The faculty of the SMRI is comprised of experts with backgrounds in athletic training, physical therapy, orthopaedic and pulmonary medicine, exercise physiology, epidemiology, nutrition, concussion, biomechanics, and bioengineering.
Reiley Bergin
Research Analytic
Kelly Calia
Administrative Services Assistant
Tatiana Djafar, MS
Assistant Professor
Dee Dlugonski, PhD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Nick Heebner, PhD, ATC
Director, Sports Medicine Research Institute, Assistant Professor
Matt Hoch, PhD, ATC
Associate Professor, Associate Director, Sports Medicine Research Institute
Michaela Keener, PhD
Assistant Professor
Scott Lephart, PhD
Dean, Professor, Endowed Chair of Orthopaedic Research (University of Kentucky)
Ilana Patlan, MSc
Research Analyst
Ke'La Porter
Research Assistant
Jeremy Ross, B.S., M.Ed., CSCS
Assistant Professor
Danielle Torp, PhD, ATC
Assistant Research Professor
Kimberly Tumlin
Research Assistant Professor
Tim Uhl, PhD, ATC, PT, FNATA
Professor
Joshua Winters, PhD, CSCS
Associate ProfessorAssociate Faculty
College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
- James MacLeod, VMD, PhD
College of Education
- Mark Abel, PhD
- Ben Johnson, EdD
- Robert Shapiro, PhD, FACSM
College of Engineering
- Babak Bazrgari, PhD
College of Health Sciences
- W. Scott Black, MD, MS
- Timothy Butterfield, PhD, ATC
- Ming-Yuan Chih, PhD, MHA
- Esther Dupont-Versteegden, PhD
- Phillip Gribble, PhD, ATC, FNATA
- Johanna Hoch, PhD, ATC
- Nathan Johnson, PT, DPT, PhD
- Patrick Kitzman, PhD, MSPT
- Carl Mattacola, PhD, ATC, FNATA
- Brian Noehren, PT, PhD, FACSM
- Charlotte Peterson, PhD
- D. Travis Thomas, PhD, RD, CSSD
- Timothy Uhl, PhD, ATC, PT, FNATA
College of Medicine
- Jose Abisambra, PhD
- Jody Clasey, PhD, FACSM
- Stephen Duncan, MD
- James Geddes, PhD
- Dong (Dan) Han, PsyD
- Carolyn M. Hettrich, MD
- Robert Hosey, MD
- Mary Lloyd Ireland, MD
- Henry Iwinski, MD
- Cale Jacobs, PhD, ATC
- Darren Johnson, MD
- Scott Mair, MD
- Susan McDowell, MD
- Eric Moghadamian, MD
- Peter Morris, MD
- Caitlin Whale-Conley, PhD, ATC
College of Nursing
- Deborah Reed, MSPH, PhD, RN, FAAOHN, FAAN
College of Public Health
- Glen Mays, PhD, MPH
- Wayne Sanderson, PhD, MS
UK Athletics
- Jim Madaleno, MS, ATC
- Chris Morris, PhD