2001
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2009 Presenter Michael Dolan MS, ATC
Do Current Management Practices for Sprained Ankles Hasten Recovery?
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2008 Presenter Erik Swartz PhD, ATC
Management of Cervical Spine Injuries: Sensitivity, Efficiency, and Controversy
2007 Jay Hertel, PhD, ATC and Thomas Kaminski, PhD, ATC
Ankle Instability: Bridging the Gap between the Laboratory and the Clinic
2006 Presenter Britton W. Brewer, Ph.D
Britton
W. Brewer, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Springfield College in Springfield,
Massachusetts, USA, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate psychology courses
and conducts research on psychological aspects of sport injury. He is listed
in the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry, 2004-2008
and is a Certified
Consultant, Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology.
2005 Presenter Douglas Casa, PhD-Heat and Hydration Research Pertaining To The Physically Active: An Athletic Trainers' Perspective
Doug
Casa is Director of Athletic Training Education, assistant professor of Kinesiology,
and research associate of the Human Performance Laboratory at the University
of Connecticut, in Storrs, CT. Dr. Casa is a Fellow and Certified Health and
Fitness Instructor of the American College of Sports Medicine. In addition to
being a certified athletic trainer (ATC), he is an active member of the National
Association of Athletic Trainers (NATA), having chaired that organization's
position statement on Fluid Replacement for Athletes (2000) among other duties.
He served as the chair of the 2003 Inter-Association Task force on Exertional
Heat Illnesses. In 2001, he received the New Investigator Award of the NATA
Research and Education Foundation. Casa is also a member of the American Physiological
Society and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist of the National
Strength and Conditioning Association.
Dr. Casa's research has focused on dehydration, rehydration, exertional heat
illnesses, body temperature regulation in hot environments, heat and hydration
issues in childrenand the effects of caffeine, creatine, and glycerol on heat
tolerance during exercise. He has published numerous peer-reviewed research
articles and book chapters and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal
of Athletic Training and the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation.
Dr. Casa has served on the medical staff of the Boston Marathon, New York City
Marathon, and Nutmeg State Games. He also has extensive athletic training experiences
with track and field, cross country running, and road racing.
Dr. Casa was awarded a B.S. degree in biology by Allegheny College in 1990.
In 1993, he received an M.S. degree in athletic training from the University
of Florida, and he majored in exercise physiology while completing his Ph.D.
at the University of Connecticut in 1997.
http://www.education.uconn.edu/dept/ekin/programs/attr/
2004 Presenter Scott M. Lephart, PhD, ATC-Proprioception, Position Sense, Kinesthesia Practical Clinical Applications from Recent Research Findings
Dr.
Scott M. Lephart, PhD, ATC is currently the Chair and Associate Professor of
Sports Medicine and Nutrition and Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic
Surgery School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition he developed
and Chairs the Sports Medicine Graduate Program in the School of Health and
Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He also serves as the
Director of the Neuromuscular Research Laboratory at the UPMC Center For Sports
Medicine and is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery.
He has published more than 70 refereed papers, authored 26 textbook chapters, presented over 100 papers nationally, and presented over 30 research papers internationally in 15 countries on four continents. He is an Adjunct Professor at universities is three countries outside the USA. He authored the textbook Proprioception and Neuromuscular Control in Management of Joint Pathology. He was the editor of the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation from 1996 until 2000. He is a member of five editorial boards.
His awards and honors include the 2002 Clancy Medal for Distinguished Research, National Athletic Trainers’ Association; the 1994 Charles Neer Award granted by the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons; the 1998 Inaugural New Investigator of the Year from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association; the 1999 Educator of the Year from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association; and has been honored with seven outstanding journal research papers.
Dr. Lephart obtained his Bachelor of Science in Sports Medicine from Marietta College, in Marietta, Ohio, in 1983. His Master of Education was completed in 1984 from the University of Virginia. He then went on to get his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1988.
http://www.pitt.edu/~neurolab/home.html
2003 Presenter Tim Hewitt, PhD-New Strategies for the Prevention of Knee Injuries in Female Athletes
Dr.
Hewett is known for his work in the area of the prevention of knee injuries
in female athletes. He is Director of The Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center
at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics
at the College of Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Rehabilitation
Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Hewett possesses a doctorate in
Physiology and Biophysics and a commitment to developing new methods for injury
prevention and athletic development. Dr. Hewett has lectured and published on
the topic of dynamic neuromuscular training and its uses for preventing knee
injuries across the country, from Harvard University to the University of Florida.
He has been a keynote speaker at The Mayo Clinic and Kentucky Sports Medicine
and a visiting professor at Texas Tech University. Dr. Hewett’s work has
been featured by the news media across the country, from the front page of the
New York Times to Good Morning America. Dr. Hewett has published over forty
of his research articles in medical journals and his research has received numerous
awards, including the Excellence in Research Award from the American Orthopaedic
Society for Sports Medicine, the Young Investigator Award from the American
Heart Association and was the Research to Reality presenter at the 2003 Eastern
Athletic Trainers’ Association.
2002
Presenter Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, ATC-Concussion in Sport: Bridging the Gap Between
Research and Clinical Practice
Kevin
M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D., ATC is an Associate Professor and Director of the Sports
Medicine Research Laboratory in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science
at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. He serves as Director
of Undergraduate Athletic Training Education, and Director of Graduate Studies.
Kevin also has a joint appointment in the Department of Orthopaedics at UNC.
Kevin is a 1995 graduate of the University of Virginia's doctoral program in
Sports Medicine. He received a Masters of Science degree in Exercise Physiology
from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992, and a Bachelor of Science degree
in Athletic Training from West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 1989. Over
the past seven years, Kevin’s researched has focused on sport-related
concussion. More specifically, he has investigated the effect of sport-related
concussion on postural stability and cognition. Kevin has been the recipient
of eight funded research grants, and has published 18 journal articles and three
textbook chapters related to mild head injury in sport. He has presented his
research findings at several professional meetings, including ACSM, AOSSM, NATA
Annual Meeting, and several NATA District Meetings. Additionally, Kevin has
completed three textbook chapters related to balance and orthopaedic rehabilitation.
Kevin serves on the editorial boards of three journals and chaired the NATA's
Pronouncement Committee on Mild Head Injury in Sport. Kevin was the recipient
of the 1997 Kenneth Knight Outstanding Research Manuscript for the Journal of
Athletic Training, Recipient of the 1999 Kevin Speer, MD, New Investigator Award
for Athletic Training Research, and a 2000 Recipient of the Stevens Visiting
Scholar at the University of Florida. Kevin teaches courses in Gross Anatomy,
Therapeutic Modalities and Evaluation of Athletic Injuries, and serves as a
staff athletic trainer with the University of North Carolina Athletics Department.
http://www.unc.edu/depts/exercise/kmg.html
2001 Presenter David Draper, PhD, ATC-Therapeutic Ultrasound: Putting the Research to Work
Dr.
David O. Draper, ATC, is a professor and director of the graduate program in
sports medicine/athletic training at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Prior
to this appointment, he taught at Northern Illinois University and Illinois
State University. From 1988 until 1992 he served as the head athletic trainer
at Illinois Wesleyan University. Dr. Draper’s main love is teaching, and
his favorite topics are therapeutic modalities, and evaluation of athletic injuries.
An avid researcher, Dr. Draper has helped to re-write the textbooks regarding
therapeutic ultrasound and diathermy. He has published nearly 40 articles in
scientific journals, 16 of which presented results of his research on thermal
ultrasound. Six of these articles received national awards from the Journal
of Athletic Training. He has also written chapters on ultrasound and diathermy
for two recently released textbooks. In 1995 he helped develop an “intelligent”
ultrasound machine that makes adjustments in treatment according to dosage,
much like iontophoresis (Omnisound 3000C ACP-Euromedica, Reno, NV). He also
collaborated with a plastic surgeon in Santa Monica, CA, involving the use of
ultrasound and diathermy to heat and soften fat prior to liposuction. In 1997
he was honored as the top researcher in the College of Health and Human Performance
at BYU. Dr. Draper has been a speaker at many seminars in the United States,
and in Japan and China. In 1998 he completed his second term as president of
the Utah Athletic Trainers’ Association. He has served as the chair of
the written examination committee of the NATABOC, overseeing the development
of the written certification examination for athletic trainers. As a student
1984, he achieved the highest score possible on the NATABOC examination. During
the fall of 2000 Dr. Draper spent part of his sabbatical working as an athletic
trainer for the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL. He is current a consultant to
that organization. David and his wife Nancy are the parents of 5 children.