Tusculum College Athletic Training Student Amanda Grempel interviews NATA Hall of Fame member John Lopez about his career and experiences in Athletic Training.  John currently serves as Newberry College's (SC) Assistant Athletic Director for Athletic Training.

Kevin King is finishing his first full year with the Carolina Panthers.  He checked in with ATPodcast after returning from the NFL combine in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Jeff Bodenhamer serves as Rehabilitation Coordinator for the Texas Rangers Baseball Club.  He talked with ATPodcast about his education and career including his work at various levels of professional baseball.

Nova Southeastern's Dustin Gatens joins us again for a discussion on some new things going on at NSU as well as in athletic training education.  We also talk a bit about some developments in NCAA D-II and tell some embarassing Pradeep Vanguri stories...

Several Certified Athletic Trainers joined ATPodcast for a roundtable discussion of the NATA's Executive Committee on Education white paper report and recommendations of the entry-level master's degree as the most appropriate degree for professional preparation of AT's.  Sara Brown, former chair of the ECE was able to join us and was helpful in providing insight into the process and decisions behind the recommendation.  Also, Dr. Michael McGee of Lenoir Rhyne University talked about the transition his program made to ELM a couple years ago.  A very informative episode.  Thanks also to Dr. Pradeep Vanguri, Todd Hirsch, Brad Morgan, Kristi Messina, and Ryan Wantz for their participation!

I asked selected speakers at the Tennessee Athletic Trainers' Society Symptosium in Nashville, Tennessee this weekend to summarize their presentations.  Dr. David Liddle of Vanderbilt University Medical Center summarizes his presentation on running injuries.  Dr. Gary Solomon, clinical neuropsychologist for the Nashville Predators and Tennessee Titan and co-director of the Vanderbilt Sport Concussion Center discusses current research in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Emergency physician Dr. Warne Fitch describes some take-home points from his presentation, "Little Known Signs of Well Known Problems". Finally, Dr. Richard Duroucher discusses visual impairments and activity.

Pradeep and I talk reflect upon our 2013 and the direction of the podcast in 2014.  I sing a little Julio Iglasias.  Minimal educational content in this one... hey, it's not like you're getting CEU's for this anyway!  Enjoy!

Jessika Hunt is in her seventh year at University of California Riverside.  Prior to that, she served for three years as Director of Sports Medicine/Head Athletic Trainer at Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmetsburg, Maryland.  Jessika talks about her rewarding career as a Certified Athletic Trainer.

Jeremy Jackson is an athletic trainer and teacher at Pasadena High School just outside of Houston, TX.  He and his Sports Medicine students produce a series of interviews with athletic trainers and guests talking about sports medicine-related issues and I joined him to compare notes.  His series can be found here: sportsmedicinebroadcast.com

Pretty much just me talking about me.  Better content next time.  This episode ends with a montage of recognition previous podcast subjects have given their mentors.