Jonathan K. Ehrman, PhD, FACSM, is associate program director of preventive cardiology and director of the weight management program at HenryFordHospital in Detroit. He has a 22-year background in clinical exercise physiology and is certified as an ACSM clinical exercise specialist and program director. He recently served for three years as the chair of the exercise specialist credentialing committee for ACSM and is currently a member at large of the credentialing board.

Dr. Ehrman is an author of over 100 manuscripts and abstracts, four books and chapters, and is senior editor of the sixth edition of ACSM’s Resource Manual for Guidelines for Graded Exercise Testing and Training. He is a fellow of the AmericanCollege of Sports Medicine and a member of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, and the American Heart Association. Dr. Ehrman earned his PhD in clinical exercise physiology from The Ohio State University in Columbus.

Paul M. Gordon, PhD, MPH, FACSM, is an ACSM clinical exercise specialist and director of the Laboratory for Physical Activity and Health Related Research in the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has 15 years of teaching experience in clinical exercise physiology curricula and has directed several cardiopulmonary rehabilitation programs. Dr. Gordon has served as an examiner and coordinator for the ACSM exercise specialist certification and is a contributing author for the ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription.

Dr. Gordon is an AmericanCollege of Sports Medicine fellow, a fellow of the Centers for Disease Control Physical Activity Research Program, and a National Institutes for Health Study Section member. He earned his PhD in exercise physiology and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh.

Paul S. Visich, PhD, MPH, has more than 14 years of experience in clinical exercise physiology and is the director of the Human Performance Laboratory in the College of Health Professions at CentralMichiganUniversity. He worked 12 years in a clinical setting that included cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation and primary disease prevention. His research interests involve the assessment of cardiovascular disease risk factors in children, the influence of resistance training in elderly populations, and altitude physiology.

Dr. Visich is a member of the Registered Clinical Exercise Physiology Committee and previous chair for the Professional Education Committee for the AmericanCollege of Sports Medicine. He is the author of more than 70 published scientific articles and abstracts. He earned a PhD in exercise physiology and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh.

Steven J. Keteyian, PhD, FACSM, has more than 30 years of experience working as a clinical exercise physiologist. He is program director of preventive cardiology at the HenryFordHospital in Detroit. Over the course of his career, Dr. Keteyian has focused on exercise, physical activity, and health in both healthy individuals and those with chronic diseases. He is the author of more than 55 scientific articles and chapters in books and four textbooks.

“This is an essential book for clinical exercise physiology students and is an important reference for professionals. In an improvement over the first edition, this edition enhances the delivery of the content and provides resources for educators such as a test bank and presentation package.”

--Doody’s Book Review