Kinesiology professor Kevin Ballard has made a significant contribution to the field with his co-authorship of a textbook chapter titled "Considerations for Exercise in Stressful Environments: Hot, Cold, High Altitude, and Polluted Air." The chapter, co-written with M.S. Ganio, is featured in the second edition of "ACSM’s Clinical Exercise Physiology," edited by W.R. Thompson and published by Wolters Kluwer. Reflecting the unsurpassed quality and excellence synonymous with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), ACSM’s Clinical Exercise Physiology, second edition, provides an evidence-based approach to exercise as intervention for more than 35 conditions commonly encountered in practice — from a host of cardiovascular disorders to immunological/hematological disorders.

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