Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: What's the Connection?
   
    In this panel presentation, Brown-Forman Professor of Psychology Timothy Salthouse will discuss the importance of cognitive activity to healthy aging. Professor of Medicine and Human Services Dr. Art Weltman will demonstrate how we have engineered activity out of everyday lives and emphasize the importance of bringing movement and fitness back into our daily activities. Learn how keeping your mind and body active can promote healthy living and successful aging.
     
   

Saturday, October 28 (prior to the North Carolina State game)
10am-11am
Alumni Hall
     
   
Timothy A. Salthouse is the Brown-Forman Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Virginia. He previously was Professor of Psychology at The University of Missouri - Columbia, and Regents Professor of Psychology at The Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Psychological Society (APS), and the Gerontological Society of America, and a member of the Psychonomic Society. Dr. Salthouse received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1974. He received the APA Division 20 Distinguished Contribution Award in 1995, and was named an APS William James Fellow in 1998. He was editor of the journal Psychology and Aging from 1991 through 1996, and has published 8 books and nearly 200 chapters and journal articles. His research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging since 1978, and has included a Research Career Development Award and two MERIT Awards.
   
Dr. Arthur Weltman is Professor of Human Services and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia where he is also director of the General Clinical Research Center Exercise Physiology Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has taught at the University of Colorado, the University of Louisville, and Western Illinois University before coming to U.Va. in 1985. He has been a faculty member in the Darden School1s Executive Education program. He is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and a member of the North American Society for the Study of Obesity and the American Diabetes Association. In 1985, he co-edited The Proceedings of the 1983 White House symposium on Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine. He is the author of over 160 articles and a regularly invited speaker and hundreds of professional meetings and academic conferences. Dr. Weltman is a grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and has served on numerous health and fitness advisory boards across the country. He has also been a soccer coach and a basketball coach for many years.
     
    Series sponsored in part by the U.Va. Houston Club
     
    Questions? Contact Megan Raymond, meganr at virginia.edu, or Althea Brooks, alw4k at virginia.edu.