Sheila Forshaw, Executive Officer, Sport and Recreation

(416)736-2100 ext. 22845, sforshaw@yorku.ca 

• Forshaw played field hockey at the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988. A member of the 1980 team that boycotted the Moscow Olympics.

Cindy Hughes, Head Athletic Therapist/Manager, Sport Injury Clinic

(416)736-2100 ext. 77232, chughes@yorku.ca

• Hughes was chief therapist for the Canadian Olympic team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and a member of the Canadian medical team for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games.

Hernán E. Humaña, School of Kinesiology & Health Science/Head Coach Women's Volleyball

(416)736-2100 x 66910, hhumana@yorku.ca,

• Humaña is a three-time coach of the Canadian Men’s beach volleyball team at the 1992, 1996, and 2000 Olympic Games. He also teaches a third-year course, “Politics of the Olympic Games,” an historical and political overview of the modern Olympic Games.

Patricia Murray, Former York Athletic Director, Associate Lecturer, School of Kinesiology & Health Science

(416)736-2100 x 55469, pmurray@yorku.ca

• Murray attended six Olympic Games as a coach and administrator for synchronized swimming. She is a former Vice President of the Canadian Olympic Committee.

Joe Baker, School of Kinesiology & Health Science

(416) 736 2100 ext. 22361, bakerj@yorku.ca

• Athlete training and development, psychological stress associated with performance.

Olivier Birot, School of Kinesiology & Health Science

(416) 736-2100 ext. 44043, birot@yorku.ca

• Adaptation of the human body to altitude, blood doping, EPO. 

Mazyar Fallah, School of Kinesiology & Health Science, Centre for Vision Research

(416) 736-2100 ext. 20555, mfallah@yorku.ca

• Vision, attention, perception, reaction times, eye movements, systems neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience.

Frances Flint, School of Kinesiology & Health Science

(416)736-2100 ext. 77321, fflint@yorku.ca

• Physical or psychological aspects of injury, psychological aspects of performance, sports medicine (not performance-enhancing drugs or doping).
• Previous experience with Olympic Games in Barcelona and four Pan Am Games teams.

Jessica Fraser-Thomas, School of Kinesiology & Health Science

(416) 736-2100 ext. 20952, jft@yorku.ca

• Sport psychology, youth sport, sport pedagogy.

Cindy Hughes, Head Athletic Therapist/Manager, Sport Injury Clinic

(416)736-2100 ext. 77232, chughes@yorku.ca

• Sports injuries.

Ira Jacobs, Chair, School of Kinesiology & Health Science

(416)736-2100 ext. 21088, ijacobs@yorku.ca

• Physiology of exercise, performance-enhancing drugs, nutritional strategies to enhance performance, muscle strength, heat stress. 

Lauren Sergio, School of Kinesiology & Health Science

(416)736-2100 ext. 33641, lsergio@yorku.ca

• Brain control of limb movements, eye-limb coordination (i.e. racquet sports, ball sports etc.).

Russell Belk, Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing, Schulich School of Business

(416)736-2100 x 20852, rbelk@schulich.yorku.ca

• Virtual consumption in China, global consumer ethics, skin colour and beauty in Asia, celebrity in China i.e. Yao Ming.

Michael Copeland, Professor emeritus, Economics

(416)736-2100 x 33626,  michael-copeland@rogers.com

• Tibet-China relations, Xinjiang (East Turkestan) and the Uighur people.    

Joshua Fogel, Canada Research Chair in the History of Modern China

(416)736-2100 ext. 30420, fogel@yorku.ca

• History of modern China.

Bernie Frolic, Director, Asia Business Management Program, York Centre for Asian Research

(416)736-2100 ext. 88821, fogel@yorku.ca

• Chinese foreign policy, Canada-China relations, democracy, human rights, civil society, modernization and urbanization, state-led civil society, transitions to democracy after the Cold War, Russia-China relations.

Joan Judge, Division of Humanities, Faculty of Arts

(416)736-2100 ext. 20593, judge@yorku.ca

• Modern Chinese cultural history; gender in modern China; women and the family in East Asia.

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Alan Middleton, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Schulich School of Business.

(416)736-2100 ext. 33180, amiddleton@schulich.yorku.ca

• Business, economic development and politics in contemporary Chinese society.

Bernie Wolf, Schulich School of Business

 (416)736-2100 ext. 77933, bwolf@schulich.yorku.ca

• Role of China in the world economy.     

Frank Cosentino, Professor Emeritus and York senior scholar in the history of sport.

• History of the Olympic Games.

Hernán E. Humaña, School of Kinesiology & Health Science /Head Coach Women's Volleyball

(416)736-2100 x 66910, hhumana@yorku.ca

• Humaña teaches a third-year course, “Politics of the Olympic Games,” an historical and political overview of the modern Olympic Games.  He is also a three-time coach of the Canadian Men’s beach volleyball team at the 1992, 1996, 2000 Olympic Games.

**For assistance in scheduling individual experts, please contact:

Killeen Kelly

Media Relations, York University

phone: 416-736-2100, ext. 22938

killeenk@yorku.ca