Presentation on the contributions of African Americans to the field of exercise science
Ochosi is a keen advocate of equal opportunity rights, particularly in academia, sport and aviation, as well as in other contentious areas where the achievement gap between minorities and nonminority members is tangible. He is particularly concerned about differences between equally or more talented minorities and the extra hurdles they may face in achieving academic tenure, promotions, awards or leading executive positions, and about the disproportionate stigmatization of minority members in the United States through excessive incarceration numbers and other professionally disabling incidents.
Ochosi is a reproductive endocrinologist, exercise physiologist and sports physician. He holds professional certifications in electrocardiography, advanced cardiac life support and medical sexology, and he is an accredited American College of Sports Medicine Team physician.
In addition to his biomedical qualifications, he holds an master's in Asian Linguistics and History, which illustrates his wide cultural and liberal arts. He is also certified as an airline pilot and speaks seven languages fluently, among which are Japanese and Chinese. He has previously fulfilled guest professorships at the Universities of Coimbra (Portugal), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Kyoto (Japan). Ochosi is currently with the Department of Exercise Science at the University of Puget Sound. He has a rich cultural experience having lived in nine different countries throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
Ochosi is a previous elite athlete in track and field (100- & 200-meter sprint) and in judo, the latter in which he holds the high rank of black-belt seventh dan. He is an A-Certified Olympic Judo Coach and international referee.
Ochosi's doctoral work was on exercise-related menstrual cycles in female athletes, an area that remains his major research focus. Currently, Ochosi and colleagues are seeking to understand the changes that take place in estrogen metabolism, in particularly C2- and C4-substituted estrogens, in response to exercise in the female. To do so, he uses techniques such as immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridization, mostly in a multi-center research setting. This work has implications for our understanding of menstrual problems and the prevention of osteoporosis and breast cancer. He is also renowned for his scholarly work on the role of homocysteine in cardiovascular metabolism and his pedagogical, philosophical, historical and technical scholarly work and expertise in Japanese martial arts. His work has been published in journals such as The Lancet, Sterility & Fertility, the Journal of Applied Physiology, the Journal of Endocrinology & Metabolism, and Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
For more information, contact the department of human performance studies, at 978-3340 or jeremy.patterson@wichita.edu.