Cris Stickley is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science and director of the Biomechanics and Gait Laboratory at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He previously served as the Associate Athletic Director for Sports Medicine and Head Athletic Trainer at Northern Kentucky University. He is a member of the Athletic Trainers Osteoarthritis Consortium and his main areas of research focus on knee mechanics across the lifespan including the identification of gait related risks for lower extremity overuse injuries and lower extremity biomechanical changes resulting from osteoarthritis and total knee arthroplasty.