with the development of Athletes' Performance in Tempe, Arizona, followed by 3 additional facilities in the preceding years. The effectiveness of Mark's work at Athletes’ Performance is best measured by his athletes' success. He has trained numerous first-round NFL draft picks, WTA Grand Slam Champions, top PGA/LPGA players, AL and NL Major League Rookies of the Year, MLB Batting Champions, NBA All-Stars, as well as world-class athletes from many other venues. Mark and Athletes’ Performance consult for high performance companies including Adidas, EAS, Gatorade, Keiser, GoFit, Amino Vital, Power Plate, and TIGNUM. Mark serves as the Director of Performance for the NFL Players Association and as an Executive Producer of video-on-demand network Sportskool. He is a regular columnist in Men’s Health Magazine and a sought after industry speaker who regularly presents at the leading conferences in the field.
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