{"id":4320,"date":"2019-04-02T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2019-04-02T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T20:46:17","slug":"american-college-of-sports-medicine-announces-departure-of-longtime-ceo-jim-whitehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/american-college-of-sports-medicine-announces-departure-of-longtime-ceo-jim-whitehead\/","title":{"rendered":"American College of Sports Medicine Announces Departure of Longtime CEO Jim Whitehead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-300x88.png\" alt=\"American College of Sports Medicine\" width=\"300\" height=\"88\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-300x88.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-200x59.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine-800x236.png 800w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/American-College-of-Sports-Medicine.png 851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>American College of Sports Medicine<\/p>\n<p><strong>INDIANAPOLIS, IN<\/strong> &#8211; The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has announced the departure of CEO Jim Whitehead, who accepted a new leadership position after 29 years of distinguished service as head of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim Whitehead brought an ambitious vision to ACSM and, because of his leadership, we saw that vision fulfilled,\u201d said ACSM President Kathryn Schmitz, Ph.D., MPH, FACSM. \u201cDuring his tenure, ACSM has become an influential leader and the world\u2019s largest sports medicine and exercise science organization. We are grateful for his many contributions, and we wish him well in his new endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the organization\u2019s top executive, Whitehead led ACSM\u2019s strategic and global expansion over the last three decades, including unprecedented membership and certification growth, health and science policy efforts, a successful capital campaign, major partnerships and sponsorships, and the launch of strategic health initiatives such as Exercise is Medicine\u00ae, the American Fitness Index\u00ae and ActivEarth.<\/p>\n<p>An executive search process is underway, and ACSM Chief Financial and Operating Officer, Tim Calvert, has been named interim CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>INDIANAPOLIS, IN<\/strong> &#8211; The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has announced the departure of CEO Jim Whitehead, who accepted a new leadership position after 29 years of distinguished service as head of the organization. An executive search process is underway, and ACSM Chief Financial and Operating Officer, Tim Calvert, has been named interim CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4321,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions\/4321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}