Alison Valier, PhD, ATC, FNATA, serves as a professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences and assistant director of research support through Research, Grants, and Information Technology Systems. She received her bachelor of arts degree in psychology and physical education from Whitman College in Washington and a master of science degree in exercise physiology at the University of Toledo in Ohio. In addition, she received her doctorate in exercise science from the University of Toledo, where she majored in applied physiology and completed a minor in human anatomy. Dr. Valier completed a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Clinical Outcomes Research, awarded to her by the NATA Research and Education Foundation. Dr. Valier’s teaching emphasizes the assessment of clinical outcomes and evaluating the end result of healthcare services, sports injury epidemiology, and quality improvement. She instructs in both the Post-Professional Athletic Training and the Doctor of Athletic Training programs. Her primary research area of interest is in measuring the outcomes of various athletic training interventions as well as evaluating the HRQOL of high school and college athletes who suffer sport-related injury. Another area of interest involves the use and development of patient-reported outcomes instruments that are used to facilitate patient centered care and evaluate patient outcomes. Dr. Valier has served in a variety of service roles to the profession. More recently she has served as a member of the NATA Pronouncements Committee and the Foundation Research Committee. She also serves as the co-chair of the Arizona Athletic Trainers’ Association Governmental Affairs Committee. In 2015, she was accepted as a Fellow of the NATA.