John is Associate Teaching Professor of Kinesiology at Penn State University. For the past 21 years he has split his time between teaching in the Undergraduate Athletic Training Education Program, working as a physical therapist at Penn State Sports Medicine Physical Therapy and a rehabilitation specialist with Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics. His clinical interests include manual therapy and the treatment of spinal dysfunction. John earned his BS degree in Health and Physical Education with an emphasis in Athletic Training and his PhD in Kinesiology from Penn State University. He earned an MA degree in Physical Therapy from Stanford University. His professional experiences include working as an assistant athletic trainer with the San Francisco Forty Niners and selection as the athletic trainer for the US Freestyle Ski Team at the 1992 Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France. He also owned an outpatient orthopedic physical therapy clinic in Seattle, Washington for 10 years before returning to Penn State to pursue his PhD. John has been a member of the NATA’s Continuing Education and Convention Planning Committees and received the NATA Continuing Education Excellence Award in 2012. The Professional Football Athletic Trainers’ Society presented him with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2013. Recently, he was a member of the Board of Certification Practice Analysis 8 Task Force. He has also worked on developing a manual therapy certificate for the NATA.