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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Leadership and service in health education and promotion has earned an Oregon State University professor recognition as Health Educator of the Year from the Oregon Association for Health Education.

Brad Cardinal, OSU associate professor in the College of Health and Human Sciences Department of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences, was honored at the association's annual fall conference in Eugene.

Cardinal specializes in the psycho-social perspective of physical activity. He received a certificate of appreciation earlier this year for his six years of service as psychology section editor of the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, Research Consortium.

His service also earned Cardinal the College and University Professional of the Year Award for 2005 from the Northwest District of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

In presenting Cardinal with Health Educator of the Year honors, the Oregon Association for Health Education cited his leadership in developing, implementing and coordinating effective health education and promotion programs, as well as his service to professional organizations.

Cardinal is president of the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and associate editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Health Promotion.

Cardinal also made more than a dozen presentations on sports psychology, physical fitness an