Director of Research, OSU Sports Medicine
Professor, Departments of Physiology & Cell Biology, Family Medicine, Orthopaedics and Biomedical Engineering
Education and Background
Biography
Timothy E. Hewett PhD, FACSM, is Director of Research at Ohio State University Sports Medicine. Dr. Hewett is a Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Cell Biology, Orthopaedic Surgery, Family Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, as well as the School of Allied Medical Professions at The Ohio State University. Dr. Hewett has a doctorate in Physiology and Biophysics and post-doctoral fellowships in Molecular Biology and Biomechanics.
Dr. Hewett has more than 175 peer-reviewed publications that have over 8,000 citations in the published literature and has authored a book and many book chapters. He is a permanent member of the National Institutes of Health MRS Study Section and is on the Editorial board for several medical journals. He is an international expert in the field of injury prevention, especially of ACL injuries. Dr. Hewett has received several prestigious awards, including the NCAA, Excellence in Research and O’Donoghue Awards from the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine, the Rose Excellence in Research Award from the American Physical Therapy Association, and a Young Investigator’s Award from the American Heart Association. In 2010 Dr. Hewett received the Clint Thompson Award for best research paper from the National Athletic Trainers Association.
In 2011 he received a Development Award from the OSU Center for Clinical and Translational Science to promote his ACL injury prevention programs. He has been keynote speaker at many national and international conferences. His work has been cited on multiple occasions in well over 100 lay press journals, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fox News and CBS. Dr. Hewett is a member of the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine, The Orthopaedic Research Society and The American Physiological Society and is a Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine.
