John C. Roberts, Jr., EdD, LAT, ATC is an assistant professor and Interim Program Director for Gannon University’s Master of Athletic Training Program in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was the Clinical Education Coordinator at Gannon from 2021 to 2024 and served as Undergraduate Program Director at Concord University in Athens, WV from 2014 to 2021. John was named the Athletic Training Educator of the Year by the West Virginia Athletic Trainers’ Association in 2018 and 2021. Before Concord, John was the athletic trainer at Spotswood High School in Penn Laird, Virginia. He also has clinical experience in collegiate settings and physicals therapy clinics. Dr. Roberts earned his Educational Doctoral in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Health Professions Education in 2019 from the University of Louisiana, Monroe. He completed the post-professional athletic training program and earned his Master of Science in Education at Old Dominion University in 2001 and he graduated from James Madison University’s undergraduate athletic training program with a Bachelor’s of Science in Kinesiology on 1998.He has served on many state, university, and organizational/hospital planning committees and advisory councils. Currently he is a member of the Continuing Education Committee for the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Society, the chair of the District 2 Honors and Awards Committee, and member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Executive Council for Education.John resides in Erie, PA with his wife, Katie, who is also an athletic trainer, and their three children. He is passionate about spending time with his family, serving as a Scoutmaster, coaching and playing soccer, camping, and kayaking.