OMNI Staff and Membership Directory
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Assistant Professor & Investigator of the Ohio Musculoskeletal & Neurological Institute; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Faculty Fellow in Aging Systems Physiology
email address
baumann@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2174
Biomedical Sciences
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
Life Science Building
Expertise: Skeletal Muscle, Aging, Frailty, Neuromuscular Physiology, Adaptations to Exercise
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Prof., Physiology & Neuroscience; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Harold E. Clybourne, D.O., Endowed Research Chair
email address
clarkb2@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2354
Biomedical Sciences
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
Irvine
Expertise: Aging Systems & Geriatrics, Human, Exercise, Integrative, & Neuromuscular Physiology Muscle Biology, Neurophysiology

Leatha Clark, DPT
Research Assistant Professor
email address
clarkl2@ohio.edu
phone number
740-593-2246
Biomedical Sciences
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Physical Therapy, Aging Systems, Pediatrics
Associate Professor, Microanatomy; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O.; Endowed Faculty Fellow in Enhanced Metabolic Aging
email address
consitt@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2404
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
Academic and Research Center
Expertise: Metabolism, Aging Systems, Muscle Physiology

John Cotton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
email address
cotton@ohio.edu
phone number
740-593-9970
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
255 Stocker
Expertise: Mechanics of biomaterials, mechanical simulation and modeling
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Mitchell Day, PhD
Associate Professor
email address
daym1@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.4798
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Expertise: Sensorineural coding in binaural hearing.
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Distinguished Professor of Psychology
email address
france@ohio.edu
phone number
740-593-1097
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
251 Porter Hall
Expertise: Health psychology, Pain, Blood Donor Motivation
CTRU Medical Director; Associate Professor
email address
fredrick@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.0410
Clinical and Translational Research Unit
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Research and Grants
Specialty Medicine
location
Athens
building location
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Full Spectrum Family Medicine, Organizational Strategic Planning, Military and Aerospace Medicine
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Jen-Tzer Gau, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
email address
gau@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2136
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Primary Care
location
Athens
building location
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Geriatric Medicine
Professor of Clinical Neuroscience; Gary Chleboun Scholar of Physical Therapy
email address
groomsd@ohio.edu
phone number
740-593-2552
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
W283 Grover Center
Expertise: Neuroscience, sensorimotor control, biomechanics, orthopedics, sports medicine
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Robert Hikida, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences
email address
hikida@ohio.edu
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Expertise: Development, maintenance, and rejuvenation of muscles.

John Howell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus, Physiology
email address
howell@ohio.edu
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
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Nicholas Karayannis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy
email address
nvkaray@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.1044
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
W295 Grover Center
Expertise: Adaptive mind-body interventions for pain management
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Chang Liu, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science
email address
liuc@ohio.edu
phone number
740-593-1249
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
321c Stocker
Expertise: Software engineering

Huanhuan Liu, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
email address
liuh1@ohio.edu
Biomedical Sciences
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
Life Science Building
Expertise: Joint degeneration, Orthopedic biology

Jundong Liu, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
email address
liuj1@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.1603
Diabetes Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
building location
Stocker 321A
Expertise: Medical image analysis, machine learning, computer vision, human motion detection and classification and shape modeling.

Anne Loucks, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology
email address
loucks@ohio.edu
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
Expertise: Exercise Endocrinology, bone
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Graciela Muniz-Terrera, PhD
Professor, Social Medicine; Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Professor in Health and Aging
email address
muniz@ohio.edu
Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Social Medicine
location
Athens
building location
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Aging, brain health, epidemiology, biostatistics
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Associate Professor, Psychology
email address
petersb@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.1707
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
Expertise: Stress and psychophysiology in social relationships
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Professor; Director, Histology Core Facility
email address
rosolt@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2405
Biomedical Sciences
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
Irvine Hall
Expertise: Endocrine and Bone Pathology; Toxicologic Pathology; Cancer Metastasis; Drug Discovery & Safety; Food Safety.
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Janet Simon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Applied Statistics and Epidemiology
email address
simonj1@ohio.edu
phone number
740-597-1876
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
E146 Grover Center
Expertise: Patient-reported outcomes, epidemiology, and clinical research design and analyses

Robert Staron, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus, Anatomy
email address
staron@ohio.edu
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens

Julie Suhr, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training
email address
suhr@ohio.edu
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
Expertise: Geriatric neuropsychology
Professor, Biomedical Sciences and Executive Director of Research Initiatives
email address
szewczyk@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.9169
Biomedical Sciences
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
Research and Grants
location
Athens
building location
Life Science Building
Expertise: Muscle, Mitochondria, Translational Medicine
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Brooke Vaughan, DPT
Assistant Clinical Professor
email address
vaughanb@ohio.edu
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
Expertise: Neurorehabilitation
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Professor, Anatomy; Associate Dean of Faculty
email address
willias7@ohio.edu
phone number
740.593.2363
Biomedical Sciences
Executive Dean's Office
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
building location
Heritage Hall
Expertise: Oral Physiology, Musculoskeletal Biomechanics, Sensorimotor Integration
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Associate Professor, Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Ralph S. Licklider, D.O. Endowed Professor
email address
zhus1@ohio.edu
Biomedical Sciences
Diabetes Institute
Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute
location
Athens
building location
Life Science Building 133
Expertise: Cartilage Biology, Aging and Metabolism, Osteoarthritis