Dr. Kelly Pagnotta currently serves as the Program Director/ Associate Professor at Thomas Jefferson University. She has worked clinically as an athletic trainer at various high schools and mass medical events.

Her research areas of interests are preventing sudden death and injuries in athletics using educational techniques and policy development through qualitative research methods. She is specifically interested in how we can get the current research, recommended guidelines and ""best practices"" into clinical practice.

Dr. Pagnotta serves as a reviewer for various athletic training journals and as a CAATE site visitor. She also serves as a Board of Director for the Association of Athletic Training Education. She a member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association and Athletic Trainers’ Society of New Jersey.