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Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture Series

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Peter A. Rechnitzer, M.D., M.R.C.P. (Edin), F.R.C.P. (C), F.R.C.P. (E), F.A.C.C.

The Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture is an annual event made possible from a grant set up when Professor Rechnitzer retired from the University in 1992. The Fund is to aid in increasing the national and international recognition of the work done at The Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging through contact with other scientists working in the general area of exercise and ageing. A lecture series was established in 1995 to honour Professor Rechnitzer and his work at the Centre.

Before his retirement, Peter Rechnitzer was a practising physician who donated his efforts and expertise to realise his dream of melding research with practical application. He played a leading role with Professor David Cunningham in developing the idea for a research centre. The initial studies into retirement and physical activity and the later study of physical activity in a free living community of people age 55 to 90 years were dynamic investigations which laid the groundwork for the Centre's development.

Along with Professors Cunningham and Donald Paterson, Professor Rechnitzer was instrumental in helping to develop the early concept of this work into an established centre for the study of aging at the University of Western Ontario and St. Joseph's Health Care Centre. Without his untiring efforts to locate the Centre in its present home the general thrust of the Centre, to unite basic research and the applied programs, might never have been realised. He joined enthusiastically with the scientists and Nancy Ecclestone to develop the two main ideas of the Centre, research and community exercise programmes, into a reality.

The series of lectures is dedicated to Peter A. Rechnitzer's firmly held view that physiological processes are best described with responses from individual human adaptations in a real life environment. Top

Read abstracts from past Rechnitzer Lectures

Year	Click to View	Lecture Title/Author
2012	Seventeeth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	Human Skeletal Muscle: Our Maginificent Energy Producer for Movement and Exercise Lawrence L. Spriet, Phd University of Guelph
2011	Sixteenth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	Stress of aging viewed from the cardiovascular system Dr. Edward Lakatta Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health
2010	Fifteenth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	Effects of Age and Exercise on Endothelial Function in Skeletal Muscle: Role of Reactive Oxygen Species Judy M. Muller-Delp, PhD Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics \| University of Florida
2009	Fourteenth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	Aging Muscle Fibres and Exercise Walter R. Frontera, MD, PhD
2008	Thirteenth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	Blood Flow to Exercising Muscles: New Insights to Age-Old Questions David N. Proctor, PhD
2007	Twelfth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	Muscle Microcirculation in Healthy Ageing: Inconvenient Truths David C. Poole, PhD
2005	Eleventh Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	AGE, EXERCISE AND ADAPTATION: THE MITOCHONDRIA LINK KE Conley, PhD Lecture Abstract in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format
2004	Tenth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	EXERCISE AFTER 80 Archie Young MD
2003	Ninth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	EVALUATING THE ROLE OF OXYGEN IN SKELETAL MUSCLE WITH RADIOFREQUENCIES, LIGHT, AND SOUND Kevin K. McCully, PhD
2002	Eighth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	AGEING RESEARCH: THE FIRST 35 YEARS David A. Cunningham, PhD
2001	Seventh Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	SENSORY ASPECTS OF EXERCISE IN AGING Norman L. Jones, M.D.,F.R.C.P.(London), F.R.C.P.(C)
2000	Sixth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	WHY DO WE REQUIRE A SECOND HEART DURING EXERCISE? Loring B. Rowell, PhD
1999	Fifth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	MECHANISMS FOR MATCHING OXYGEN DELIVERY TO ENERGY DEMANDS IN CONTRACTING SKELETAL MUSCLE Bengt Saltin, M.D.
1998	Fourth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture	MUSCLE ATROPHY, WEAKNESS, FATIGUE, AND INJURY: INEVITABLE CONCOMITANTS OF AGEING John A. Faulkner, Ph.D.

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Previous Lectures

		1997 - Brian J. Whipp, Ph.D. St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, England "Oxygen Utilization and Exercise Tolerance: A 2000 Year Perspective"
		1996- Jerome A. Dempsey, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison "Biological Determinants of Maximal Exercise Performance"
		1995 - Douglas R. Seals, Ph.D. The University of Colorado Exercise and Ageing: Autonomic and Cardiovascular Adaptations"