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2012 Presenter Darin Padua, PhD, ATC-ACL Injury Prevention
Dr. Darin Padua is an Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science and Director of the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory. He is an adjunct faculty member in the following Departments at UNC: Orthopaedics, Biomedical Engineering, and Allied Health Sciences. Dr. Padua serves as the Director of the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Research Institute and is the acting Chair of the Research Committee for the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Foundation.
Dr. Padua received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Athletic Training from San Diego State University (1996) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1998), respectively. He earned his PhD in Sports Medicine from the University of Virginia in 2001.
His primary research interests focus on understanding factors that influence knee stability, identification of risk factors associated with knee injury, identification of evidence based prevention strategies for knee injury, and validation of performance enhancement training techniques. Current research includes investigating predictive factors for ACL injury, biomechanical comparison of ACL injury prevention interventions, examination of modifiable neuromuscular factors that contribute to movement impairments, validation of clinical movement assessment techniques to predict muscle imbalances and injury risk, and validation of corrective exercises commonly used for injury prevention and performance enhancement.
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2011 Presenter Tim Uhl PhD, ATC, PT, FNATA-EMG Evidence to Apply to Shoulder Rehabilitation Exercise Design
Tim Uhl has been practicing physical therapy and athletic training since 1985 in various sport medicine settings. Tim received his bachelors in health science from the University of Kentucky in physical therapy. After three years of clinical practice at the Lexington Sports Medicine Center he went on to receive his masters’ degree in kinesiology from the University of Michigan. At Michigan he worked with the athletic programs and at MedSport their sports medicine outpatient center. He served both on the staff and as the director of outpatient physical therapy at the Human Performance and Rehabilitation Centers in Columbus, GA. He completed his doctorate in sports medicine from the University of Virginia in 1998 where he studied shoulder proprioception and is presently an associate professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Division of Athletic Training at the University of Kentucky and Co-Director of the Musculoskeletal Laboratory.
Tim is particularly interested in the area of shoulder evaluation and rehabilitation and has several research projects ongoing in this area. He has secured funding for his research in the area of scapula kinematics and shoulder rehabilitation from private industry and private non-profit organizations.
Tim is active member of the Sport Physical Therapy Section of the American Physical Therapy Association; he also is a past-president of the American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists. In 2004 he became an affiliate member of the society of American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. He served on the Research Committee of the NATA Research and Education Foundation from 2003 to 2009.
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2010 Presenter Sandra Fowkes Godek PhD, ATC-Sodium Depletion Illness
Dr. Sandra Fowkes Godek is a Full Professor in the Department of Sports Medicine at West Chester University. She received a bachelors of science degree in athletic training from Penn State University, a masters of science degree in exercise physiology from the University of Colorado and a doctorate of philosophy in exercise physiology from Temple University. Dr. Fowkes Godek currently teaches courses in athletic training, serves as the Medical Coordinator for the Sports Medicine Department and is the director of the HEAT Institute at West Chester University. In December of 2006, she received the Council of Trustees’ Distinguished Faculty Award at West Chester University. Dr. Fowkes Godek is active in the National Athletic Trainer’s Association previously serving on the College/University Student Athletic Trainers Committee and the Research and Education Foundation Free Communications Committee. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of Athletic Training, is a grant reviewer for the NATA Research and Education Foundation and is a reviewer for the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, Medicine and Science in Sports, Exercise and Athletic Training and Sports Health Care and the Journal of Sports Sciences. She has numerous first author publications and in 2004 she received the Kenneth Knight Journal of Athletic Training award for Outstanding Original Research Manuscript.
Dr. Sandra Fowkes Godek’s research on thermoregulation, hydration, and electrolyte replacement in football players has attracted national attention as she has appeared on MSNBC as an expert on heat illness in football, on the CBS Evening News and the web show NASA 360. For the past 7 years during preseason training camps, she has completed extensive data collections with both the West Chester University and Philadelphia Eagles football teams. Additionally, Dr. Fowkes Godek continues for the 5th year to do research with the Philadelphia Flyers and Phantoms professional ice hockey teams. Her goal as Director of the HEAT Institute is to provide athletes, certified athletic trainers and additional sports medicine professionals with independent and unbiased information about thermoregulation, and fluid and electrolyte balance.
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2009 Presenter Michael Dolan MS, ATC- Do Current Management Practices for Sprained Ankles Hasten Recovery?
Mike Dolan '82 is a Peter Canisius Dinstinguished Professor in the department of Sports Medicine, Health and Human Performance. Within the Department of Sports Medicine, he teaches several courses including Therapeutic Exercise, Pathophysiology and Pharmacology, Health Issues for Athletic Training, and the Practicums within the ATEP. He is also an approved clinical instructor. He is the director of the Center for Health and Sports Medicine which is funded by a grant through the distinguished professorship program.
Dolan has had a variety of professional experiences throughout his career as an athletic trainer. He has served as a graduate assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned a Master of Arts degree. He has also served as the head athletic trainer and assistant professor at Marietta College in Marietta Ohio.
Dolan is an active researcher who has been published in peer reviewed publications and presented his work at multiple national and regional symposiums. His research topics include the effects of therapeutic modalities and anti-inflammatory medications on edema formation and functional activity following orthopedic injuries. He is co-author of the text, Foot Orthotics in Therapy and Sport. Dolan has earned several honors and awards including the Journal of Athletic Training Kenneth L. Knight Award for Outstanding Research Manuscripts and the Eastern Athletic Trainers Association Funded Research Award.
He has been a column editor of Athletic Therapy Today as well as guest reviewer for the Journal of Athletic Training and Athletic Therapy. He is also a grant reviewer for the NATA Research and Education Foundation, a new product consultant for Cramer Products, and the co-founder of Clinical Associates of Western New York. Dolan is an active member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
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2008 Presenter Erik Swartz PhD, ATC-Management of Cervical Spine Injuries: Sensitivity, Efficiency, and Controversy
Erik E Swartz is an Associate Professor and Clinical Coordinator in the CAATE accredited Athletic Training Education program within the Department of Kinesiology at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Swartz received a B.S. from St. Bonaventure University in 1995 and a M.A. through the Approved Graduate Athletic Training Program at Western Michigan University. He completed his PhD in Applied Biomechanics at the University of Toledo in May 2000.
Dr. Swartz’ primary research interest involves studying the acute management of athletes with a cervical spine injury. Dr. Swartz has received grant awards from The NATA Foundation, The Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association, and the National Organization for Standards in Athletic Equipment. He has been published in multiple journals including Spine, New England Journal of Medicine, Prehospital Emergency Care, Journal of Athletic Training, The American Journal of Sports Medicine, and Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. Hehas presented his research on state, regional and national levels. He serves on the NFL Head Neck and Spine Committee’s Subcommittee on Safety Equipment and Rules and on the NATA Conference Programming Committee. He is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Athletic Training and Athletic Training and Sports Health Care Journal.
Dr. Swartz was selected to chair the writing group for the NATA Position Statement on the Acute Management of the Cervical Spine Injured Athlete. He was recognized as the EATA 2009 ‘Research to Reality’ presenter, received the Outstanding New Investigator Research Award from the College of Health and Human Services at the University of New Hampshire, and was recognized in 2010 with an Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Toledo. In 2011 he was honored with a Fellows designation in the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.
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2007 Jay Hertel, PhD, ATC and Thomas Kaminski, PhD, ATC-Ankle Instability: Bridging the Gap between the Laboratory and the Clinic
Jay Hertel is a faculty member in the athletic training/sports medicine specialization within the Kinesiology Program. He is interested in the prevention, assessment, and treatment of athletic injuries with an emphasis on lower extremity musculoskeletal injuries. He approaches these issues from a multifactorial perspective using diverse methods ranging from laboratory-based assessments of biomechanics and motor control to evidence-based practice principles inherent to clinical epidemiology.
Hertel received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse (1993). He attended the University of Virginia (1994) where he received his Master of Education. He completed his Ph.D. work from Pennsylvania State University (1999).
Hertel is very interested in research associated with sports medicine. He specializes in ankle instability, postural control, lower extremity musculoskeletal injuries, joint mobilizations, evidence-based practice in sports medicine. He has presented his work at many national and regional symposiums.
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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.
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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/
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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
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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.
http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/Research/Divisions/Molecular_Cardiovascular_Biology/faculty_interests/hewett.htm
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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
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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.
http://www.byu.edu/pe/PEFaculty/draper.html
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