Implications of Hydration Status to Be Topic of Lecture

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Michael Sawka

Michael N. Sawka, chief scientific officer of Environmental Physiology and Hydration Associates, will speak at noon Wednesday, April 9, in the Graduate Education Building auditorium, Room 166, on the University of Arkansas campus.

Sawka, who is also an adjunct professor of applied physiology at Georgia Institute of Technology, will give a lecture titled “Hydration: Physiological Consequences and Human Performance Implications.”

Lunch will be served after the lecture. RSVP is required by emailing to jxa014@uark.edu. Deadline to RSVP is April 4.

The lecture is part of the Hydration Lecture Series by the Human Performance Laboratory in the College of Education and Health Professions.

Sawka is an expert in environmental (heat, cold, high-altitude), fluid/electrolyte balance, exercise physiology, and rehabilitation medicine. Previously, he was chief of Thermal and Mountain Medicine at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (1996-2013) in Natick, Mass.

“Dr. Sawka was the scientist that wrote the National Nutritional Guidelines for Americans and the lead author for the American College of Sports Medicine guidelines on hydration and exercise performance,” said Stavros Kavouras, University of Arkansas assistant professor of exercise science who coordinates the lectures.

The lecture will be also webcast live between 11:50 a.m. and 1 p.m. (CST), and the recording will be available online the next day.

Sawka held a Department of Defense Science and Technology appointment from 2006 to 2013 and other scientific and faculty positions at institutions including Boston University, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, John B. Pierce Foundation at Yale University and Wright State University School of Medicine. He has published more than 300 full-length journal papers and book chapters and has edited graduate textbooks on environmental physiology and exercise physiology.

Sawka is an editorial board member for American Journal of Physiology, Comprehensive Physiology (environmental physiology editor), Journal of Applied Physiology (consulting editor), Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (associate editor-in-chief), and International Journal of Sports Medicine. He has served on many scientific panels and committees such as those for the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; National Institutes of Health; US Anti-Doping Agency; National Space and Biomedical Research Institute; Partnership for Clean Competition; and North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He received the Military Medical Merit Medallion in 2005, the American College of Sports Medicine Citation Award in 2010, and the Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 2012.