NFL Charities awards $124,000 to USF

[NAM37]

NFL Charities, the charitable foundation of the National Football League, awarded $1.5 million in grants to support sports-related medical research at 11 organizations.

The grants include a $124,000 award to the University of South Florida College of Medicine toward a study on heat stress risks, a release said.

The grant was awarded to Dr. Eric Coris, associate professor and director of primary care sports medicine. He will use the funding to study the prevention and treatment of heat stress among athletes.

Coris will be collaborating with Dr. Douglass Casa from the University of Connecticut and Dr. Ollie Jay from the University of Ottawa in Canada during the course of his research, which will begin in spring 2010.

The researchers will build on previous studies evaluating how to predict which players are at most risk for heat illness. They will monitor players' core internal temperatures with a "heat pill," an ingestible thermometer the size of a large multivitamin, and fit players with high-tech masks to measure their oxygen consumption during practice drills. They will assess how the body physiologically reacts to high-intensity exercise under high heat and humidity on the football field.

It is the third consecutive NFL Charities research award won by Coris. He has received a total of more than $272,000 in funding from the foundation since 2004.

USF was the only Florida institution to receive a grant this year from NFL Charities, the release said.

http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2009/12/07/daily28.html

[E.T.]

DINING HALL !!!

;D

[nobull.Bulls]

Thats not dining hall money, thats research money thatll probably get eaten up in 3 months

[Dogma]

NFL Charities, the charitable foundation of the National Football League, awarded $1.5 million in grants to support sports-related medical research at 11 organizations.

The grants include a $124,000 award to the University of South Florida College of Medicine toward a study on heat stress risks, a release said.

The grant was awarded to Dr. Eric Coris, associate professor and director of primary care sports medicine. He will use the funding to study the prevention and treatment of heat stress among athletes.

Coris will be collaborating with Dr. Douglass Casa from the University of Connecticut and Dr. Ollie Jay from the University of Ottawa in Canada during the course of his research, which will begin in spring 2010.

The researchers will build on previous studies evaluating how to predict which players are at most risk for heat illness. They will monitor players' core internal temperatures with a "heat pill," an ingestible thermometer the size of a large multivitamin, and fit players with high-tech masks to measure their oxygen consumption during practice drills. They will assess how the body physiologically reacts to high-intensity exercise under high heat and humidity on the football field.

It is the third consecutive NFL Charities research award won by Coris. He has received a total of more than $272,000 in funding from the foundation since 2004.

USF was the only Florida institution to receive a grant this year from NFL Charities, the release said.

http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2009/12/07/daily28.html

:clap

[CousinRicky]

If you are studying heat stress, why do you team up with Conn and Ottawa?  Seems like Phoenix and Texas would be better. 

[Guest nybullsfan]

my thoughts exactly

maybe they're looking at how fl weather affects northern athletes?

or maybe we can tap into that money for flights to toronto? LOL