Speaker Bios
JAMIE REED
Jamie Reed, 57, is entering his 15th season with the Texas Rangers organization. From 1997 to 2002, Reed was head athletic trainer for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He also was the assistant athletic trainer for the Baltimore Orioles from 1989 to 1996. While at the Orioles, Reed shared “Major League Baseball Athletic Training Staff of the Year” honors in 1995 with Richie Bancells. Prior to his Major League appointment in 1989, Reed spent seven sea- sons in the Orioles’ Minor League system with teams in Bluefield (Rookie League), Hagerstown (Class A), Charlotte (Class AA) and Rochester (Class AAA). Reed is a former American League assistant athletic trainer representative on the PBATS Executive Commit- tee. He spoke at MLB’s 1999 Rookie Development Program. In December 2003 Reed traveled to Japan to address the Japanese Professional Baseball Athletics Trainers Society (JPBATS). He also served as one of the athletic trainers for the 2006 Japan All-Star trip. He has been selected as American League All-Star athletic trainer for both the 2000 and 2008 teams. In December 2001, he was selected by his peers as the new president of PBATS, and was re-elected to the position in 2003 and again in 2005. He also served on the Board as Immediate Past President until 2013. A native of Annapolis, MD., Reed served as athletic trainer for the U.S. Naval Academy’s football and basketball teams from 1982 to 1984, and again in 1988.Reed co-chairs the Red Romo Scholarship that provides the expenses to pay for an extra athletic trainer for the Naval Academy Sports Program. Reed lives in Grand Prairie, Texas, with his wife Jean. They have three children and seven grandchildren that all live in Texas.
NICK KENNEY
Nick Kenney, 46, is entering his Ninth season as head athletic trainer with the Kansas City Royals. He had spent the previous five years as the assistant athletic trainer with the Cleveland Indians after two years with the Cincinnati Reds. Kenney was the American League host for the 2012 MLB All-Star game. Prior to working in baseball, Kenney spent seven years as an athletic trainer with the Cincinnati Cyclones of the International Hockey League. The Wilmington, Ohio, native and Wilmington College graduate also worked from 2000 to 2002 as the program manager of sports medicine for TriHealth in Cincinnati. When not working, Kenney enjoys lifting weights and fishing. He lives in Overland Park, KS with wife, Patty, and their children, Paige, Colin, Nathan, and Madison.
RICK GRIFFIN
Rick “Griff” Griffin, 61, began his career in sports medicine as a teacher/athletic trainer at Winston Churchill High School in Eugene, Ore. in 1977. A native of Brigham City, Utah, Griffin moved to professional baseball in 1978 when he became an athletic trainer for the Eugene Emeralds, a Cincinnati Reds Minor League affiliate. In 1981, Griffin became a full- time athletic trainer for the Seattle-based Sports Medicine Clinic, before accepting the position of head athletic trainer for the Seattle Mariners in 1983. In May of 2015 Griffin worked his 5,000th game for the Mariners. A member of the NATA, ACSM, and the NWATS, Griffin has served as PBATS American League Athletic Trainer Representative from 1989-95, and worked at the MLB All-Star games in 1987, 1995, 2001, and 2010. He toured Japan with the Major League All-Stars in 1996 and lectured in Japan in 1994-1995, 1998, 2000-2002, 2014 and 2015. Griffin provides health care to the Montana Pro Rodeo Circuit Finals and is an avid hunter and fisherman. He lives in Bothell, Wash.
SCOTT SHERIDAN
Scott was named the Phillies’ head athletic trainer on October 20, 2006. The 2017 season is his sixteenth with the Phillies and twelfth as a major league athletic trainer. Previously, Scott was the coordinator of rehabilitation and minor league athletic trainers for the Phillies for four years (2003-06). A graduate of West Chester University and Neumann University, Scott earned his bachelor’s degree in athletic training from West Chester in 1991 and a master’s degree in physical therapy from Neumann in 1998 and is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers Association (1991) and American Physical Therapy Association (1998). In 2005, he attained certified strength and conditioning credentials from the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Before joining the Phillies, Scott worked 11 years as a staff physical therapist/athletic trainer at Chester County Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy (Physiotherapy Associates) in West Chester, PA and served as adjunct faculty at Neumann for three years. Scott and his staff were the recipients of the 2009 Dick Martin Award, given to the best athletic training staff in baseball by Baseball Prospectus. Scott currently serves on the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (PBATS) Executive Board as National League Representative along with serving on the Electronic Medical Records and Medical Advisory Committees. Scott was born on October 29, 1969, in Seaford, Del. He and his wife, Deborah, live in West Chester, Pa. They have one son, Scott Michael and one daughter, Emilee Lynn.
KEITH MEISTER, MD
Dr. Keith Meister is entering his 16th season as Head Team Physician of the Texas Rangers Major league baseball team. He spent the first 11 years of his career as a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopedics and Team physician at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. After being recruited by the Texas Rangers, in 2004 he moved to Arlington, Texas and founded TMI Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery. Since then they have grown into a multispecialty orthopedic practice with a specialization in sports medicine but most specifically in baseball medicine with a clinical and research focus in the care of the overhead athlete. The clinic also serves as an educational stop for numerous physical therapists, athletic trainers and advanced degree programs as part of their clinical training.
Over the extent of his career he has also held positions as team physician in the NHL and USA Hockey in the care of the national team program. He is a former editorial board member of the American Journal of Sports Medicine and Journal of Orthopedics, in addition to having authored numerous articles and book chapters. He continues to care for numerous collegiate and high school athletic programs.
TIMOTHY UHL
Dr. Uhl has been practicing physical therapy and athletic training since 1985 in various sport medicine settings. Tim received his bachelors in health science from the University of Kentucky in physical therapy. After three years of clinical practice at the Lexington Sports Medicine Center he went on to receive his masters’ degree in kinesiology from the University of Michigan. At Michigan he worked with the athletic programs and at MedSport their sports medicine outpatient center. He served both on the staff and as the director of outpatient physical therapy at the Human Performance and Rehabilitation Centers in Columbus, GA. He completed his doctorate in sports medicine from the University of Virginia in 1998 where he studied shoulder proprioception and is presently a Professor in the Division of Athletic Training, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, at the University of Kentucky.
STEPHANIE LAZARCZUK
A Sport Rehabilitator by trade, Stephanie graduated in 2010 from St Mary’s University, Twickenham. Clinical work has seen her fulfil an on-going role with Reading Football Club (soccer) and previous work in ice hockey, cricket and rugby union. Aside from working in sport, Stephanie also spent three years working as a Rehabilitation Instructor for the Ministry of Defence, rehabilitating injured service personnel from acute musculoskeletal injuries, to chronic pain disorders, as well as those with battle injuries. Stephanie has also completed a MSc in Strength and Conditioning before moving full circle and transitioning into full time lecturing at St Mary’s. She has recently completed a research project in conjunction with Swansea University, the University of Bath and the Rugby Football Union entitled ‘Investigating the Musculoskeletal Demands of Kicking in Rugby Union’ and she has a special interest in hamstring and hip and groin injuries.
JAMIE TALLENT
Jamie joined St Marys as a Senior Lecturer in Strength and Conditioning Science in May 2016. Previously he was the lead strength and condition coach for Derbyshire County Cricket Club for 5 years. He has over 10 years’ experience working in professional and developmental sport and currently supports international and national athletes. He is a UKSCA tutor and grants panel member. Jamie has a PhD investigating neurological adaptations to eccentric resistance training and has authored/co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. He specialises in eccentric muscle contractions, neurological adaptations to resistance training, acute neuromuscular fatigue and has an interest in cricket related research.
Julia Church
Julia Church is a private physiotherapist specialising in elite sports performance, rehabilitation and return to sport. Consultant to the English Cricket Board, the British Olympic Association, the English Institute of Sport, Bennetton Treviso Italy Rugby. She has taught at undergraduate and masters level and delivered lectures & workshops to multidisciplinary teams across Europe. She has a strong research interest in injury epidemiology.
Billy Senington
Billy is a Teaching Fellow in Biomechanics at the University of Surey. During various academic posts at St. Mary’s University, University of Surrey and Bournemouth University, he has taught across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes including Sports Science, Sports Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy and Strength and Conditioning. He has worked with elite athletes across a number of sports including men’s and women’s soccer, tennis, rugby, motor racing and cricket both in performance and rehabilitation settings. Through the development of new technology (inertial sensors) his PhD research highlights biomechanical risk factors for lower back pain in elite junior and senior fast bowlers in cricket. This work has been disseminated internationally as conference proceedings and journal articles. Billy’s background playing soccer and cricket, as well 12 years experience as a coach, has developed his passion to bridge to gap between research and practical applications in sport.
Luke Hughes, BSc, MSc
Luke, an exercise physiologist, completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in exercise physiology/immunology at Loughborough University and is now a lecturer at St. Mary’s University and UCL on the sport and exercise medicine master’s degree programme. He is undertaking his PhD involving a position as an honorary researcher at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health at University College London Hospital. His research involves the use of blood flow restriction training as a clinical musculoskeletal rehabilitation tool, focusing primarily on early post-surgery rehabilitation of patients following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. He has published multiple review and experimental papers in the topic area and is leading a randomized clinical trial in this patient cohort within the NHS. Luke has worked with the Football Association, West Ham United Football Club and the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sport and Exercise Medicine.