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.
Scott Lephart, PhD
Dean, Professor, Endowed Chair of Orthopaedic Research (University of Kentucky)
Matt Hoch, PhD, ATC
Associate Professor, Associate Director, Sports Medicine Research Institute
Associate Faculty
College of Agriculture, Food and Environment
College of Education
- Mark Abel, PhD
- Ben Johnson, EdD
- Robert Shapiro, PhD, FACSM
College of Engineering
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