Speakers
Victor Keihan Rodrigues Matsudo, MD is a physician with specialty training in
orthopedics, traumatology, and sports medi-
cine. Dr. Matsudo is a Professor of Medicine
with the University Gama Filho in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. Since 1974 he has been associated with
and is the current President of Physical Fit-
ness Research at the Center of São Caetano do
Sul – CELAFISCS, where he also serves as the
Director of Biologic Science in the Municipal
Institute of Education - IMES – São Caetano do
Sul - São Paulo. He is the 1992 winner of the
Olympic International Prize in Sports Medicine
awarded at the time of the Barcelona Olympics.
In 1995 he was the winner of the International
“Philip Noël Baker ” award in Sports Medicine
and in 1996 the winner of the International
Prince Faisal Prize of the International
Federation of Physical Education.
Michael Pratt, MD, MPH, directs CDC’s
World Health Organization Collaborating Center
for Physical Activity and Health Promotion,
and coordinates physical activity research as the
leader for the research and development team
within the Physical Activity and Health Branch
at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Kenneth E. Powell, MD, MPH, is a public
health and epidemiologic consultant in Atlanta,
Georgia. He also is a member of the Physical
Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee for the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
He was an epidemiologist with the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention for 25 years and
with the Georgia Department of Human
Resources for nearly 8 years.
Andrea Torres, CPT (DPT equivalent) is a
certified physical therapist, specializing in physi-
cal activity and health from Bogotá, Colombia.
She started working in physical activity promo-
tion and public health in 2003 with a physical
activity promotion program called Muevete
Bogotá, designing and implementing interven-
tions in 4 settings: schools, community, health
care, and work sites, as well as promoting social
mobilization through large community-wide
events. Since 2006 she has been working with
the Physical Activity and Health Branch of the
CDC as a program coordinator.
Gregory W. Heath, DHSc, MPH is Guerry
Professor and Head of the Department of Health
and Human Performance at the University of
Tennessee at Chattanooga and Director of
Research at the University of Tennessee
College of Medicine, Chattanooga. He was
formally a Lead Health Scientist with the
Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity at
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) where he served for over 20 years.
His training is in physiology, nutrition, and
epidemiology.
