Michael E. Bodner, Ph.d.

Biography

Michael joined the School of Human Kinetics in 2002. His academic and research interests span the fields of exercise physiology and health promotion/health behavior change. His earlier research focused on using heart rate to assess critical training thresholds for endurance performance. Presently his research interests focus on health behavior change as a clinical competency in health care, including the role that physical therapists have with providing smoking cessation counseling to their patients. In 2011-2012 Michael was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Cancer Prevention, Detection, and Control Research Program (Duke Cancer Institute) at Duke University as part of a research team that assessed physician communication of health messages to overweight/obese patients and weight loss outcomes.  Michael also has had extensive experience with physical performance testing of Olympic and professional athletes, most notably the NHL Vancouver Canucks (1997-2013), Canadian Olympic Hockey Team (2006 Olympics Turin, Italy) and NBA Vancouver Grizzlies (1997-1998). Currently Michael is a Strategic Fellow in Rehabilitation Research in the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Quality of Life Training Program. His professional memberships include the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Canadian Physiotherapy Association and the American Physical Therapy Association.

Research Interest

Survey methodology, health promotion, smoking cessation, exercise physiology