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Fatigue as a Limitation of Performance

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A world event with the best professionals (USA, Sweden, UK, Spain…). An unprecedented event, with presentations updated as of 2021, round table, material and documentation …

Fatigue as a Limitation of Performance

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Speakers

Hakan Westerblad
Häkan Westerblad
Sweden
Benjamin Levine
Benjamin Levine
USA
José López Chicharro
José López Chicharro
Spain
Ron Maughan
Ron Maughan
UK
Eirik-Halvorsen-Wik
Eirik Halvorsen Wik
Norway
Markus Amann
Markus Amann
USA
Iñigo San Millán
Iñigo San Millán
USA
José Naranjo Orellana
Spain
José Antonio Lopez Calbet
José A. López Calbet
Spain
Ana Isabel Ruiz Casado
Ana Ruiz Casado
Spain

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Diary

3 days with the best international speakers on performance and fatigue in sport.

DAY 1 - Friday 5th November

  • 1. The pulmonary system as a performance limitation: fatigue of the respiratory muscles?

    15:30 - 16:30 (Spanish time)

  • 2. The cardiocirculatory system as a performance limitation: cardiac fatigue

    16:30 - 17:30 (Spanish time)

  • 3. Biochemical mechanisms of muscle fatigue

    17:30 - 18:30 (Spanish time)

  • Round table Day 1

    18:30 - 19:00 (Spanish time)

DAY 2 - Saturday 6th November

  • 4. Muscle afferents and fatigue

    15:30 - 16:30 (Spanish time)

  • 5. Fatigue as responsible for muscle injury

    16:30 - 17:30 (Spanish time)

  • 6. Nutritional strategies in preventing fatigue

    17:30 - 18:30 (Spanish time)

  • 7. Integration of fatigue processes in sports training: physiological and biochemical control of recovery

    18:30 - 19:30 (Spanish time)

  • Round table Day 3

    19:30 - 20:00 (Spanish time)

DAY 3 - Sunday 7th November

  • 8. Heart rate variability in controlling fatigue

    15:30 - 16:30 (Spanish time)

  • 9. Fatigue and cancer

    16:30 - 17:30 (Spanish time)

  • 10. Functional reserve at exhaustion

    17:30 - 18:30 (Spanish time)

  • Round table Day 3

    18:30 - 19:00 (Spanish time)

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november, 5

Hakan Westerblad

Hakan Westerblad

Sweden

  • PhD in medicine at Karolinska Instituted.
  • PostDoc at the University of Sydney in Australia.
  • Professor of Cellular Muscle Physiology at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology since 2003
  • Honorary doctor at Lithuanian Sports University.
  • Researching physiology, Skeletal muscle, Fatigue, Calcium, Reactive oxygen species, Muscle weakness
  • Håkan Westerblad participates in the undergraduate education of students in a number of educational programs and is the acting director of studies at the doctoral program at the department
  • His research group studies cellular mechanisms of skeletal muscle fatigue and muscle adaptations in response to training as well as maladaptations in disease, e.g. mitochondrial myopathies. To a large extent his research relates to the complex interactions between force production, intracellular calcium handling, mitochondrial function and reactive oxygen/nitrogen species.
  • His experiments are performed on adult muscle, including unique methods to study isolated fully intact muscle fibers.

Dr. Håkan Westerblad has published journal articles, reviews, book chapters, and technical papers, etc.

Benjamin Levine

Benjamin Levine

USA

  • Internship – Stanford University (1982-1983), Internal Medicine
  • Fellowship – Shinshu University School of Medicine (1985-1986), Environmental Physiology
  • Fellowship – UT Southwestern Medical Center (1987-1989), Cardiology
  • Medical School – Harvard Medical School (1978-1982)
  • Residency – Stanford University (1983-1985), Internal Medicine
  • Founder and director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine
  • Professor of Internal Medicine/cardiology
  • Distinguished Professor of Exercise Sciences (University of Texas)
  • Also, Dr. Levine founded the IEEM (1992), one of the premier laboratories in the world for the study of human clinical and integrative physiology.
  • Renowned sports cardiologist who sees athletes with cardiovascular medical problems from around the world and serves as a consultant to the NCAA, the NHL, the NFL, the USOC, USA Track and Field
  • He has been a key contributor to the guidelines for the management of athletes with heart disease since 1994
  • Also has a unique background in space medicine, serving as a co-investigator on 4 Spacelab missions and the ISS.
  • Also he is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society; he served as VP and member of the Board of Trustees of ACSM, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Autonomic Society
  • Levine has published > 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews, book chapters, and technical papers, and is currently serving on the editorial boards of numerous journals.
  • His main lines of research are High Altitude Research, Cerebral Flow and Syncope (Fainting), Aging and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Bedrest and Spaceflight and Cardiovascular Response to Exercise Training.
José López Chicharro

José López Chicharro

Spain

  • Co-Director of the Symposium with Dr. José Antonio López Calbet
  • Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid.
  • Specialist in Physical Education and Sports Medicine.
  • Full Professor of Exercise Physiology. School of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry of the Complutense University of Madrid.
  • Director of Exercise Physiology and Training and TrainingHIIT Platform education
  • Main topics of research: exercise physiology, effects of physical activity on health, study of cardiovascular risk factors in school children.
  • Author of more and 20 books and many book chapters in relation to Physical Education and Sports Medicine.
  • More than 150 papers in peer reviewed journals (Included in Science Citation Index).
  • Recognition of research activity 90/95, 96/01, 02/07 (3 sections). National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity. Ministry of Education and Science. Madrid.
  • Referee of different international publications on Sports Medicine and Exercise Physiology.

Awards:

  • First and second National Research Prize in Sports Medicine 2001.
  • Second National Prize for Research in Sports Medicine 2000.

Round table and end of day 1

november, 6

Ron Maughan

Ron Maughan

UK

  • PhD in Physiology (“The influence of diet and exercise on mammalian muscle metabolism”)
  • Honorary Professor, School of Medicine, St Andrews University

Previous posts:

  • Professor, Loughborough University. January 2003-2012
  • Professor of Human Physiology, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Aberdeen. August 1997-January 2003
  • Research Fellow, then Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, then Reader, then Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine (formerly Institute of Offshore Medicine), University of Aberdeen. February 1983 -July 1997
  • Research Fellow in Clinical Physiology, Department of Surgery, University of Aberdeen. August 1980 – February 1983
  • Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in Physiology, Department of Sport and Recreation Studies, Liverpool Polytechnic. September 1978 – August 1980

Membership of professional bodies:

  • Physiological Society
  • American Physiological Society
  • Biochemical Society
  • Nutrition Society
  • American College of Sports Medicine (Fellow)
  • Scottish Society for Experimental Medicine
  • Medical Research Society
  • International Society for Advancement of Kinanthropometry (1988-1996)
  • New York Academy of Sciences (1990-2000)
  • European College of Sports Sciences (2001-2002)
  • British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences

Also worked as an editor for International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise, Metabolism British Journal of Sports Medicine, Experimental Physiology, Journal of Sports Sciences, Pflugers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology Nutrition and European Journal of Applied Physiology.

Dr. Maughan has many awards:

  • British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine Exchange Lecturer, 1996
  • Gatorade Sports Science Institute Outstanding Teacher award, 1997
  • American College of Sports Medicine, President’s Lecturer, 1998
  • American College of Sports Medicine, Gisolfi Lecturer, 2002
  • Holmes Lecturer, Newcastle University, 2003
  • Danone Visiting Professorship, Katholieke University Leuven, 2003

Dr. Maughan has more than 300 papers in refereed scientific publications, more than 50 contributions to published Conference proceedings, more than 200 published abstracts, etc.

5. Fatigue as responsible for muscle injury

Eirik-Halvorsen-Wik

Eirik Halvorsen Wik

Norway

  • Investigador de posgrado en el Hospital de Medicina Ortopédica y Deportiva Aspetar en colaboración con la Academia Aspire, y tiene su sede en Doha, Qatar.
  • Además es doctorando en el Departamento de Medicina Deportiva y en el Centro de Investigación de Trauma Deportivo de Oslo.
  • Su proyecto de investigación analiza la relación entre crecimiento, maduración, carga de entrenamiento y lesiones en atletas de academias juveniles, principalmente en fútbol y atletismo.

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  • Completó una maestría en fisiología del ejercicio a través de la Escuela Noruega de Ciencias del Deporte, examinando perfiles de actividad en balonmano de equipos internacionales utilizando microtecnología.
  • También ha obtenido un título de enseñanza complementario y tiene experiencia como entrenador de rendimiento físico en el fútbol de la principal liga femenina de Noruega (Toppserien).

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Su investigación trata sobre: Carga de entrenamiento y lesiones, Crecimiento y maduración en deportistas, Prevención de lesiones, control de lesiones, fisiología del fútbol, rendimiento físico en deportes de equipo. Algunas de sus investigaciones son:

  • Perfiles de actividad en el balonmano femenino por equipos internacionales.
  • La participación de médicos dedicados a la investigación en la recopilación de datos y la incidencia de lesiones en el fútbol juvenil.
  • Las tasas de maduración y crecimiento esquelético y relación con las lesiones óseas y de la placa de crecimiento en el atletismo adolescente.
  • Examen de las características físicas y las diferencias posicionales en futbolistas profesionales en Qatar.
Markus Amann

Markus Amann

USA

  • Graduate Training (M.S) – Technical University of Munich – Exercise Physiology
  • Doctoral Training (Ph.D.) – University of Utah – Integrative Physiology
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship – University of Wisconsin – Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Physiology
  • Professor of Anesthesiology, Theodore H. Stanley Presidential Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology, and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering.
  • His research focuses on the neural control of the circulation and breathing, and the etiology of central nervous system fatigue.
  • Amann’s work aims at enhancing our understanding of the impact of cardiovascular disease on autonomic reflex function and of mechanisms determining neuromuscular fatigue during physical activity.
Iñigo San Millán

Iñígo San Millán

USA

  • Health sciences in the specialty of Sports Medicine
  • Doctoral Training Sport Science (Ph.D.)
  • Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (USA) in the Departments of Medicine and Human Physiology and Nutrition
  • Head of trainers staff in UAE Team – Emirates
  • Consultant in exercise physiology and sports medicine to international organizations like the US Olympic Committee and the International Cycling Union
  • Pioneer in developing new methodologies for monitoring athletes at the metabolic and physiological level including a novel method to measure mitochondrial function in vivo as well as the invention, along with his colleague Dr. John Hill, of the first method to measure skeletal muscle glycogen in a non-invasive manner using high frequency ultrasound
  • Also, he is an internationally renowned applied physiologist having worked for the past 20 years for many professional teams and elite athletes worldwide across multiple sports like running, football, soccer, basketball, rowing, triathlon, swimming, Olympics and cycling including eight Pro Cycling Teams
  • San-Millan works around clinical and research work in exercise metabolism, nutrition, sports performance, overtraining, diabetes, cancer and critical care.

Round table and end of day 2

november, 7

8. Heart rate variability in controlling fatigue

José Naranjo Orellana

Spain

  • Especialista en Medicina de la Educación Física y el Deporte.
  • Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía.
  • Doctor en Medicina y Cirugía.
  • Profesor Titular de Universidad en la Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla.
  • Profesor de Medicina Deportiva de la Escuela Nacional de Entrenadores de Fútbol desde 1997.

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  • Jefe de los Servicios Médicos del Sevilla Fútbol Club S.A.D. (2011 – 2014).
  • Asesor Científico en Fisiología del Ejercicio del Real Betis Balompié temporada (2014- 2015).
    Médico de la Selección
  • Nacional femenina de Fútbol Sala (R.F.E.F.) (2015 – 2016) Médico del Centro Andaluz de Medicina del Deporte de la Junta de Andalucía en Sevilla desde Noviembre de 1997 -2010.
  • Miembro de la Junta Directiva de la Federación Española de Medicina del Deporte (FEMEDE) desde Noviembre de 2003.
  • Colaborador de la Sección de Fisiología Respiratoria del Hospital Virgen del Rocío de Sevilla (1984 – 1986).
  • Colaborador del Departamento de Fisiología Médica y Biofísica (Laboratorio de Fisiología del Ejercicio) de la Universidad de Sevilla (1986 – 1988).
  • Director del Servicio de Medicina Deportiva del Centro de Estudios, Desarrollo e Investigación del Fútbol Andaluz (Federación Andaluza de Fútbol) (1990 – 2002).

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Primer Premio en el IV Certamen de Programas sobre Promoción de la Actividad Física y la Alimentación Equilibrada 2007 por el trabajo “Impacto de un proyecto de cooperación entre recursos sanitarios y comunitarios para la prescripción y puesta en marcha de un programa de actividad física”.

Además, el Dr. Naranjo realizado numerosas publicaciones en revistas, capítulos, etc.

José Antonio Lopez Calbet

José Antonio López Calbet

Spain

  • Co-Director of the Symposium with Dr. José López Chicharro
  • Graduate in physical education
  • Graduate in medicine and surgery, specialist in Sports Medicine and Rheumatology specialist
  • Master in Sports Sciences at the University of Barcelona
  • Medical doctor (Hospital Clinic Barcelona) University of Barcelona. Specialty in Sports Medicine at the University of Montpellier (France) and University of Barcelona Specialty in Rheumatology PhD at the University of Barcelona.
  • Postdoctoral appointments: The Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Full Professor of Exercise Physiology, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Canary Islands, Spain with more than 20 years of experience.
  • Professor in master’s and doctoral programs at various Spanish universities.
  • Also taught courses at the Universities of Copenhagen, Tokyo, Sukuba, Kobe and Concordia (Montreal).
  • Main topics of research: cardiovascular response to exercise; obesity and exercise, with emphasis on the molecular mechanism by which leptin and insulin act on human skeletal muscle.
  • More than 150 papers in peer reviewed journals.
  • Thirty six book chapters.
  • About 120 invited lectures in Spain and other countries.
  • More than 25 research grants at national and international level.
  • Member of the editorial board of: Journal of Applied Physiology; Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, European Journal of Applied Physiology, PLoS One and The Journal of Physical Activity and Health.
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the European College.
Ana Isabel Ruiz Casado

Ana Ruiz Casado

Spain

  • Graduate Training (M.S) – Universidad de Salamanca – Medicine
  • Postgraduate Training – Hospital Universitario 12 de octubre – Residency at the Department of Oncology
  • Doctoral Training (Ph.D.) – Universidad de La Coruña – Cum laude. Doctorate Award
  • Medical Oncologist. Gastrointestinal Cancer Unit.Department of Medical Oncology.
  • Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda.
  • Honorary Professor & Teaching Clinical Collaborator of the School of Medicine at Autonomous University of Madrid
  • Teaching Collaborator of the School of Sports Sciences at the Universidad Europea de Madrid.
  • Chairman of the Cancer Commission at Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda
  • Ruiz-Casado has extensive experience in different hospitals (Hospital de Txagorritxu, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Hospital Arquitecto Marcide) and responsibilities, for example, as Project Leader PharmaMar SA. Also in differents Institutional Committee Activities (President of the Cancer Commission in many hospitals)
  • Ruiz-Casado works around physical activity and cancer with a wide variety of papers and refereed scientific publications.

Round table and end of symposium

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Speaker: Håkan Westerblad, PhD, MD

Symposium topic: Biochemical mechanisms of muscle fatigue.

Day: 5th November 2021

Basic information of the speaker:

  • PhD in medicine at Karolinska Instituted.
  • PostDoc at the University of Sydney in Australia.
  • Professor of Cellular Muscle Physiology at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology since 2003
  • Honorary doctor at Lithuanian Sports University.
  • Researching physiology, Skeletal muscle, Fatigue, Calcium, Reactive oxygen species, Muscle weakness
  • Håkan Westerblad participates in the undergraduate education of students in a number of educational programs and is the acting director of studies at the doctoral program at the department
  • His research group studies cellular mechanisms of skeletal muscle fatigue and muscle adaptations in response to training as well as maladaptations in disease, e.g. mitochondrial myopathies. To a large extent his research relates to the complex interactions between force production, intracellular calcium handling, mitochondrial function and reactive oxygen/nitrogen species.
  • His experiments are performed on adult muscle, including unique methods to study isolated fully intact muscle fibers.

Dr. Håkan Westerblad has published journal articles, reviews, book chapters, and technical papers, etc.

Speaker: The cardiocirculatory system as a performance limitation: cardiac fatigue, PhD, MS

Symposium topic: Muscle afferents and fatigue.

Day: 5th November 2021

Information of the speaker:

  • Internship – Stanford University (1982-1983), Internal Medicine
  • Fellowship – Shinshu University School of Medicine (1985-1986), Environmental Physiology
  • Fellowship – UT Southwestern Medical Center (1987-1989), Cardiology
  • Medical School – Harvard Medical School (1978-1982)
  • Residency – Stanford University (1983-1985), Internal Medicine
  • Founder and director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine
  • Professor of Internal Medicine/cardiology
  • Distinguished Professor of Exercise Sciences (University of Texas)
  • Also, Dr. Levine founded the IEEM (1992), one of the premier laboratories in the world for the study of human clinical and integrative physiology.
  • Renowned sports cardiologist who sees athletes with cardiovascular medical problems from around the world and serves as a consultant to the NCAA, the NHL, the NFL, the USOC, USA Track and Field
  • He has been a key contributor to the guidelines for the management of athletes with heart disease since 1994
  • Also has a unique background in space medicine, serving as a co-investigator on 4 Spacelab missions and the ISS.
  • Also he is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society; he served as VP and member of the Board of Trustees of ACSM, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Autonomic Society
  • Levine has published > 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews, book chapters, and technical papers, and is currently serving on the editorial boards of numerous journals.
  • His main lines of research are High Altitude Research, Cerebral Flow and Syncope (Fainting), Aging and Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Bedrest and Spaceflight and Cardiovascular Response to Exercise Training.

Speaker: José López Chicharro, PhD, MS

Symposium topic: The pulmonary system as a performance limitation: fatigue of the respiratory muscles?

Day: 5th November 2021

  • Co-Director of the Symposium with Dr. José Antonio López Calbet
  • Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid.
  • Specialist in Physical Education and Sports Medicine.
  • Full Professor of Exercise Physiology. School of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry of the Complutense University of Madrid.
  • Director of Exercise Physiology and Training and TrainingHIIT Platform education
  • Main topics of research: exercise physiology, effects of physical activity on health, study of cardiovascular risk factors in school children.
  • Author of more and 20 books and many book chapters in relation to Physical Education and Sports Medicine.
  • More than 150 papers in peer reviewed journals (Included in Science Citation Index).
  • Awards:
    • First and second National Research Prize in Sports Medicine 2001.
    • Second National Prize for Research in Sports Medicine 2000.
  • Recognition of research activity 90/95, 96/01, 02/07 (3 sections). National Commission for the Evaluation of Research Activity. Ministry of Education and Science. Madrid.
  • Referee of different international publications on Sports Medicine and Exercise Physiology.

Speaker: Ron Maughan, PhD

Symposium topic: Nutritional strategies in preventing fatigue

Day: 6th November 2021

Information of the speaker:

  • PhD in Physiology (“The influence of diet and exercise on mammalian muscle metabolism”)
  • Honorary Professor, School of Medicine, St Andrews University

Previous posts:

  • Professor, Loughborough University. January 2003-2012
  • Professor of Human Physiology, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Aberdeen. August 1997-January 2003
  • Research Fellow, then Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, then Reader, then Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine (formerly Institute of Offshore Medicine), University of Aberdeen. February 1983 -July 1997
  • Research Fellow in Clinical Physiology, Department of Surgery, University of Aberdeen. August 1980 – February 1983
  • Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in Physiology, Department of Sport and Recreation Studies, Liverpool Polytechnic. September 1978 – August 1980

Membership of professional bodies:

  • Physiological Society
  • American Physiological Society
  • Biochemical Society
  • Nutrition Society
  • American College of Sports Medicine (Fellow)
  • Scottish Society for Experimental Medicine
  • Medical Research Society
  • International Society for Advancement of Kinanthropometry (1988-1996)
  • New York Academy of Sciences (1990-2000)
  • European College of Sports Sciences (2001-2002)
  • British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences

Also worked as an editor for International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise, Metabolism British Journal of Sports Medicine, Experimental Physiology, Journal of Sports Sciences, Pflugers Archiv-European Journal of Physiology Nutrition and European Journal of Applied Physiology.

Dr. Maughan has many awards:

  • British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine Exchange Lecturer, 1996
  • Gatorade Sports Science Institute Outstanding Teacher award, 1997
  • American College of Sports Medicine, President’s Lecturer, 1998
  • American College of Sports Medicine, Gisolfi Lecturer, 2002
  • Holmes Lecturer, Newcastle University, 2003
  • Danone Visiting Professorship, Katholieke University Leuven, 2003

Dr. Maughan has more than 300 papers in refereed scientific publications, more than 50 contributions to published Conference proceedings, more than 200 published abstracts, etc.

Speaker: Markus Amann, PhD, MS

Symposium topic: Muscle afferents and fatigue.

Day: 6th November 2021

Basic information of the speaker:

  • Graduate Training (M.S) – Technical University of Munich – Exercise Physiology
  • Doctoral Training (Ph.D.) – University of Utah – Integrative Physiology
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship – University of Wisconsin – Pulmonary and Cardiovascular Physiology
  • Professor of Anesthesiology, Theodore H. Stanley Presidential Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology, and Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Engineering.
  • His research focuses on the neural control of the circulation and breathing, and the etiology of central nervous system fatigue.
  • Amann’s work aims at enhancing our understanding of the impact of cardiovascular disease on autonomic reflex function and of mechanisms determining neuromuscular fatigue during physical activity.

Speaker: Iñigo San Millan, PhD, MS

Symposium topic: Integration of fatigue processes in sports training: physiological and biochemical control of recovery.

Day: 6th November 2021

  • Health sciences in the specialty of Sports Medicine
  • Doctoral Training Sport Science (Ph.D.)
  • Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (USA) in the Departments of Medicine and Human Physiology and Nutrition
  • Head of trainers staff in UAE Team – Emirates
  • Consultant in exercise physiology and sports medicine to international organizations like the US Olympic Committee and the International Cycling Union
  • Pioneer in developing new methodologies for monitoring athletes at the metabolic and physiological level including a novel method to measure mitochondrial function in vivo as well as the invention, along with his colleague Dr. John Hill, of the first method to measure skeletal muscle glycogen in a non-invasive manner using high frequency ultrasound
  • Also, he is an internationally renowned applied physiologist having worked for the past 20 years for many professional teams and elite athletes worldwide across multiple sports like running, football, soccer, basketball, rowing, triathlon, swimming, Olympics and cycling including eight Pro Cycling Teams
  • San-Millan works around clinical and research work in exercise metabolism, nutrition, sports performance, overtraining, diabetes, cancer and critical care.

Speaker: José Antonio López Calbet, PhD, MS

Symposium topic: Functional reserve at exhaustion.

Day: 7th November 2021

Information of the speaker:

  • Co-Director of the Symposium with Dr. José López Chicharro
  • Graduate in physical education
  • Graduate in medicine and surgery, specialist in Sports Medicine and Rheumatology specialist
  • Master in Sports Sciences at the University of Barcelona
  • Medical doctor (Hospital Clinic Barcelona) University of Barcelona. Specialty in Sports Medicine at the University of Montpellier (France) and University of Barcelona Specialty in Rheumatology PhD at the University of Barcelona.
  • Postdoctoral appointments: The Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Full Professor of Exercise Physiology, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Canary Islands, Spain with more than 20 years of experience.
  • Professor in master’s and doctoral programs at various Spanish universities.
  • Also taught courses at the Universities of Copenhagen, Tokyo, Sukuba, Kobe and Concordia (Montreal).
  • Main topics of research: cardiovascular response to exercise; obesity and exercise, with emphasis on the molecular mechanism by which leptin and insulin act on human skeletal muscle.
  • More than 150 papers in peer reviewed journals.
  • Thirty six book chapters.
  • About 120 invited lectures in Spain and other countries.
  • More than 25 research grants at national and international level.
  • Member of the editorial board of: Journal of Applied Physiology; Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, European Journal of Applied Physiology, PLoS One and The Journal of Physical Activity and Health.
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the European College.

Speaker: Ana Isabel Ruiz-Casado, MD, PhD

Symposium topic: Fatigue and Cancer.

Day: 7th November 2021

Information of the speaker:

  • Graduate Training (M.S) – Universidad de Salamanca – Medicine
  • Postgraduate Training – Hospital Universitario 12 de octubre – Residency at the Department of Oncology
  • Doctoral Training (Ph.D.) – Universidad de La Coruña – Cum laude. Doctorate Award
  • Medical Oncologist. Gastrointestinal Cancer Unit.Department of Medical Oncology.
  • Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda.
  • Honorary Professor & Teaching Clinical Collaborator of the School of Medicine at Autonomous University of Madrid
  • Teaching Collaborator of the School of Sports Sciences at the Universidad Europea de Madrid.
  • Chairman of the Cancer Commission at Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda
  • Ruiz-Casado has extensive experience in different hospitals (Hospital de Txagorritxu, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Hospital Arquitecto Marcide) and responsibilities, for example, as Project Leader PharmaMar SA. Also in differents Institutional Committee Activities (President of the Cancer Commission in many hospitals)
  • Ruiz-Casado works around physical activity and cancer with a wide variety of papers and refereed scientific publications.