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Married to Jana (a real estate agent) with two grown children, Patrick (24) lives and works as a construction manager in Pittsburgh and Allison (22) lives and works in the HR department for Amazon in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

To be part of a new Master’s in Athletic Training program.

Beside my classes, I along with my fellow athletic training education colleague, Dr. Robert Bradley, we are collaborating with two music department faculty, Dr. Juli Buxbaum and Dr. Kristin Leitterman, on trying to create an injury prediction model for instrumental musicians.

the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pittsburgh Steelers.

That athletic trainers are healthcare professionals and should be treated as such.

Compassion and understanding

always being in the athletic training room if I was not in class.

As an undergrad it was a history professor who was so passionate about what he taught. He would literally act out the parts of the persons he was discussing.

Someone who is willing to learn every day and open to new experiences.

golf and gardening.

Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Steelers and Penn State Football.

It helps to not only prepare people for the challenges they will face in their chosen field of study, but it also helps them to mature and realize what the world is like outside of the one they had been a part of until they left for college.

Be prepared to think, work and read!

United States history or political science

to the Bay Area with my wife about two years ago.

a lap around America.

create a clinical prediction model to determine who might be at high-risk for suffering a concussion.

XM radio on the Billy Joel Channel

The Sting which was won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1974.

My education!

“Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another” by Jonathan Fenby.

Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, General George S. Patton and Ronald Reagan.

that by the time your child is two years old, they should be able to stop on a dime when you say stop. Why? Because it may save their life someday. It saved my daughter once when she was about 18 month and again when she was 13 years old.

Don’t let your studies get in the way of your education!

my pen knife.

my Wall of Fame.

students who plagiarize.

Peel and eat shrimp, corn-on-the-cob, and ice-cold beer.

liver and onions.

spent with my wife and kids.

Bugs Bunny.

how genuinely friendly everyone is.

Hardback

Beach

Dinner

my wife.

be smarter.

In response to a question about how I am, I will say – “I am able to sit up and take nourishment and I’m on the right side of the daisies. So life is good!”