Mr. Sargent currently works as the Associate Director of Academic Services for Student-Athletes (ASSA) at the University of Notre Dame. His main responsibility is to provide academic counseling to the members of the University's Football team, a role he has had for the past eight years.

Dr. Sallis is a family physician practicing at Kaiser Permanente  Medical Center in Fontana, California and serving as Co-Director of their Sports Medicine Fellowship program.  He is a Past-President of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and currently chairs Exercise is Medicine™, a joint initiative of ACSM and the American Medical Association.  He also chaired the Healthcare Sector of the U.S. Physical Activity Plan and is the physician spokesperson for the “Every Body Walk!” cam...

Dr. Pivarnik received his PhD in Exercise Physiology from Indiana University, and then completed an NIH Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the St. Louis University School of Medicine Department of Physiology.  After spending seven years at the University of Houston, he relocated nearby to Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital.  For the past 19 years, he has been a Professor at Michigan State University, in the Departments of Kinesiology and Epidemiology & Biostatistics. Dr. Pivar...

Coach Johnson retired from coaching in 2011. Johnson received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of New Mexico.  He played three years of Professional baseball in the New York Mets organization.  In 1984 he became the successful head baseball coach at Texas A&M University, and over 21 seasons became the winningest coach in A&M history. In 2007 Coach J. became the head coach at Sam Houston State University, a program that had not had a winning record for eight seasons.  In...

Dr. Dennis Bramble received his undergraduate degree (zoology) from the University of California, Davis and his graduate training in vertebrate paleontology at U. C. Berkeley.  His research has been primarily in the area of functional vertebrate morphology, in which he has used engineering approaches to better understand the relationships between morphological structure and function, especially those involving locomotion.  He has subsequently used the results of this research to gain additional ...

Michael Hodges graduated from Texas A&M in 2010 with a Bachelor's degree in Sports Management and in 2011 with a Master's degree in Marketing.  Hodges is best remembered as the middle lineback for the 2010 Aggie football team.  He was selected as the AT&T Cotton Bowl Scholar-Athlete, was a first-team ESPN Academic All-America selection by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and a two-time All-Academic Big 12 selection. After transferring from the Air Force Academ...

Dr. Stella Lucia Volpe is Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition Sciences at Drexel University.  She is also Co-Director of their newly established Center for Integrated Nutrition and Performance. Dr. Volpe is a nutritionist and exercise physiologist who has built a program of research focusing on three interrelated areas that traverse the lifespan: 1) obesity and diabetes prevention via mineral supplementation, 2) weight management through diet, exercise and educational programs, an...

Dr. Jacques Dallaire received his doctorate in exercise physiology from the University of Alberta (Canada) in 1979. He taught at McGill University in Montreal for five years before becoming the Manager of Science and Medicine Programs at Sport Canada (a division of the Canadian Ministry of Fitness and Amateur Sport). While at Sport Canada, Dr. Dallaire was responsible for the Sport Science Support Program which provided funding to more than forty national sport governing bodies. He was also on t...

Dr. Noah Dean is a Texas native who is deeply involved in the world of fitness, health, and wellness. He has a M.S. in Kinesiology from Angelo State University and a Ph.D. in Motor Neuroscience from Texas A&M University in 2009.  In 2009 he became a certified personal trainer through the American College of Sports Medicine. 

Dr. Wendy Kohrt is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She is the Director of Research for Geriatric Medicine and the Director of the IMAGE research group (Investigations in Metabolism, Aging, Gender, and Exercise). Dr. Kohrt’s research focuses on age-related changes in metabolism, sex steroids, and body composition, and on novel factors that influence musculoskeletal health and physical function in aging. Dr. Kohr...