About me

Timothy E. Hewett Ph.D. is former Director of The Biomechanics Laboratories and Sports Medicine Research Center at Mayo Clinic and Director of the Sports Health & Performance Institute at The Ohio State University and Professor and Director of Sports Medicine Research at OSU and Professor and Director of the Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Research Foundation. He was a Professor in Sports Medicine, Family Medicine, Orthopaedic Surgery, Physiology and Cell Biology and Biomedical Engineering and Allied Health Professions at The OSU, Pediatrics and Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Professor in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Hewett possesses a doctorate in Physiology and Biophysics and a postdoctoral fellowships in Molecular Biology & Biomechanics, Pharmacolgy and Cell Biophysics and Human Biomechanics. Over four hundred of his research articles have appeared in peer-reviewed medical journals, with over 50,000 citations of his work in the medical literature. Dr. Hewett has an h-index over 113 and his research has received numerous awards, including the Excellence in Research Award, The O’donohue Award and the NCAA Award from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, The Rose Excellence in Research Award from The American Physical Therapy Association, The Research to Reality and Clint Thompson Awards from National Athletic Trainers Associations and the Young Investigator Award from the American Heart Association Dr. Hewett is a Fellow of American College of Sports Medicine and a member of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the Orthopaedic Research Society & American Physiological Society.