Consolo spends her days teaching health, fitness, wellness, and exercise science classes at Ohio University’s Zanesville campus. She also competed in the 1990 Senior Olympics, running the 10,000 meter event. Amazingly, she did so after being severely injured in a bad fall and needing physical therapy.

Dr. Fredricks is a physician, medical educator and veteran who draws on his 25 years of military experience and his practice of family and emergency medicine to inform his efforts to improve health care for veterans.

Dr. Dustin Grooms specializes in neuroplasticity and biomechanics with a focus on how a person’s brain changes after a muscular skeletal injury, such as an ACL injury. In particular, he looks at the impact of athletic injuries and orthopedics on the brain.

One of Grooms’ projects is a concussion program that studies how the brain changes after a concussion, using brain imaging and a virtual reality screen to challenge concussion victims. The technology is more sensitive to detect if a person has errors of senses in a concussed state.

Dr. Ice’s research interests include human biology, aging, stress, long-term care and grandparenting. For many years she has been looking at the impact of the HIV epidemic on older adults in Africa. As HIV has ravaged the middle generation, senior members of the community often look after the young, many of whom are orphans. Ice studies the impact of that relationship on the caregiver; their stress levels, their mental health, their physical health, diet and nutrition.  

Dr. Cheryl Howe believes understanding the behavior of children through accurate measurements is essential in combatting the childhood obesity epidemic. Her award-winning research on how to accurately measure children’s physical activity has led to the development of intervention programs that can be implemented to provide children with better exercise and ultimately prevent obesity.

Dr. Kenneth Johnson is a physician, educator and national leader in osteopathic and primary care medical education, who is directing a bold initiative to transform how osteopathic physicians are trained for the rapidly changing health care system of the 21 ^st century.

Dr. Morrone is an expert on food safety in America. A credentialed food safety professional, Morrone is also the former chief of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Education.

Morrone has focused her career on examining the relationship between environmental contamination and human health outcomes, including exploring disproportionate exposures in low-income areas.

McCarthy’s interest in helping those who can hear but cannot speak has led him to conduct innovative research in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), a field that focuses on helping individuals whose speech is so severely impaired that it does not meet their daily communication needs.

McCarthy says the use of sign language usually comes to mind when he speaks about his work, but AAC is more broadly focused on creating technologies to help those who can hear, but have speech impairments, find a way to effectively communicate with others.

Dr. Kopchick is an expert on growth hormone (GH). With over 20 years of research experience on human and animal GH, Kopchick and colleagues have focused on the molecular biology of GH in relation to growth, obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes and aging.

Dr. Chad Starkey traces his interest in the field of athletic training back to high school when he broke his ankle playing football and worked with athletic trainers at West Virginia University as part of his rehabilitation.