NCATE-VITA

Kevin T. Kear, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Health and Physical Education

Appointed Fall 2004

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D. Major: Clinical Exercise Science, The Ohio State University,1983

Post M.S. Major: Adult Fitness and Cardiac Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse,1979

M.S. Major: Physical Education and Recreation, Indiana State University,1978

B.S. Major: Physical Education & Health Ithaca College,1974:

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:

Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Physical Education and Wellness, Arkansas Tech Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate students, advising Health, Physical Education and Wellness Science majors, teaching 12 semester hours, Human Performance Laboratory maintenance and services, performing research.

2004- 2002 Clinical Health and Fitness Inc.: Research of products and development of performance enhancement products, beverages, electronic devices, bone mending device.

Services include Muscle Testing and training of professional athletes

Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT), Posture Analysis, Disability Testing

Exercise Prescription and exercise for Quadriplegics and other neurological injuries and diseases.

2001-2002: Leader Sports Medicine, 1775 Woodstock Rd., Roswell GA 30075

Responsibilities: Operating Human Performance Laboratory, muscle testing and training of professional athletes, Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT), Posture Analysis, Disability Testing

Exercise Prescription

1999-2001: Life University, 1269 Barclay Circle, College of Chiropractic, Research Department, Marietta, GA 30060

Responsibilities: The Influence of Subluxation on Athletic Performance, The DELPP Program: Dynamic of Essential Levels of Peak Performance, Teaching: Graduate Studies, Chiropractic and Sports Health Sciences,

1998-1999: Clinical Health & Fitness Inc.: Responsibilities: Muscle Testing for Personal Injuries, Workmen Compensation cases, Disability Impairment Ratings, Certified by: The National Association of Disability Evaluators, level II. Working for independent Doctors of Chiropractic, and lawyers

1994-1998: Pensacola Junior College, 5988 Highway 90 W, Milton FL 32583-1798

Director, L.I.F.E. Center, Milton Campus, (Lifestyle Improvement and Fitness Education, Center). Responsibilities: To maintain the daily operations of the 35,000 square foot LIFE Center, including: building management, maintenance, scheduling facilities; hiring and training employees, staff 10 employees, Teaching Responsibilities: Teaching and advising for the promotion and implementation of healthy life styles and to teach to AS nursing and physical therapy students and to General AA students. and “First Aid and CPR” and “CPR for the Professional Rescuer”. Establish cardiac, diabetic, osteoporoses rehabilitation programs. To promote healthy cooking and nutrition information through the classroom environment and to the community through health fairs and meetings. To encourage outside involvement of students with the American Cancer Society in the “Relay For Life” campaign. Assist UWF students as an Internship site. Assist in the local Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance professionals of Santa Rosa County and Adaptive P.E. with their regional meetings. Assist in PTA and elementary Health Fairs. New class development: Juvenile Justice Exercise Program. Completed three years Professional Credentialing Certification

1995-97: Adjunct Instruction: University of West Florida: (Master degree program) Exercise Physiology

Exercise Prescription

1991-1992: Administrative Director of Exercise Physiology, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Hermann Hospital, Nutrition & Human Performance Center, Houston, TX. Responsibilities: Out-Patient Executive Fitness Testing: Musculoskeletal Evaluation, Exercise Prescription & Client Consultations.

1989-1991: Senior Research Scientist-United State Space Program, Space Shuttle (Extended Duration Orbiter EDO) and Space Station Programs Exercise Countermeasures Project, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. KRUG Life Sciences. Responsibilities: Exercise Countermeasures Project, Space Biomedical Research Institute. Duties include the development, writing and implementation of research proposals internal to NASA for shuttle Orbiter and Space Station studies for exercise in space. Pre to immediately post-flight fitness testing of astronauts after flight.

1988-1989: East Tennessee State University, Assistant Professor: Director, Wellness and Research Institute, Department of Physical Education and Recreation, Johnson City, TN. Responsibilities: undergraduate and graduate Physical Education and Exercise Physiology classes. Operate Human Performance Laboratory

1986-1988: University of California Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor: Director of the Wellness and Fitness Inst. Responsibilities: Undergraduate

1985- 1986: Exercise Physiology Consultants: Hamilton Square, New Jersey. Self-employed, specializing in hospital and physician join ventures for: Cardiac, pulmonary and diabetic rehabilitation.

1983-1985: Administrative Director Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Programs. Institute For Medicine In Sports. Hamilton Hospital, Hamilton Township N.J. Responsibilities: Phase III and community based Wellness Programs. Development and implement: cardiac, pulmonary, diabetic rehabilitation and exercise programs for fire fighters.

1980-1983: The Ohio State University, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Adult Fitness and the Cardiac Rehabilitation & Faculty Fitness. Teaching undergraduate courses for the Physical Education, Recreation Program, Exercise Physiology Dept.

1979-80: Adjunct, Southern Connecticut State College & Fitness Director for The American Heart Association, Responsibilities: Director of The New Haven Cardiac Rehabilitation, Phase III,

Co-appointment (adjunct) at Southern Connecticut State College: Undergraduate Exercise Physiology

1979: University of Wisconsin LaCrosse, Internship Seattle, Washington: Boeing Aircraft Corporation, Seattle, WA. Cardiac Rehabilitation

1978-79: LaCrosse, Wisconsin: Post master experience: Teach undergraduate Assessment to Physical Therapy Students, Exercise Leader, LaCrosse Exercise Program, LaCrosse, WI. Adult Fitness, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Assist with Technologist Workshops, for the American College of Sports medicine

1974-1977: St. Lawrence Central School, Brasher Falls, New York. Public Junior High and High School Physical Education Instructor, Driver Education. Coaching: H.S. LaCrosse, varsity basketball, women's varsity soccer, JV football. Coaching interests: volley ball, soccer, track and field.

Faculty Load: Full- Time: 12 credit hours per semester, Fall and Spring

Departmental Service:

Search Committee Fall, Elementary Assistant Professor Search 2004

Grade Appeal Committee: Spring 2005

Health, Physical Education and Wellness Science Club

REFEREED PRESENTATIONS:

2003: Shoulder Stabilization for Cervical Range of Motion Measurements: The Effect of Hand and Arm Position on Measurement Outcomes. Charles A Lantz, Stephane Roy, Emeka Chidebelu, BS, Steve Swindle, Kevin Kear, Ph.D.,Sid Williams Research Center, Life University, College of Chiropractic, Marietta GA 30062 Research presentation, Orlando FL, April

2001:

Kelp Food Supplementation To Improved Overall Health For Young Children Inhabitants of Contaminated Radionulclides Territories of Rivne Region (Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident), A USA and Ukrainian Cooperative International Investigation. *Wannamaker WW III, Lelchitski N, IIyinykh I, Boyarska OY, Lorzun VN, Cbumak AA, Bruslova EM, Cheban AK, *Kear KT. Research Center for Radiation Medicine of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Ukraine, Kiev and *Life University. International Journal of Radiation Medicine 2001, 3 (1-2) and the Abstracts of the 3^rd International Conference/ International Radiation Medicine

1993: American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) "Maximal Isokinetic Strength Testing Of Cardiac Patients Before & After Two Types of Rehabilitation" Presentation for Annual meeting in October, 1993

1993: Group Achievement Award: Aaron Cohen of NASA, The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Exercise Countermeasure Project, Isokinetic work of "Astronaut Strength Testing Before and After Space Flight",

1993: A new model for estimating total body water from bioelectrical resistance" Steven F. Siconolfi, Ph.D., 1. and Kevin T. Kear, Ph.D., 2. (1. NASA Johnson Space Center and 2. KRUG Life Sciences, Inc., Houston, TX 77058)

1993: Leg volume and blood changes after 7 days of bed rest, using a liquid Carbohydrate diet " Kevin T.

Kear, Ph.D. 1, Helen Lane, Ph.D. 2., Steven F. Siconolfi, Ph.D.,2. (1. NASA Johnson Space Center and 2. KRUG Life Sciences, Inc., Houston, TX 77058)

1991 Hamdy RC, Anderson JK, Jameson D, Kear KT, "The Effects of Different Programs On The Skeleton". James Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University and Krug Life Sciences, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston. Annals of Sports Medicine, April,

1991:KT Kear, L Murray, Gilbert A. "Exercise Prescription Specificity Comparing Upright Treadmill to Seated Ergometry Rowing Exercise".

Aerospace Medical Association, May

1990: Kear KT, Anderson J, Hamdy R. "Humeral, Leg and Skeletal Bone Densities Of Weight Lifters and Crossed Trained Athletes" Aerospace Medical Association, New Orleans, May

1990 K.T.Kear, B.A Harris, J.C Hayes, A.D. Mazzocca, M.L. Roper, L.H. Barrows, B.A. Harris, and S.F. Siconolfi, FACSM. "The Effects Of Bedrest On The Relationships Among Strength And Endurance Measures Of The Quadriceps And Hamstrings". The American College Of Sports Medicine, National Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 22,

1990: Kear KT, Hayes JC, Harris BA, Siconolfi SE, * (Spon Squires WG), "Muscle Performance, and Leg Volume Changes After Seven Days Of Bed Rest". Federation Of American Societies For Experimental Biology, FASEB, Wahshington DC, April.

1989: Kear KT, Hamdy RC, Whalen K. " Bone Density And Nutritional Changes Of A Competitive Power Lifter Following Deconditioning Then Conditioning Over a Five Month Period. Exercise Countermeasures Project Workshop, NASA, Houston TX, Oct.

1986: Selected by AAHPERD Research Council of Dissertations: Cardiac Swimming and A Traditional Rehabilitation Program of Bike-Walk-Job: A comparison of Maximal Oxygen Consumption and Strength, Kear, Kevin Timothy, # 616.12, University of Oregon Microform Publications, Eugene, Oregon, 1986

1985: Cardiac Swimming and The Development of a System for Emergency Defibrillation In a Pool Environment. K.T. Kear, S. Schall, R.L. Bartels, FACSM, F. Davis, C. Busby, K. Berardinelli, T.E. Kirby. The Sept. of HPER, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210 Abstracts 8th Annual Mid-Atlantic Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, Pennsylvania State College,.

1985: Cardiac Swimming and a Traditional Rehabilitation Program of Bike-Walk-Jog: A Comparison of Maximal Oxygen Consumption. K.T. Kear, K. Beradinelli, R.L. Bartels FACSM, T.E. Kirby, R.L. Hamlin, S. Schall, C. Busby, T. Chodzin, M. Kelsey, M. Kurascz. The Dept. of HPER, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 43210, Abstracts of the 8th Annual Mid-Atlantic Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, Pennsylvania State College

INVITED PRESENTATIONS:

Formulation of the Exercise Prescription for Cardiac Patients, Garden State Symposium, co-sponsored by The American College of Sports Medicine in Cooperation with Hamilton Hospital's Sports Medicine Institute, 1984

Exercise for a Healthy Heart, WRKO Channel 9 presentation via The New Jersey American Heart Association, 1984

Exercise Program for Cardiac Patients and The Use of Wireless Space Age Telemetry Units, WPV1-TV, Channel 6, Philadelphia, The Trentonian. Jan. 29, 1984

The Development of the Exercise Prescription for Dancers, Both Aerobic and Anaerobic Considerations, Dance Symposium, Sports Medicine Institute of Hamilton Hospital, March 4, 1984.

City Rotary, Nov. 1988

PRESENT AND OR PERMANENT CERTIFICATIONS:

2002- Current Neuromuscular Therapist, FL (NMT)

1998- Current National Association of Disability Evaluating Professionals- NADEP #46 National

1974- Current: Permanent-Public School Certification from New York State

Primary and Secondary (K-12), Physical Education & Health, Education Department, 1974

1974-Current: Permanent-Driver Education Certificate, N.Y. State #A-8363

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Current: American College of Sports Medicine

Current: NMT: Neuromuscular Therapy

1999-Current: NADEP: National Association for Disability Evaluating Professionals