25th Marathon Medicine Conference: Global Warming, Exertional Heat Illness And The Future Of The Marathon Race

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Also Included In: Sports Medicine / Fitness;  Rehabilitation
Article Date: 28 Mar 2008 - 4:00 PDT

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Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE

A meeting in association with the Flora London Marathon. An open meeting in association with and sponsored by the Flora London Marathon. Doctors, physiotherapists, sports scientists and other professions allied to medicine all welcome. Free registration but please notify RSM (Royal Society of Medicine) that you are coming by booking online or emailing sports@rsm.ac.uk.

Two major marathons, Rotterdam and Chicago, were curtailed in 2007 due to extreme heat. It is expedient therefore to look at the future of marathon running in the context of man's evolutionary capabilities.

Registration Details:
Delegate: Free of charge

Meeting ref: SP-E10-6

8.30 am
Registration, tea and coffee

Introduction and welcome

9.00 am
One hundred years of the London Marathon
Dr Dan Tunstall Pedoe, Convenor and London Marathon Medical Director Emeritus

9.15 am
The reality of global warming
Dr Hugh Montgomery, University College London

9.35 am
Heat illness and the physiology of running in the heat
Dr Mike Stroud, Southampton

10.00 am
Investigation of exertional heatstroke in military personnel: the hunt for defective physiology
Dr Daniel Roiz de Sa, Institute of Naval Medicine, Gosport

10.25 am
Is exertional heatstroke like malignant hyperpyrexia, due to abnormal muscle?
Professor Phil Hopkins, Department of Anaesthesia, Leeds

10.45 am
Fluids and carbohydrate break

Guest lecture

11.00 am
Mad dogs and hominids. How and why our ancestors evolved to run long distances in the midday sun
Prof Daniel Lieberman, Harvard University

The future of marathon running

11.45 am
Tips for Dr Frankenstein ; how to bioengineer a sub 1hour 30min marathon runner
Dr Henning Wackerhage, University of Aberdeen

12.15 pm
Round table and discussion: the future of marathon running
Panel: above speakers and invited guests.

1.00 pm
Close of meeting

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