Rechnitzer Lecture
Eighth Annual Peter A. Rechnitzer Lecture
AGEING RESEARCH: THE
FIRST 35 YEARS
David A. Cunningham, PhD
School of Kinesiology and Department of Physiology
The University of Western Ontario
Thursday, April 25, 2002
4 p.m.
Room 2316, Sommerville House
Sponsors:
Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging
The Peter A. Rechnitzer Fund
School of Kinesiology
Department of Physiology
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Faculty of Graduate Studies
Lawson Health Research Institute
David A. Cunningham, PhD
School of Kinesiology and Department of Physiology,
UWO
Dr. David A. Cunningham was born and raised in Toronto.
He received his BA from the University of Western Ontario
in 1960, MSc at the University of Alberta in 1963, and
PhD at the University of Michigan in 1966. He continued
at the University of Michigan as a Research Associate
in Epidemiology involved in the Tecumseh Community Health
Study. Dr. Cunningham received a joint appointment in
Physiology and Physical Education at the University
of Western Ontario in 1969, has been a full Professor
since 1978, and Professor Emeritus effective in July
2001.
Dr. Cunningham has published approximately 200 journal
articles and 30 review articles or book chapters, and
attracted consistent research funding totaling three
million dollars. His outstanding contribution to exercise
physiology research and scholarship in Canada was recognized
with the Honour Award of the Canadian Society for Exercise
Physiology in 1995. Dr. Cunningham's foresight in establishing
research direction has often placed him among the first
to publish in areas that have had important clinical
and social impact: the "cardiac study", exercise
in children, and the initial studies of exercise training
of older men. Dr. Cunningham has excelled at developing
collaborative research with a cadre of physiologists,
physicians, biostatisticians, and social scientists,
and his research and collaborative work have been influential
in gaining the respect of Medicine and other disciplines
for the research conducted in exercise physiology and
physical education.
Dr. Cunningham alsohas had a major impact through the
successes of his graduate students with approximately
20 Master's and a dozen PhD graduates, and 10 medical
or postdoctoral fellows. Nine former students hold faculty
appointments in Ontario universities.
Dr. Cunningham was the driving force in the formation
of the Centre for Activity and Ageing. In respect of
his early work and extensive contributions in the area
of exercise and ageing, Dr. Cunningham is the choice
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