VALDOSTA STATE MAGAZINE 73 Exercise is Medicine at the CEMR Dr. Peggy Moch went into an operating room at the end of 2015, where surgeons cut into her leg and sawed off the bottom of her femur and the top of her tibia. They joined the two bones together with metal caps and an artificial hinge. It was a full knee replacement — and that was only her right knee. Moch, a professor of mathematics at Valdosta State University, had experienced pain in both knees for WRITTEN BY JOHN STEPHEN PHOTOS BY PAUL LEAVY VSU CHANGES THE FACE OF HIGHER LEARNING BY ENCOURAGING FACULTY, STUDENTS TO CHANGE LIVES