Faculty: Athletic Training and Sports Medicine
- William E. Buckley
- Professor of Exercise and Sport Science and Health Education
- Research Interests: Health aspects of sport and athletic training
with a focus in sport injury risk assessment and epidemiology; development
of sport injury risk assessment models to apply to various subset athletic
populations (women, disabled, senior participants); drug use in athletics;
quality assessment for athletic training; and curriculum design.
- Lauren C. (Olmsted) Kramer
- Program Director, Athletic Training Option
- Research Interests: The role of hormones in understanding female
ACL injuries and postural control measurements in athletes with chronic
ankle instability.
- Nicole M. McBrier
- Assistant Professor of Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Skeletal muscle regeneration following
injury; examining the influence of clinical therapeutic modalities and
rehabilitation on the regenerative processes.
- Sayers John Miller
- Assistant Professor of Kinesiology
- Research Interests: Orthopaedic injury rehabilitation including
manual therapy, functional testing and outcome assessment. Dr. Miller
practices as a physical therapist at the Penn State Center for Sports
Medicine.
- Neil A. Sharkey
- Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education; Professor of Kinesiology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
- Research Interests: Functional aspects of the musculoskeletal
system viewed from an orthopaedic perspective; normal, pathologic, and
reconstructed function of bones and joints; mechanisms of injury to bone,
ligament, and tendon and associated healing responses; laboratory modeling
of skeletal and diarthroidal joint loading; internal biomechanical behavior
of the foot and ankle, knee, hip and shoulder.