Carol Garber, Ph.D., FAHA, FACSM, FNAK, FCEPA, RCEP, ACSM-CEP, ACSM-EP-C

Carol Ewing Garber is Professor of Kinesiology and Movement Sciences and Education in the Department of Biobehavioral Sciences at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she also serves as the Director the Applied (Exercise) Physiology Laboratory and Director of the EXerT Clinic for Exercise Prescription. She has served as the Director of the Graduate Program of Applied (Exercise) Physiology for 17 years. Formerly, she served on the faculty of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University and the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University She earned the BS with Distinction in Education (1975), and the M.A. (1983) and Ph.D. (1990) in Exercise Physiology from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. She is Treasurer and a Past President of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). She is a Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist, and her research and clinical practice focuses on the benefits of movement and exercise in the prevention and treatment of a wide array of chronic diseases and conditions (physical and mental health) across the lifespan. She has over 150 scientific publications. She is lead author of the current (2011) American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Position Stand, “Quantity and quality of exercise for developing and maintaining cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal, and neuromotor fitness in apparently healthy adults: guidance for prescribing exercise” and a co-author of the previous 1998 ACSM position stand on the same topic. She is also the author of the chapters on exercise prescription in three editions (8-10th editions) of the internationally-renown publication, “ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription”. She is the senior author of the ACSM consensus paper, entitled, “Updating ACSM's Recommendations for Exercise Preparticipation Health Screening”, and senior author on an upcoming ACSM consensus paper, “Updating ACSM's Recommendations for Exercise Preparticipation Health Screening”.