EXSS Faculty By Name
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Athletic Training, Fitness Professional
Coordinator of the Fitness Professional Concentration
Director, Undergraduate Fitness Professional Program
(919) 843-2033 | alaguila@email.unc.edu
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Assistant Professor – Athletic Training
Director, Psychology of Sport Injury Laboratory
MOTION Science Institute
(919) 445-1500 | sbaez@email.unc.edu
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Director, Lifetime Fitness Program
(919) 962-0233 | bbatt@email.unc.edu
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Director, Graduate Exercise Physiology Specialization
Co-Director, Exercise Oncology Laboratory
(919) 843-6045 | claudio@email.unc.edu
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Associate Director, MOTION Science Institute
(919) 843-2021 | troyb@email.unc.edu
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(919) 843-4507 | mnm3303@email.unc.edu
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Co-Director, Exercise Oncology Laboratory
(919) 962-0816 | edhanson@email.unc.edu
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(919) 962-0959 | jajensen@email.unc.edu
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(919) 962-2986 | zkerr@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor – Exercise and Sport Science
Co-Director, STAR Heel Performance Laboratory
(919) 962-0751 | awkiefer@email.unc.edu
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Director, National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research
(919) 843-8357 | kkucera@email.unc.edu
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Co-Director, Matthew Gfeller Center
O: 919.962.2573 | L: 919.962.0409 | F: 919.962.7060
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Joseph Curtis Sloane Distinguished Professor of Exercise and Sport Science
Associate Provost for Academic Operations
Associate Director, MOTION Science Institute
dpadua@email.unc.edu
Twitter: @DarinPadua
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Director, MOTION Science Institute
(919) 962-3617 | pietrosi@email.unc.edu
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Co-Director, Center of Research and Intercollegiate Athletics
(919) 445-9364 | nelspopp@email.unc.edu
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(919) 445-1515 | apratt@email.unc.edu
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Coordinator Post-Professional Athletic Training Specialization
(919) 962-5174 | prentice@email.unc.edu
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Adjunct, Department of Health Sciences
Director, Exercise Science Teaching Laboratory
Associate Director, MOTION Science Institute
Coordinator, Exercise Physiology Graduate Program
(919) 962-0297 | edryan@email.unc.edu
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(919) 962-2577 | leeschim@email.unc.edu
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Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Graduate Admissions
(919) 962-3351 | Ed.Shields@unc.edu
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Director, Applied Physiology Laboratory
Co-Director, Human Performance
(919) 962-2574 | abbsmith@email.unc.edu
Twitter: @asmithryan
![Lee Stoner-resize-150x150](https://exss.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/779/2014/09/Lee-Stoner-resize-150x150.jpg)
(919) 962-0534 | stonerl@email.unc.edu
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Director, Center for Research in Intercollegiate Athletics
(919) 448-4870 | eweight@unc.edu
Twitter: @ErianneWeight
- Deborah Bialeschki
- John Billing
- Bonita Marks
- Robert G. McMurray
- Frederick O. Mueller
- Frank Pleasants
- John Silva