Charles E. Taylor Professor
of Health and Exercise Science
Reynolds Gymnasium, 303
Email: ribisl@wfu.edu
Phone: 336-758-5855
Dr. Paul M. Ribisl, Charles E. Taylor Professor of Health and Exercise Science at Wake Forest University, is an exercise physiologist who was a co-founder of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program at Wake Forest University, which he directed from 1975-1991. Dr. Ribisl also chaired the Department of Health and Exercise Science from 1991-2007.
His areas of research are:
- Graded exercise testing in the diagnosis and prognosis of coronary
heart disease,
- Exercise programming and prescription for patients with chronic
degenerative diseases, including obesity and type 2 diabetes,
- Measurement of physical activity and energy expenditure.
Dr. Ribisl was currently involved in a national multi-center NHLBI trial entitled "LOOK AHEAD: A Diet and Physical Activity Intervention in Obese Diabetics". He is also currently a Co-Investigator on an NIH grant
entitled: CHANGE: An Intervention to Increase Exercise Maintenance at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic.
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Dr. Paul Ribisl named the winner of the Schoonmaker Faculty Prize for Community Service >>
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