Dr. Einat Kodesh

Email: ekodesh@gmail.com

Affiliation Faculty / Department: Physical Therapy

Academic Background: *Zinman College for Physical Education & Sport Wingate Institute , Israel . B.Ed, Specialization in cardiac rehabilitation 1984-1988 Physical education *Tel Aviv University, Department of Physiology, Israel. MSc 1992-1995 Thesis: “Immune response to exercise among gymnasts and untrained girls and among female judoka and untrained subjects” *Tel Aviv University, Department of Physiotherapy, Israel B.P.T 1994-1998 Physiotherapy *The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Department of Physiology Israel. PhD 2003-2007 Dissertation: “Combined heat acclimation and exercise training: Molecular and physiological adaptation in cardiac and Soleus muscles” University of California Irvine Pediatric department. *Post-doctoral fellowship: Professor Dan M. Copper Director of the institute for Clinical Translational Science.US 2007-2008. Exercise induced asthma

Research Interests: My main field of research is physical activity in healthy individuals as well as in the medically compromised. In the Physical Therapy Department (my current position) I have focused on human performance (young and older adults, athletes and disabled individuals) with different exercise requirements. My laboratory is equipped with advanced instruments to monitor and measure metabolic, cardio-pulmonary, and kinematic variables. The combination of my training as a physiotherapist and my expertise in the field of exercise physiology enabled me to address the relationship between the metabolic cost of mechanical and cognitive loads.

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