I started as a physical therapy technician in Ruston and have spent the fourteen years since my doctorate moving steadily from treating people to leading the programs that treat them. My training took me through St. Augustine, Ohio State, Louisville, Houston, and Auckland. My work has run through Air Force Special Warfare, Army special operations, the Space Force, cruise ships, and university classrooms.
Today I hold several roles at once: Director of Operations for a healthcare company, Director of Clinical Education for a doctoral program, owner of a consulting practice, co-founder of an education company and a professional summit, and a practicing clinician. I’m a board-certified sports physical therapist, a strength coach, and a sport scientist with a research master’s degree in biomechanics (MPhil).
What ties it together is a belief that people perform best inside well-built systems, and that the people running those systems deserve good structure, good data, and good mentors.
Education and training
2021
Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Biomechanics
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
The MPhil is a research master’s degree, earned through original research rather than coursework. Mine focused on rate of force development and the reliability and validity of clinical force testing, and I remain active in that research today.
2014
Sports Performance Fellowship
University of Louisville Athletics, plus the AASPT Sports Traveling Fellowship
2013
Sports Physical Therapy Residency
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
2012
Doctor of Physical Therapy, with Honors
University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences
2010
BS Kinesiology, cum laude
Louisiana Tech University
Credentials
Certifications
- Board-Certified Sports Clinical Specialist (SCS)
- Certified Performance and Sport Scientist (CPSS)
- Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
- USA Weightlifting Level II Coach
- Emergency Medical Responder, CPR/BLS
- Exxat certified
Licensed in
Florida and Colorado. Previously Texas, Ohio, Kentucky, and New Zealand.
Service and leadership
- Aspen Ideas: Health Fellow, 2026
- AASPT Program Committee, 2026 to now
- Co-founder, Traverse City Tendon Summit, 2026 to now
- Peer reviewer, IJSPT and Sports Health, 2020 to now
- APTA CSM abstract selection committee, 2020 to now
- Sports Health editorial board and social media chair, 2020 to 2024
- AASPT Sports Performance SIG, practice co-chair and research chair, 2019 to 2021
- Director of Research, EIM / Kinetacore, 2017 to 2020
- Medical volunteer, STAND Haiti, 2017
Memberships
APTA (Sports Section, Hip SIG, Sports Performance SIG), NSCA, and USA Weightlifting.
Procedural certifications and continuing education
Dry needling Level III including ultrasound-guided (Kinetacore), Paris manual therapy Level IV, blood flow restriction (Owens), focused shockwave, IASTM, Immediate Care in Rugby, Battlefield Acupuncture, LightForce laser.
- 2025: Management of Running Injuries (Rich Willy); Elite Basketball and Football Conference; Sanford Sports Medicine
- 2023: Comprehensive Management of Sport-Related Concussion
- 2022: Walter Reed; AMSC; Body Tempering; Jill Cook Lectureship Series
- 2021: Military Embedded PT Symposium; Sprint Mechanics (Lee Taft); Management of the Fitness Athlete (ICE); Critical Thinking for the Clinician (Erik Meira)
- 2020: SPRINZ Writing Retreat; La Trobe tendon site visit with Jill Cook, Ebonie Rio, and Peter Malliaras
- 2018 to 2019: Pain Neuroscience (Adriaan Louw); Hip and Knee Course (Erik Meira); surgical skills labs
- 2012 to 2017: dry needling Levels I to III; USAW Levels I and II; blood flow restriction; Evaluation and Treatment of the Shoulder (Todd Ellenbecker); cadaveric anatomy; Paris manual therapy series