The Journey to Peak Performance
The Providence Heart + Lung Institute presents Peak Performance: The Path to Exceptional Athletic Achievement, an afternoon symposium taking place March 10 as part of UBC's Celebrate Research Week.
Join leading experts from around the world for an afternoon focused on hot topics in the scientific, ethical and psychosocial complexities underlying competitive sports and the challenges athletes face in reaching peak performance. Presenters and discussants will address state-of-the-art advances and future innovations that may play important roles in elite achievement: ergogenic aids (such as nutritional supplements, "doping", and mechanical assistive devices), mental-emotional strength and stamina, breakthroughs in the healing and repair of injuries and many of the ethical implications and considerations involved with these issues. This forum for lively and thought-provoking discussion will interest anyone involved in athletic activities: aspiring athletes themselves, their coaches and families, spectators, health sciences and engineering innovators, the press, and the public-at-large.
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