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Biography - Dr. Tim Lightfoot is currently a Full Professor and former department chair of Kinesiology at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, as well as a faculty associate in the UNC Charlotte Motorsports Program. Dr. Lightfoot received his doctorate from the University of Tennessee, completed a research consultantship with NASA at Kennedy Space Center in the Biomedical Laboratory, and then a three year National Institute of Health postdoctoral research fellowship in the Division of Physiology at Johns Hopkins University.

He was an Assistant and Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University for 6 years, 2 years of which he was Chair of the department. Dr. Lightfoot has published over 30 scientific, peer-reviewed articles on the genetics of daily physical activity and exercise endurance, as well as the physiological response to high-G exposure and hemorrhage and is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health to conduct research on the genetics of physical activity and exercise.

Dr. Lightfoot is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, a Certified Exercise Specialist, a Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist, the Past-President of the Southeast Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the American College of Sports Medicine. He has been named Teacher of the Year twice at two different Universities and has been active in working in protection of human and animal subjects. He is married to a brilliant and beautiful woman (Faith), has five dogs (all nutcases), is a worship vocalist and sound technician at his church (la la la!) and races automobiles for fun (really!).

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