Dr. Jon Myers will present the Getchell Lecture on March 23, 2010.
Dr. Myers presently 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. His research interests have focused on the areas of cardiopulmonary 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