Johna Register-Mihalik, PhD, LAT, ATC, FACSM, FNATA
Associate Professor, Exercise and Sports Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Johna Register-Mihalik, PhD, LAT, ATC, FACSM, FNATA is an Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science. She is the Co-Director, alongside Dr. Adam Kiefer, of the STAR Heel Performance Laboratory and is founding and core faculty in the Matthew Gfeller Center. She also serves as Core Faculty with the Injury Prevention Research Center and as the Traumatic Division Director for the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Alabama in Athletic Training and her master’s, Athletic Training, doctoral, Human Movement Science, and postdoctoral, Neuroscience, training at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Lightning Talk Description: This interactive interprofessional activity demonstrates how health professionals work cooperatively to treat patients with a traumatic brain injury (TBI); helping students to understand a patient's journey from the moment of injury through the continuum of in-patient and outpatient care. Students from Athletic Training, Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling, Dentistry, Education, Exercise Sports Science, Medicine, Nursing, and Speech and Hearing Sciences participated. Utilizing a ‘double jigsaw’ approach and interactive videos, students are guided…