![]() ![]() ![]() How does your passion impact our community?īowersock: “I have been a lifelong proponent of exercise as medicine, and I feel that this passion reinforces the many hats I currently wear in my personal and professional life. Overseeing a retail running and walking store with almost 700 people in our training group following allows me to apply my physical activity-related degrees in helping our folks use exercise as medicine for fitness, stress, performance, weight management, self-esteem and many other variables which can impact your quality of life. My appointment at the medical school allows me to apply my dissertation research in a very practical way and teach future physicians how to prescribe physical activity for their patients but also for themselves and why it is important to do so in both cases. Both scenarios are incredibly meaningful to me: the store allows me to help people on a large group and individual level, and my work with the medical school is very special as VTC is one of only a handful of medical schools in the country who teach physical activity prescription in almost all levels of undergraduate medical education.A fundraising event benefiting survivors of brain injury through Brain Injury Services of Southwest Virginia. ![]()
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