Mikko Tulppo (Finland)

Session

Focused symposium:  Future Trends in Cardiac Rehabilitation (Speaker)

Biography

Mikko Tulppo received MSc degree in exercise physiology in 1994 from University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and the Ph.D. degree in 1999 from the University of Oulu, Finland. He did his post-doctoral training in University of Waterloo, Canada (1999-2000) and he was as a Academy Research Fellow of Finland (2001-2003). Currently he is serving as an adjunct professor of exercise physiology at the Department of Internal Medicine of the University of Oulu and Director of Department of Exercise and Medical Physiology, Verve, Oulu, Finland. His research career covers 50 internationally published original and review articles in peer review journals and 91 international conference abstracts. He has been invited lecture in various conferences in the area of exercise sciences all over the world. Current research focus is the acute effects of exercise on autonomic regulation and chronic changes in autonomic nervous system after exercise intervention in healthy subjects and cardiac patients. At the moment he is leading one of the largest highly controlled exercise training intervention for cardiac patients in the world including 400 patients.

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