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Katie Walsh Flanagan, EdD, ATC, is a professor and director of the sports medicine and athletic training program in the department of health education and promotion at East Carolina University, where she has worked for more than 20 years. A Board of Certification (BOC) certified athletic trainer, Walsh Flanagan previously worked as a lecturer and assistant athletic trainer at California State University, Fresno, and as the head athletic trainer for the Chicago Power, a men’s professional soccer team. She has also assisted as an athletic trainer for various sports in international competitions, including the 1996 Summer Olympic Games and 1987 Pan American Games.

In 2012, Walsh Flanagan was elected to the North Carolina Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame. The organization named her the North Carolina Athletic Trainer of the Year–College/University in 2000 and 2006. She received the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer award from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association in 2010 and their Athletic Trainer Service award in 2006.

Micki Cuppett, EdD, ATC, is the executive director of the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE) after having served as its president and as a board member. She previously worked for 16 years as a professor of athletic training in the department of orthopedics and sports medicine at the University of South Florida, where she was the athletic training program director. She has also been a professor and director of athletic training education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

In addition to her work in academe, Cuppett has been an athletic trainer for three decades, having worked in high school, collegiate, military, and hospital settings. Cuppett is known internationally for her work with human patient simulators and interprofessional education, and she has often been an invited speaker at national and international conferences. She received the Athletic Trainer Service award from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association in 2007 and their Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer award in 2012.