Kim Barber Foss has 35 years of experience as a certified athletic trainer. She has Bachelor’s degrees in athletic training and sociology from North Dakota State University; Master’s degrees in sports medicine and biomechanics from the University of Oregon and a PhD from Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions. She has worked in the collegiate, high school, and clinic settings, but her passion is working with high school and youth athletes. Kim lives by the motto that an athletic trainer should “provide care not coverage.

Kim has published extensively, most notably in injury epidemiology, biomechanics, and brain injury. In Iowa she was the coordinator for the large-scale NATA project, the National High School Sports Injury Registry and athletic trainer at Linn-Mar High School. She spent sixteen years as a Senior Research Assistant in the Sports Medicine Division at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital where she was involved with biomechanics, epidemiology, and concussion research and was also the Director of the BNA Lab in the SPORT Center. She also maintained her clinical hat as the athletic trainer at Lockland High School for ten years.In 2021 Kim undertook a new role as an Associate Research Scientist in the new state-of-the-art EMORY Sports Performance And Research Center (SPARC) located at the Atlanta Falcons Flowery Branch headquarters. The goal of SPARC is to serve as the nation’s leading center for research and dissemination of injury prevention for sport in young athletes. Kim’s primary roles at SPARC will be to bridge innovative research with improving patient outcomes, creating a team focused on integrating new evidence-based practice with superior point of care service, to lead the way in this integrated lab to field research approach.

Kim is an adjunct professor at Northern Kentucky University where she teaches Research Methods. She is also an Assistant Professor at Rocky Mountain University of Health Sciences and teaches in their health sciences masters, MSATP, and PhD programs, She is a member of the NATA, SEATA, and GATA, as well as the National Academy of Practice- AT Academy. Kim currently serves on the NATA Specialty Awards Committee, NATA Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE) and NATA International Committee. She previously served on NATA COPA Analytics and Outcomes Committee, and SEATA Marcom and Research and Education committees. Kim was on the Board of Directors of the National Operating Committee on the Standards of Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) representing the NATA and in 2021 she became the Research Director for NOCSAE. She received the 2018 Gatorade Secondary School Athletic Trainer of the Year District 4, 2019 NATA Service Award, 2020 NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award, and 2020 NATA Secondary School Athletic Trainer of the Year award District 4. She was also selected as the 2019 Girl Scouts of Western Ohio Woman of Distinction.