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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)

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 Professor


Associate 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