Episode 4: Johna Register-Mihalik, PhD, University of North Carolina

Johna Register-Mihalik, PhD, LAT, ATC, FACSM, FNATA is an associate professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina. She is the co-director of the STAR Heel Performance Laboratory. She is a founding and core faculty of 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 and her master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral work training at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Dr. Register-Mihalik’s research interests include the negative consequences, prevention, education, and clinical management of sport and recreational traumatic brain injury. Her primary work centers on novel behavioral and clinical interventions to improve the prevention and care for concussion across the lifespan. She has received several research grants to pursue this line of work. Her work has been published in various sports medicine and brain injury journals. Dr. Register-Mihalik is also an active member of many professional organizations, including the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, NATA, and the American College of Sports Medicine, ACSM.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome & Intro
• 1:41 Family, Childhood, & Talking Tomatoes
• 6:01 First Job & Career Aspirations
• 7:54 Discovering a Passion for Learning & Reading
• 9:36 College, Concussions, & Clinical Rotations
• 15:25 How would your parents describe what you do for a living?
• 16:13 Family
• 17:32 What is the most important thing you learned in life?
• 20:10 Morning Routine, Hobbies, & What are you not good at?
• 23:18 Rapid Fire Questions