University of Rhode Island College of Health Sciences Dean Gary Liguori<\/a> has been appointed the inaugural editor-in-chief of Exercise, Sport, and Movement<\/em> (ESM<\/em>), the American College of Sports Medicine\u2019s<\/a> new open access journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to serving as dean of the College, Liguori is a professor of kinesiology and has led several national and global boards and councils, including ACSM\u2019s Publications Committee and Committee on Certification and Registry Boards, and as a mentor in the ACSM Leadership & Diversity Training program. He has edited several books, including the first edition of ACSM\u2019s<\/em> Health Fitness Specialist Resource Guide<\/em>, the fifth edition of the ACSM\u2019s Health-Related Fitness Assessment Manual<\/em>, and the 11th<\/sup> edition of ACSM\u2019s<\/em> Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription<\/em>. In addition, Dr. Liguori has been an editorial board member, column editor, and most recently the Associate Editor-in-Chief of ACSM\u2019s<\/em> Health and Fitness Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cESM<\/em> represents an exciting opportunity for ACSM in the realm of open-access journals,\u201d Liguori said. \u201cBeing chosen to launch this journal from scratch is a true honor, and we are well poised to create an outstanding journal. ESM<\/em> will be broad in its scope, but will absolutely uphold the well-deserved reputation for outstanding science that has been established by existing ACSM journals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ESM<\/em> is an international open access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on all aspects of exercise science and sports medicine. The scope of the journal is broad, encompassing scientific, clinical, public health, community and policy topics in all areas related to sports and exercise medicine, exercise-related physiology, nutrition, metabolism and physical fitness. Manuscripts addressing movement, fitness, exercise, physical activity, health promotion, sport, and prevention and treatment of injury and disease will be welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs the inaugural EIC for ESM<\/em>, Dr. Liguori has the unique opportunity to help build and shape this new journal into a destination for high-quality research in all areas of exercise science and sports medicine,\u201d the ACSM announcement reads. \u201cGiven his extensive publication history, broad research interests, and experience collaborating across disciplines, Dr. Liguori is well-suited to thrive in the role of EIC for ESM<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gary Liguori will launch and direct ACSM\u2019s \u2018Exercise, Sport, and Movement\u2019 University of Rhode Island College of Health Sciences Dean Gary Liguori has been appointed the inaugural editor-in-chief of Exercise, Sport, and Movement (ESM), the American College of Sports Medicine\u2019s new open access journal. In addition to serving as dean of the College, Liguori is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":8899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9694,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions\/9694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/chs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}