Dr. McAllister provides instructional expertise in the therapeutic use of exercise for disease states. Prior to recieving his Ph.D. in physiology, he had extensive experience in cardiac rehabilitation and he held positions at Wisconsin-LaCrosse, Ball State University, and the department of Cardiology at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. Dr. McElroy's work focuses on how social class affects participation in sport and physical activity and conversely, how sport and physical activity can be used to illuminate class struggles in modern societies. Her work includes both an historical analysis of physical activity and class relations as well as attention to more recent issues of race and gender. Mary's instructional duties include Physical Activity in Contemporary Society, Gender Issues in Sport and Exercise, and Research Methods in Kinesiology.
Social issues are key component of physical activity participation.
Dr. McElroy's background in sociocultural theory and methods provides students with opportunities to examine issues such as social class, race and exercise participation, socialization into physical activity and sport, and body image and eating disorders. Tim I. Musch Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Position Professor. Although the initial problem in these individuals is a damaged heart, the body reacts to it's poor pumping action in a fashion that further compromises the individual's physiological mechanisms that contribute to the large decrements in exercise capacity that occurs with this pathological syndrome. Dr. Musch is Associate Editor of Medicine and Sciences in Sports and Exercise. Tim has recieved outstanding ratings by students for his instruction of physiology of exercise at the graduate and undergraduate levels.