Fundamentals of Athletic Training and Sports Medicine

Lorin A. Cartwright, MS, ATC, has extensive experience in all aspects of instruction of student athletic trainers. She was the first woman to graduate from Grand Valley State University with a degree in athletic training, and she went on to earn a master’s degree in education from the University of Michigan. She was the head athletic trainer, assistant principal, and athletic director at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she served for more than 32 years. She was an adjunct professor in athletic training at the University of Michigan for three years and also taught at Eastern Michigan University and Concordia University.

Cartwright was also the first woman to serve as president of the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers Association (GLATA). She was appointed by the governor of Michigan to the Michigan Board of Athletic Trainers and the state’s Task Force on Women in Sports. She has been an active member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee, recent cochair of the Michigan Athletic Trainers’ Society Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, and is currently working on the NATA Honors and Awards Committee.

Highly regarded in her field, Cartwright received NATA’s Gail Weldon Award of Excellence in 2022. She was also the recipient of NATA’s Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award in 2018, GLATA’s Golden Pinnacle Award in 2016, and GLATA’s Outstanding Educator Award in 2010. She has been inducted into the Ann Arbor Pioneer High School Hall of Fame, the Michigan Athletic Trainers’ Society Hall of Fame, the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame, and the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame.

Kimberly S. Peer, EdD, ATC, FNATA, FNAP, is a full professor in the athletic training department at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. She holds a doctorate in higher education administration with a cognate in health care management from the University of Akron. She teaches in the areas of professional development, ethics for health care providers, education and supervision, and scientific writing. Before coming to Kent State University, Peer was on the faculty of University of Mount Union (formerly Mount Union College) and served as the director of the Academy for Health and Sport Science and as coordinator for sports medicine at the Rehabilitation and Health Center. Prior to beginning her clinical and academic positions, Peer received her master’s degree in athletic training from Western Michigan University and her bachelor’s degree from Kent State University.

In addition to having served as the editor in chief for the Athletic Training Education Journal, Peer serves on the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Executive Council for Education and the NATA Committee on Professional Ethics. She also serves on the Board of Certification (BOC) Standards Committee. Her statewide service includes the governor’s appointment to the Ohio licensure board and over 12 years of leadership service, including as president of the Ohio Athletic Trainers’ Association (OATA).

Peer is a fellow of the NATA and a distinguished scholar fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP). She is a member of the NATA Hall of Fame (2024 class), was awarded NATA’s Gail Weldon Award of Excellence in 2023, and received NATA’s Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award. In addition, she was inducted into the OATA Hall of Fame in 2012 and earned the Dan Libera Service Award from the BOC in 2014. She has also been lauded with other national, regional, and state-level awards for her contributions to the profession and to athletic training education, including NATA’s Sayers “Bud” Miller Distinguished Educator Award, GLATA’s Outstanding Educator Award, and OATA’s Linda Weber Daniel Outstanding Mentor Award. She has published and presented extensively on ethics education and pedagogy, and she has coauthored textbooks on professional ethics and fundamentals in athletic training.