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The development of SportsTech TV programming is rooted in an extraordinary sharing of knowledge, scientific research and sportsmanship ideologies. We are proud to announce our most preeminent Board of Advisors:
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| Allen | Becker | Daigle | Heil | Illian | Matsen | McCullagh | Robertson | Sands | Sauers | Scanlan | Schoene | Schmidt | Stone | Vokos | Watt
Research Assistants
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Margaret Allen, M.D., F.A.S.C., is an internationally recognized cardiac surgeon and scientist who is known for founding and directing the heart transplant program at the University of Washington, the first in the Pacific Northwest. She was also formerly the president of UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing), the national transplant network. She has been selected as one of the Best Doctors in America for its five consecutive surveys. After 15 years in clinical surgery, in 2000, Dr. Allen became the Medical Director and Chair of Translational Medicine of the Hope Heart Program, which in 2004 was incorporated into the Benaroya Research Institute. Her current scientific research focuses on the prevention of heart failure through tissue engineering and gene therapy for myocardial infarct repair. She also collaborates with Hope Heart scientists on extra-cellular matrix modulation in the heart and with the University of Washington’s Department of Bioengineering on cardiac tissue engineering. Dr. Allen has more than 200 publications in medical related professional journals.
Theodore J. Becker, Ph.D., RPT is recognized by the medical and legal professions as being eminently qualified in the areas of 'Hard Data Human Performance Testing' and 'Capacity Evaluation Protocol Testing'. His credential as a Ph.D. in Human Performance and associated certifications in the areas of rehabilitation, disability analysis, and sports medicine are a unique combination of specializations. He is known to be an innovator in his disciplines holding patents and trademarks for devices that calibrate test and measurement instruments for rehabilitation and for software related to rehabilitation research and capacity testing. A leading authority in his fields, Dr. Becker has served as United States Swimming Olympic Team Head Trainer, 1984 Los Angeles and Rehabilitation Consultant to the professional athletic training staff of the St. Louis Cardinals. He has been featured in Sports Illustrated, 1984 Olympic issue, Outside Magazine, and Swim Magazine.
Karen Daigle, M.S., R.D., is currently a sport physiologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee at the Colorado Springs Training Center. She has been with the U.S. Olympic Committee Sports Science staff since summer 2003. Prior to becoming involved with the Olympic movement, Karen served 11 years in the U.S. military. She holds a B.S. in Dietetics from Louisiana State University, M.S. degrees in both Movement Science (Exercise Physiology specialization) and Nutrition and Food Science (Sports Nutrition specialization) from Florida State University and is a Registered Dietitian. In addition to physiological testing of elite athletes, she also interprets the latest research in sports nutrition to provide nutrition counseling and education to coaches and athletes at all levels of ability.
John Heil, D.A., is trained both as a clinical psychologist and sport psychologist. His current practice incorporates a clinical psychology focus in pain and behavioral medicine and a performance based focus in sport psychology. The combination has enabled him to become a leading contributor to the psychology of sport injury which serves as the title for his 1993 book published by Human Kinetics. As a result, Dr. Heil has been Director of Sports Medicine for the Virginia Commonwealth (State) Games, coordinated medical services for stages of the Tour Du Pont, and served as Chair of Sports Medicine and Science for US Fencing. As sport psychology consultant for US Fencing, he has provided direct consultation to elite athletes and developed programs and services for coaches and athletes. Dr. Heil has written extensively for professional journals, addressed numerous professional conferences, and is frequently interviewed by television and radio and quoted in print publications ranging from news papers to trade magazines.
Mr. Paul Illian B.S.M.E., is owner of Illian Consulting, a Seattle-based firm that develops imaging software and simulations for the purpose of performance analysis and education. Current projects involve race cars and unlimited hydroplanes. Mr. Illian was the lead engineer for the Nova Ray Submersible ROV responsible for developing the operator station and control system software and their command & control protocols. For five years, Mr. Illian was a senior engineer for The Boeing Company responsible for navigation and guidance software on the Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile and development of the operator station and GUI for X-45 Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle. During that period, he was chief engineer for The Raven Project, a Seattle Museum of Flight sponsored effort to break the world record in human powered flight for time and distance. Mr. Illian developed the simulator software and later designed, built and tested the aircraft. A graduate of University of Central Florida with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Mr. Illian has been featured in Scientific American, Popular Mechanics, and Endeavor magazines along with various segments on Discovery Channel.
Frederick A. Matsen III, M.D. is Professor and Chairman of University of Washington School of Medicine Department of Orthopaedics where he has practiced since completing is residency. With post-graduate fellowships that studied shoulder reconstruction at the New York Orthopaedic Hospital, shoulder arthroplasy at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and neck and upper extremity injuries in sports at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Dr. Matsen is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the shoulder in the world. Honored for teaching, writing, and speaking by numerous professional organizations, Dr. Matsen has served in editorial leadership for Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, Journal of Orthopaedic Research, Video Journal of Orthopaedics, American Journal of Roentgenology and held organizational leadership in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Medical Association, American Orthopaedic Association, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons. A prolific researcher, Dr. Matsen has been awarded nearly forty funded research projects totaling $3M dollars and published more than 200 articles, book chapters complemented by an equal number of speaking presentations.
Penny McCullagh, Ph.D. began her studies in sport psychology thirty years ago as an undergraduate at SUNY Brockport. She completed a Master’s degree at the University of Washington and a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1976. Dr. McCullagh has taught sport psychology and motor learning at the University of California at Davis and the University of Colorado, and is currently Professor and Department Chair at California State University Hayward. With over 40 publications and more than 100 presentations in sport and exercise psychology, her primary research has been in the area of observational learning or the role watching others and modeling their behavior has on sport , movement, and psychological skills, the subject of her chapter in the Van Raalte and Brewer text, Exploring Exercise Psychology. Her applied work includes ballet dancers and elite athletes. Dr. McCullagh is a Certified Consultant of AAASP, a Fellow of the Research Consortium of AAHPERD, AAASP, and the Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology and the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology and has been president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity and the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology; divisional president for the American Psychological Association.
H. Thomas Robertson, M.D. is a professor of Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington. He is the section head of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University Hospital, and maintains a career in teaching, patient care, and respiratory physiology research. His research funding is for basic studies of the regulation and matching of blood flow and gas flow in the lung. He has also had a career-long interest in exercise testing for both clinical care and exercise physiology research. He supervises 400 to 500 exercise tests conducted each year by physician trainees at the University Hospital. He has performed the exercise testing of patients in a number of clinical trials including studies of patients with heart, lung, or kidney disease. He also has authored (and participated in) studies of the exercise responses of normal subjects subjected to stresses of hypoxia, dietary manipulations, increased respiratory work loads. His career experience has made him a strong proponent of the health benefits of fitness for everyone, both in his work with patients and with his teaching and professional speaking engagements. He is a graduate of Colgate University and Harvard Medical School.
William (Bill) Sands, Ph.D. is the Head of Sport Biomechanics and Engineering for the U.S. Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Previously, he served as Senior Sport Physiologist at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center in New York. He has over 35 years of experience in Olympic sports. Dr. Sands has served as an associate professor at the University of Utah’s Department of Exercise and Sport Science and Co-Director of the Motor Behavior Research Laboratory with adjunct appointments in Bioengineering and Physical Therapy, Department Chair of Exercise Science & Sports Medicine at California Lutheran University and Director of the Human Performance Laboratory, Director of Research and Development for USA Gymnastics, Exercise Physiologist for USA Diving and USA Track and Field-Heptathlon. Dr. Sands, a former gymnast, was also a World Championship coach in gymnastics and produced several Olympians, more than a dozen national team members, and many World Championship team members. Dr. Sands has served on the USA Gymnastics National Staff in various capacities from 1978 to 2001. He has written more than a dozen books and over 200 articles on sport performance. His primary interests lie in electromyography, training monitoring, and strength and power performance.
Dr. Eric Sauers is the Chair of the Department of Sports Health Care and Director of the Graduate Athletic Training Education Program at the Arizona School of Health Sciences (ASHS), a school of A. T. Still University, in Mesa, Arizona. He is also the Executive Director of the Dwight Patterson Sports Academy, a community-based non-profit organization concerned with enhancing youth sports health, safety, and wellness, through research and education. Dr. Sauers is a nationally board certified and state licensed athletic trainer. Currently, he is a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Pronouncements Committee that oversees the development of the athletic training professions official policy and position statements. In addition, he is a member of the NATA Graduate Education Committee and was recently appointed as the incoming chair of this committee. Dr. Sauers primary research interests are related to shoulder mobility adaptations in response to overhead athletics and injury. He oversees the ASHS Shoulder Research Laboratory, is an affiliate member of the American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists, has written numerous articles related to shoulder mobility, and was a contributor to a new orthopaedic shoulder evaluation text.
Tara K. Scanlan, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and Founding Director of the International Center for Talent Development at UCLA . The mission of the Center is to understand and nurture the development of talent across a wide range of skill levels and across diverse domains including art, business, education, music, space exploration, and sport. Two foci of the Center are understanding the process of commitment in talent development and the lifespan consequences of developing talent. Dr. Scanlan publishes research and applied articles, and is a frequent keynote speaker to diverse international and national audiences. She is a Past President of one of the largest sport psychology organizations in the world, the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP) and is a Past President of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity. Dr. Scanlan was ranked as one of the 10 leading sport psychologists in North America, was cited for having the greatest number of classic references in the leading research journal in sport psychology, is a Fellow in AAASP and the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology since its inception in 1979, and serves as a reviewer for several journals. Dr. Scanlan was selected to be a William Evans Visiting Fellow – one of the highest honors bestowed on foreign scholars by the University of Otago, New Zealand. She also was chosen to be the 1999 Australian International Scholar in Sport Psychology.
Robert “Brownie” Schoene, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine and Internal Medicine Program Director at the University of California, San Diego. He spent most of his career at the University of Washington where he was a pulmonary/critical care physician and was Director of the Pulmonary and Exercise Physiology Laboratories. His research is in exercise physiology, high altitude adaptation and illness, and lung injury. He was a climber-scientist on the 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Mt. Everest, a scientist on numerous projects at high altitude in climbers and inhabitants in Alaska, Chile, Peru, Colorado, Africa, and Asia all of which contributed to his reputation as the world’s leading authority on high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). He has published nearly 200 research and review articles, and textbook chapters as well as a research book on high altitude, co-authored with Dr, Thomas Hornbein at the UW, He has been a medical advisor on numerous committees of the U.S.O.C., and is an avid climber, runner, and cyclist.
Richard Schmidt, Ph.D. attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his B.A. in physical education, with a minor in mathematics, in 1963. He was an All-American collegiate gymnast on the still rings in 1962. He received a teaching credential and an M.A. degree in physical education in 1965 from Berkeley and taught and coached gymnastics until he entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois. Since graduating in 1967, Dr. Schmidt has served on the faculty at the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, University of Southern California, and UCLA, where he is now Emeritus in the Department of Psychology. During his entire career, he specialized in laboratory research dealing with the control of movements, human performance, human learning, and human factors. He has written four books in these areas, has published over 130 articles in scientific journals, and was the founder and Editor of the Journal of Motor Behavior in 1969. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Army Research Institute. Dr. Schmidt was awarded honorary doctoral degrees from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium, 1992) and the Université Joseph Fourier (France, 1998) for outstanding long-term contributions to research in his field, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from a human performance research organization, NASPSPA. His consulting activities have been mostly involved with products liability. Having given testimony in approximately 100 depositions, and has appeared in trial (both in State and Federal Court) approximately 40 times. He is currently President of his own consulting firm, Human Performance Research, and consults on issues dealing with human performance, human learning, and human factors (ergonomics).
Michael H. Stone Ph.D. is currently the Head of Sports Physiology for the USOC. He joined the USOC Sports Science staff in Colorado Springs in January 2002. Previously he was Chair of Sport at Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. Stone's service and research interests are primarily concerned with physiological and performance adaptations to strength/power training. Dr. Stone is also an adjunct professor at Edith Cowan University in Perth Australia and at LSU-Shreveport. He has 120+ publications in reviewed journals and has contributed chapters to several texts in the areas of bioenergetics, nutrition, and strength/power training. Dr. Stone was the 1991 NSCA Sports Scientist of the Year and was awarded the NSCA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. He has coached several international and national level weightlifters and throwers in both the United States and Great Britain.
Stamatis Vokos, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Physics at Seattle Pacific University. He received his B.S. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, England in 1984 and his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. After two postdoctoral research appointments in high energy physics, at Argonne National Laboratory and at the University of Washington, he joined the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington in 1995. Since 1995, Dr. Vokos has initiated and directed several projects in physics education research and has been applying the tools of physics education research to improve physics instruction at all levels. In particular, he has been investigating student understanding of Galilean, special, and general relativity, and of the interface between classical and quantum mechanics. This research includes identification of student difficulties with basic concepts that, if not explicitly addressed, can prevent meaningful learning of advanced topics. Research results form the basis for the development and assessment of instructional strategies to be used in courses at the introductory level and beyond, including special courses for the preparation of pre-college science teachers. In 2002, Dr. Vokos joined the faculty of Seattle Pacific University, secured the first of two terms as chair of the Committee on Research in Physics Education of the American Association of Physics Teachers, and continues to present invited talks at national and international meetings.
David Watt, B.S.A.E., is the North American Business Development Manager for Honeywell International’s inertial navigation sensors, including accelerometers and gyroscopes, in Redmond, Washington. Previously, he was President of Advanced Composites Manufacturing and Engineering, which specialized in the design and manufacture of pre-preg graphite/epoxy tubular components for Olympic and International Class Sailboats. He was also a Senior (Aerospace) Engineer at the Boeing Company, for more than 10 years, and worked in a number of engineering disciplines including aircraft structural design and stress analysis, and aerodynamics. He has over 25 years experience competing in national and international regattas in Olympic and International Class Sailboats, and has won a number of National Championships in a variety of one-design class sailboats. He has served the International Laser (Sailboat) Class as the North American Measurer and as a World Council Member. In 1988, at the request of the United States Olympic Yachting Committee, he led development of centerboard and rudder designs for the U.S. Olympic sailing representatives.
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Jim Wiesen, B.A., is the Athletic Director and a physical education teacher at the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle. He is the President of the 20-member Cascade Middle School League and a former head soccer coach at the University of New Mexico. He is currently working toward a Masters degree in physical education at Seattle Pacific University.
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