David H. Perrin

David H. Perrin, PhD, FNATA, FACSM, FNAK, has over 40 years of experience as an athletic training educator, clinician and researcher. He is a Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus of the College of Health at the University of Utah.

He previously served at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro — first as dean of the School of Health and Human Performance from 2001 to 2007 and then as provost and executive vice chancellor from 2007 to 2014. Prior to that, Perrin directed the athletic training education master’s degree program and sports medicine doctoral program at the University of Virginia from 1986 to 2001.

His awards and honors from the National Athletic Trainers’ Association include the Sayers “Bud” Miller Distinguished Educator Award, the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award, the William G. Clancy Medal for Distinguished Athletic Training Research, induction into the NATA Hall of Fame and the NATA Research and Education Foundation Lifetime Contribution Award. He is also recipient of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award.

Perrin is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and a fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology. For 13 years, he was also a member of the NATA Professional Education Committee, helping to write the guidelines for accreditation of both undergraduate and graduate athletic training education programs. In 2011, Perrin was elected a fellow of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.

He was editor in chief of the Journal of Athletic Training from 1996 to 2004 and was the founding editor of the Journal of Sport Rehabilitation. He is author of Isokinetic Exercise and Assessment and Athletic Taping and Bracing, editor of the third edition of The Injured Athlete and coauthor of Research Methods in Athletic Training and Examination of Musculoskeletal Injuries.

In his free time, Perrin enjoys traveling, running and cycling, and vacationing at his lake cottage in Vermont.