Dr. Syed Mohammad Waris has completed his bachelors from Rajiv Gandhi University of health and science Bangalore and MD in Alternative medicine from Indian board of alternative medicine and MSc physical therapy from Brooksville university study center in Oman. Dr. Waris has worked as head of the stroke center of national stroke association of Malaysia Sabah center. Currently he is working as associate director academics at London academy of sports and health sciences UK. . His thesis on stroke rehabilitation is running as a course at London academy of sports and health sciences.

Physiotherapy,Sports & Health Sciences,Stroke Rehabilitation, Yoga, Obesity Management, Stress Management.

Marialice Kern is a Professor and Department Chair of the Kinesiology Department at San Francisco State University. Dr. Kern received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and has been teaching at SFSU for 23 years. She is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, and in 2015, she received the Recognition Award from the Southwest Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Kinesiology, Sports Medicine

Dr. John Ebnezar is an internationally renowned orthopedic surgeon, passionate about creating, conceptualizing, implementing preventive new orthopedic health awareness modules with an aim to propagate low cost orthopedic health care. He is specialized in trauma, spine, geriatric orthopedics and sports medicine. He holds Guinness World Records both for academics (2010) and social service (2015), only orthopedic surgeon in the world to do so. He is a PhD in yoga, involved in 6 original-yoga researches, won Best Research Award from SVyasa Yoga University (2012) for his work on knee arthritis and role of yoga in fracture healing (2010). He has pioneered a new treatment method, WHolistic Orthopedics, by blending modern orthopedics with Indian Yoga, which is simple, cheap, effective alternative for patients for whom knee replacement is not an option and also for patients with modern life style orthopedic problems and has redefined the way orthopedic ailments are treated across the globe.

Yoga, Musculoskeletal Development

Joe Malone has been at Middle Tennessee State University since 2005. He has taught classes that range from Health and Wellness to Fitness Education for the Adult. Dr. Malone created a new course in 2012 called Women’s Personal Conditioning which has been highly successful and effective. He holds a Ph.D. in Health and Human Performance with a minor in Neuropsychology from Middle Tennessee State University. He has also earned national certifications as a Personal Trainer, Lifestyle and Weight Management Consultant and Fitness Educator. He is the former Chair of the Nashville Community Health and Wellness Team and the current Topic Network Chair for Health Promotion for the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood. His area of specialization is premenopausal women’s wellness, particularly college women’s wellness as related to female neuropsychology and lifestyle development. Dr. Malone has over 20 years of experience working with females. Beginning in the mid-1990’s he was a Personal Trainer primarily to women who ranged in age from their teens to their 30s and early 40s which has given him a longitudinal perspective on the importance of healthy lifestyle development for young women. Starting in 2007 he began to focus on life coaching college-age women. During this time he has learned a great deal about the adult developmental pathway of females. He founded a nonprofit organization to promote young women’s wellness in 2008. His research interests center around the fitness adherence, optimal nutrition, social support/stress reduction, general wellness behavior and safety of college-age females.

the fitness adherence, optimal nutrition, social support/stress reduction, general wellness behavior and safety of college-age females.

Julie Larsen is dual-credentialed as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and an American College of Sports Medicine Clinical Exercise Physiologist. She recently earned her Ph.D. in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from Washington State University in Spokane, WA. Her diversity of experience includes teaching a variety of exercise classes to middle-aged women in various states of health and disease, providing nutrition education and counseling to low-income families, interning in a cardiac rehabilitation facility, developing a weight loss program for veterans, and most recently, teaching at a university. Dr. Larsen teaches an assortment of classes, ranging from Nutrition and Exercise Throughout the Lifecyle to Exercise Testing and Prescription; from Nutrition Assessment and Lifestyle Counseling to Nutrition and Exercise Practicum, in which she supervises undergraduate students as they work in the Campus Health and Fitness Clinic. She is also a Health Promotion Clinical Director for the Special Olympics.

Exercise Physiology,