Advisory Board
Timothy Noakes, MBCh, MD, FACSM
Tim Noakes, author of Oxford's internationally acclaimed Lore of Running, now in its fourth edition, needs little introduction as the runner's guru. As the Discovery Health Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of Cape Town he has established an international reputation as an outstanding scientist, researcher and teacher, and he is a gifted and successful author.
While his main professional and academic role is that of Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at UCT, he is also the Director of the Medical Research Council/UCT Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sport Medicine, and, with Morné du Plessis, founded the Sports Science Institute of South Africa in Newlands. He is on the editorial boards of eight international scientific publications, is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, and has won numerous awards for his research. In 1999, he was also in Olympic Committee's Science Academy.
Jonathan Myers, PhD
Presently, Dr. Myers manages day-to-day research activities in the Cardiology department at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and is coordinator for the Cardiology exercise laboratory. He is a clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University, and a consultant to the Stanford Sports Medicine program.
He has been performing research, teaching, and writing in regard to exercise testing and training for over 20 years. His research interests have focused on the areas of cardiolopulmonary exercise testing, exercise training in chronic heart failure, epidemiology related to exercise test response and physical activity patterns, and cardiovascular health in spinal cord injury. He has conducted more than 100 workshops and consulted with manufacturers across the United States and Europe.
In conjunction with Dr. Froelicher, he has published extensively in the areas of exercise physiology, exercise testing, and exercise training. Together. they co-authored a leading textbook on exercise, "Exercise and the Heart, Clinical Concepts". He has authored or co-authored guidelines on exercise testing and related topics for numerous organizations, including the American Heart Association, American Thoracic Society, the American College of Sports Medicine and the European working group on exercise physiology and rehabilitation.