Cindy

Seminoff

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Dr. Seminoff has a passion for promoting health and wellness. Much of her work has focused on motivation for physical activity with the goal of determining effective techniques to promote physical activity and wellness. Current work involves evaluating the relationship of objective sports performance measures and health measures to injury rates in athletes.

Stephanie

Stang

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Dr. Stang has extensive education in human anatomy and physiology, physiotherapy and clinical experience. She is currently involved in the POWER lab at Grand Canyon University on the sEMG project where she has mentored a number of students and taken part in poster presentations at the Grand Canyon University’s research symposium.

Michael

Barton

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Mr. Barton has extensive experience in human anatomy and physiology. His undergraduate research was on neural tube development, while his graduate studies focused on anatomy and biomechanics He has worked in a research environment for over 5 years and has taught anatomy for almost 13 years. He enjoys mentoring undergraduate students in learning research methods and skills that will be useful for their future professions.

Zachary

Zeigler

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Dr. Zeigler is an Exercise Physiologist with research interests in Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease.  Past research focus has been on identifying ideal strategies to maximize blood pressure reduction following exercise.  In addition, he has focused on examining the impact of body weight on cardiovascular health.  High blood pressure and obesity are comorbid conditions that are extremely hard to isolate for treatment.  Therefore, interventions that can favorably impact both are warranted.

Eddie

Smith

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Dr. Smith has experience in psychological, biological, and kinesiologic research. Much of his experience has come in the form of evaluating perceptions of stimuli and how that affects an individual's response and specific topics such as lateral ankle sprains, sleep apnea, and long-term cardiovascular health. Current interests include the effective use of communication on clinical outcomes of Physical Therapy, applied kinesiology, population health and sports performance.

Courtney 

Baker

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Courtney Baker is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with a passion to develop quality dietetics education and promote health and wellness for all. Much of her past work experience has been in nutrition and dietetics education program development. In 2020, she was selected for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Leadership Institute, where she assisted in the dietetics educational shift to champion an inclusive Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics focused on increasing recruitment, retention and completion of dietetics education and leadership at all levels for underrepresented groups.