Michael Sitler
Michael Sitler , ATC, FNATA, is Interim Dean of the College of Health Professions and Social Work. He is also Professor of Kinesiology in the College of Health Professions and Social Work at Temple University and for eleven years was Chair of the Department of Kinesiology.
Dr. Sitler is recent past President of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Research and Education Foundation and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Athletic Training and Journal of Sport Rehabilitation.
He is the recipient of the Phi Kappa Phi Recognition Award for Scholarly Achievement (1987), the American Academy of Orthopaedic Society O’Donoghue Award for outstanding research (1989), the Henry Albert Scientific Presentation Award (1993), the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching (1997), the East Stroudsburg University Alumnus Achievement Award (1997), and the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers’ Society Distinguished Merit Award (2004). In 2008, he was inducted into the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainer Society’s Hall of Fame and in 2009, as a fellow in the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. In 2010, he received the Bud Sayers Miller Distinguished Educator Award of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.
His research on evidence-based practice in athletic training and sports medicine is nationally and internationally recognized and is with focused on interventions to reduce unintentional injuries and post-surgical outcomes. He has published 48 articles in peer-reviewed journals; made 35 invited presentations at international, national, regional and state professional meetings; and had the results of 75 research studies accepted for presentation at scientific meetings.
He earned his EdD in Physical Education from New York Universiy and his MS and B. from East Stroudsburg State College.