Contact: Phil Hearn
A health education and sports medicine expert from the University of Texas will discuss "Aging, Habitual Exercise and Arterial Stiffness" Friday [Sept. 24] during a lecture at Mississippi State.
Hirofumi Tanaka will make his 1:30 p.m public presentation at the university's Wise Center Auditorium as part of the 2004 Southeast American College of Sports Medicine Lecture Tour and the College of Veterinary Medicine's All Students' Day.
Tanaka is the director of the Cardiovascular Aging Laboratory in the department of kinesiology and health education at UT-Austin. His visit is hosted by MSU's kinesiology department and the veterinary college.
He has published more than 90 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has conducted research funded by numerous grants of the National Institutes of Health. Most recently, he has been investigating the effects of aging, smoking and habitual exercise on arterial stiffening and blood pressure regulation.
Tanaka received a bachelor's degree from the International Martial Arts University in Chiba, Japan, a master's from Ball State University and a doctorate from the University of Tennessee. He completed post-doctoral work at the University of Colorado, and later served as co-director of the Human Cardiovascular Research Laboratory and the Integrative Physiology Core Laboratory at that institution.
He has received numerous honors, including the American Physiological Society Young Investigator and NIH Research Service awards.
For more information, contact Joseph Chromiak at (662) 325-7233 or jchrom@colled.msstate.edu.