PI at PROFITH/UGR: Francisco B Ortega
Contact: ortegaf@ugr.es
Network Coordinator: Ross Arena at College of Applied Sciences, University of Illinois, USA.
Email: raarena@uic.edu
Summary
Promoting Human Resilience and Quality of Life
The overarching goal of the Healthy Living for Pandemic Event Protection (HL- PIVOT) network is to promote human resilience and quality of life by increasing healthy living behaviors. While certainly different from the health crisis induced by COVID-19, we have been living with several other significant health conditions that continue to have catastrophic effects on a global scale. In fact, obesity, physical inactivity, diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) (e.g., cardiovascular disease, certain forms of cancer, respiratory disease) have all been characterized as pandemics.
HL-PIVOT Network
A change in optics and a new approach for collaboration are primary driving forces for inception of the HL-PIVOT network. Healthy living has previously been described as a polypill that can come in many “shapes and sizes” and still have tremendous benefit. Moreover, the healthy living polypill is an essential medicine for all the pandemics described in this commentary, no other medicine in the world can claim to have the same impact in treating multiple health conditions at the same time. Given the universal nature of HL medicine, working collaboratively, across professions in an unprecedented way, is warranted and the only way a meaningful impact on global health can be made at this point.
Initially, founding HL-PIVOT network members will be encouraged to bring ongoing healthy living projects/initiatives under the HL-PIVOT umbrella. Subsequently, we intend to globally expand the network and facilitate future projects/initiatives in all areas — including knowledge discovery, education, policy, and implementation — to consider collaboration within the HL-PIVOT network.
It is our hope that a unified voice, promoting healthy living on a global scale, will greatly move the field forward and translate to meaningful improvements in healthy living behaviors.
Network Partners
Founding members of the HL-PIVOT Network
(sorted alphabetically by surnames)
- Antonio Abbate, MD, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Gopala Krishna Alaparthi, PhD, PT, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- Leslie D. Austford, MN, MBA, CMPE, TotalCardiology Research Network, and TotalCardiology™, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Robert S. Axtell, PhD, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Abraham Samuel Babu, PhD, PT, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India Simon L. Bacon, PhD, FTOS, FCCS, FABMR, Concordia University and CIUSSS-NIM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- James R. Bagley, PhD, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA.
- Kathy Berra, MSN, NP-BC, FAANP, FPCNA, FAHA, FAAN, The LifeCare Company, Redwood City, California and Stanford University, Menlo Park, California, USA
- Jarett D. Berry, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
- Samantha Bond, MS, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Sandra A Billinger, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
- Audrey Borghi-Silva, PhD, PT, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Harry Brar, POWERbreathe International Ltd, Warwickshire, UK
- Patrice Brassard, PhD, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- Peter H. Brubaker PhD, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
- Paolo Brugnoli, CosMed, Inc., Rome, Italy
- Marco Brugnoli, CosMed, Inc., Rome, Italy
- Tavis S. Campbell, PhD, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Salvatore Carbone, PhD, MS, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Kalyana Chakravarthy B, PhD, PT, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Cabrera-Lazarini, MBA, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Monterrey, Mexico
- Paul J. Chase, PhD, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
- Sundeep Chaudhry, MD, MET-TEST, Roswell, Georgia, USA
- Jeffrey W Christle, PhD, CEP, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Andrew J Stewart Coats, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
- Naama W. Constantini, MD, DFM, FACSM, Heidi Rothberg Sport Medicine Center, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
- Jeff S. Coombes, PhD, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Andréa Lúcia Gonçalves da Silva, PhD, PT, University of Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil
- Luiz Carlos Soares de Carvalho Junior, PhD, PT, Federal University of Recôncavo of Bahia, Cruz das Almas, Bahia, Brazil
- Mildred Vanessa López Cabrera, PhD, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Monterrey, Mexico
- Victor Zuniga Dourado, PhD, PT, Federal University of São Paulo, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
- Daniela Bassi Dibai, PhD, PT, Ceuma University, São Luís, Brazil
- Snehil Dixit, PhD, PT, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
- Victor Zuniga Dourado, PhD, PT, Federal University of São Paulo, Santos, SP, Brazil
- Brandon Dykstra, PhD, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, USA
- Patrick Dunn, PhD, American Heart Association and Walden University, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Diane Eastabrook, Freelance Journalist, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Barry A. Franklin, PhD, Beaumont Health, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
- Sherry L. Grace, PhD, York University & University Health Network, Toronto, Canada and International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, Markham, Ontario, Canada
- Gregory J. Grosicki, PhD, Georgia Southern University (Armstrong Campus), Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Solange Guizilini, PhD, PT, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Grenita Hall, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Matthew P. Harber, PhD, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA
- Erik Hayes, PhD, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, USA
- A. E. Headley, PhD, FACSM, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
- John P. Heybach, PhD, Altus Academy, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Andrew P. Hills, PhD, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia
- Anne E Holland PhD, PT, Monash University and Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia
- Panniyammakal Jeemon, Ph.D, MPH, FESC, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
- Richard A Josephson, MS, MD, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Leonard A. Kaminsky, PhD, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA
- Bradley Kendall, PhD, CSCS, Taylor University, Upland, Indiana, USA
- Aditya Khetan, MD, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Peter Kokkinos, PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, and Veterans Affairs Medical Center Washington, DC, USA
- Deepika R. Laddu, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Jari Laukkanen, MD, PhD, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, Lavoie, Ph.D., FCPA, FABMR, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Gregory D. Lewis, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Andrew T. Lovering, PhD, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Sara Maldonado-Martín, PhD, Department of Physical Education and Sports, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Basque Country, Spain
- Susan Marzolini, RKin, PhD, KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation and University Health Network, Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Program, Toronto, Canada
- Norman Morris, PhD, PT, Griffith University and Metro North Hospital and Health Service, The Prince Charles Hospital, Queensland, Australia
- Jonathan Myers, PhD, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
- Jagat Narula, MD, PhD, Mount Sinai Heart, New York, New York, USA
- Javaid Nauman, PhD, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Josef Niebauer, MD, PhD, MBA, Institute of Sports Medicine, Prevention and Rehabilitation, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
- James H. O’Keefe, MD, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas, USA
- Silvia Lizett Olivares Olivars, PhD, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Monterrey, Mexico
- Francisco B. Ortega, PhD, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
- Cemal Ozemek, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Ambarish Pandey, MD, MSCS, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,Dallas, Texas, USA
- James E. Peterman, PhD, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA
- Shane A. Phillips, PhD, PT, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Dejana Popovic, MD, PhD, Clinic for Cardiology, Clinical Center of Serbia, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
- Axel Pressler, MD, PhD, FESC, Private Center of Sports Cardiology & Prevention, Munich, Germany
- Nicolaas P. Pronk, PhD, MA, HealthPartners Institute, Bloomington, Minnesota, and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Chathuranga Ranasinghe MBBS, D.Sp.Med, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri LankaMollie Rose, BS, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Robert Ross, PhD, RKin, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Michel Silva Reis, PhD, PT, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Fabrizio Ricci, MD, PhD, FEACVI, G.d’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy
- Daniel S. Rubin, M.D., M.S., University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Ahmad Sabbahi, PT, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA and Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
- Patrick Savage, MS, University of Vermont Medical Center, Cardiac Rehabilitation Program, South Burlington, Vermont, USA
- Richard Severin, PT, DPT, CCS, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois and Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA
- Dorthe Stensvold, PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Lindsey Strieter, MS, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Xing Guo Sun, MD, Beijing Fuwai Hospital National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China
- Renata Trimer, PhD, PT, University of Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil
- Jean-Luc Vachiery, MD, Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles-Hôpital, Brussels, Belgium
- Laurie P. Whitsel, PhD, Ligonier, Pennsylvania, USA
- Mark A. Williams, PhD, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- Ulrik Wisløff, PhD, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, and School of Human Movement and Nutrition Science, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia.
Funding
This network does not have funding for the whole network, but rather, every partner contributes with its own funds.
Relevant information
Infografía resumen de Red HL-PIVOT:
Bond, S., Arena, R., Berra, K., Popovic, D., Smirmaul, B. P. C., & Ortega, F. B. (2020). Introducing the HL-PIVOT network: Promoting human resilience and quality of life through healthy living initiatives. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, 40(6), 356–358.https://doi.org/10.1097/HCR.0000000000000555
