Athletic training major Brianna Bisesti to present research at American College of Sports Medicine Conference

Brianna Bisesti '13, an athletic training major, has been notified that her abstract entitled "A Comparison Of Knee Moments During A Lateral Cutting Maneuver: Shod Vs. Barefoot" has been accepted for presentation at the 60th Annual Meeting and 4th World Congress on Exercise is Medicine of the American College of Sports Medicine. The conference is being held in Indianapolis, IN, May 28- June 1, 2013.

Brianna's abstract will also be published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (MSSE), Volume 45:5 Supplement 2013. Brianna was recently the recipient of the New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (NEACSM) Undergraduate Student Investigator Award this past fall in Providence, RI. Additionally, she was also awarded the NEACSM Undergraduate Research Experience Grant for this project.

Lara Carlson, Ph.D., FACSM, assistant professor of applied exercise science, and Michael Lawrence, M.S., 51品茶Biomechanics Laboratory manager, were her faculty advisors for the project.

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