Cedric Bryant, MD

Dr. Cedric X. Bryant serves as president and chief science officer of the American Council on Exercise (ACE), where he develops strategies to deliver exercise-science and behavior-change education in ways that are engaging and compelling, recruits more people to become exercise professionals and health coaches, and equips them for growth in their respective fields. He leads ACE’s exploration of how their science-based programs and interventions appropriately integrate into healthcare and public health. Bryant also represents ACE by serving on the advisory boards and committees for several highly respected public health organizations, including the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Bryant has written well over 300 articles or columns in fitness trade magazines, as well peer-reviewed sports medicine and exercise science journals, and authored, co-authored or edited more than 40 books. He is often cited as a subject-matter expert for health and fitness articles in a variety of respected national media outlets, including USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Consumer Reports and more. Bryant has served on the editorial board or as a regular contributor for several publications, including Arthritis Today, Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, The Physician and Sportsmedicine, U.S. News & World Reports and Women’s Health. Bryant has also held academic appointments on the exercise science faculties at several leading institutions, including the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Pennsylvania State University and Arizona State University. Bryant earned both his doctorate in physiology and master's degree in exercise science from Pennsylvania State University, where he received Pennsylvania State University’s Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor presented to its alumni. As a community leader, Bryant has shared his knowledge of exercise science and athletics as a youth sports coach in baseball, basketball and soccer. In his free time, Bryant enjoys golfing, playing pickleball and working out.

I-Min Lee, MBBS, MPH, ScD, FACSM 

I-Min Lee, MBBS, MPH, ScD, FACSM is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  She was born and educated in Malaysia, received her medical degree from the National University of Singapore, and her MPH and ScD degrees at the Harvard School of Public Health.  Her primary research interest is in the role of physical activity for promoting health and well-being.  She is Principal Investigator of one of the first large-scale epidemiologic studies using accelerometers to measure physical activity and sedentary behavior among 18,000 participants in the Women’s Health Study from 2011 to 2015, who are currently being followed for health outcomes. Using these data, she was one of the first investigators to question whether the conventionally accepted “10,000 steps/day” is necessary for health (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/06/well/move/10000-steps-health.html).

She has published more than 600 scientific articles and has been named on the Highly Cited Researchers list by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) for publications ranking in the top 1% most cited in the field for 2018, and each year since 2020.  A seminal paper with world-wide collaborators published by the Lancet in 2012 that estimated the impact of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases has been highly influential in the field, being cited more than 12,000 times to date.  She is editor or co-editor of physical activity epidemiology textbooks that have been translated into the Korean and Chinese languages. She has served on national and international expert panels developing physical activity guidelines including the inaugural 2008 US Physical Activity Guidelines, the 2010 WHO Global Recommendations on Physical Activity for Health, and the 2013 AHA/ACC Guideline on Lifestyle Management to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk.