PhD Student Wins IFESS Vodovnic Award
Friday 21 September 2012
Robin Gibbons (right) conducting a test on the FES rower.
Robin Gibbons, PhD student in exercise physiology, was awarded the $500 1st prize in the recent International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society’s (IFESS) prestigious Vodovnic Award scheme. This comes after his recent success at this year's BASES Student Conference. Robin’s poster focused on cardiorespiratory heath following a programme of functional electrical stimulation (FES) rowing, a novel form of high intensity exercise designed to mediate the risk of cardiovascular disease in persons with spinal cord injury. This year’s IFESS Conference was held in Banff, Canada. Click here to view the winning poster.
