Children's Exercise Physiology
Thomas W. Rowland, MD,is director of pediatric cardiology at the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he established an exercise testing laboratory. The author of Exercise and Children's Health and editor of the journal Pediatric Exercise Science for the past 15 years, he has extensive research experience in exercise physiology of children.Dr. Rowland has served as president of the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine (NASPEM) and was on the board of trustees of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). He is a past president of the New England chapter of the ACSM and received the ACSM Honor Award in 1993.Since receiving BS and MD degrees from the University of Michigan in 1965 and 1969, Dr. Rowland has been an assistant and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worchester (1977 to 1990) and an assistant and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston (1975 to the present). He is professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine and adjunct professor of exercise science at the University of Massachusetts.In addition to conducting extensive research, Dr. Rowland has written and spoken about developmental exercise physiology, the effects of lifestyle on cardiovascular function in children, iron deficiency in adolescent athletes, and the determinants of exercise performance in children.