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Our physical bodies are important to God, so shouldn’t they be important to us? Over the past two centuries there has been a shift in work culture and the amount of physical activity seen by our population. At one time we worked side-by-side with our parents and they taught us how to function in an agrarian society; but, with the industrial revolution there has been a decrease in parent to child teaching, and more learning is now achieved at schools. But, in recent years, there has been an emphasis on test scores and the preparation to achieve material success within the contemporary American society that has abridged the education of physical health. In public schools, Physical Education has been robbed of the “Education” and is now just “Physical” time – usually punctuated by running laps. How can we expect our children to have good physical health that aligns with their mental and spiritual health if nobody teaches them the right way? There is an epidemic of obesity, diabetes and heart disease that could be curtailed by early education to the youngest of our society. This presentation, entitled “Reinstating the E” will look at why the “Education” is important in PE class and why you should even care.

Meet the Presenter

Dr. Eric Edmonds is a Cambridge parent and faculty member at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego serving as the Director of Orthopedic Research, and sharing duties of Director for the 360 Sports medicine program. He is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopedics with the University of California San Diego were he is actively involved with the education of pediatric orthopaedic fellows, residents from UCSD, the Navy and the Air Force, and UCSD medical students.

After graduating from Carlsbad High School, he went on to earn a major in both Biology and Psychology at the Johns Hopkins University. He then matriculated into the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. He completed a general surgery internship at the UC Davis Medical center, and then went on to complete his orthopaedic residency at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Following residency, his training brought him back to Southern California, were he then successfully completed the Pediatric Orthopedic and Scoliosis Fellowship at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego, followed by a sabbatical in sports medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Southern California Kaiser Permanente, San Diego.

He is one of two fellowship trained children’s orthopaedic surgeons with subspecialty certification in sports medicine from the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery in San Diego, Imperial, Riverside and Orange Counties.

His clinical interests include youth sports medicine and musculoskeletal trauma. Current research involves adolescent shoulder and knee injuries as well as ankle injuries and fracture treatment. He actively participates in many multi-center research teams, including the ROCK (Research of Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Knee). He has received multiple research awards including the Provost Undergraduate Award for Research and Excellence from the Johns Hopkins University and the distinguished St Giles Young Investigator Award from the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America.

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