Episode 330 | Dr. James Onate - Do Mojo, Ripple Baseball, Raising a Ballplayer Podcast

Dr. James A. Oñate is a Professor at The Ohio State University in the College of Medicine’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He is the Director of the Division of Athletic Training education program, as well as being a member of the Human Performance Collaborative and Jameson Crane Sports Medicine Institute at Ohio State. His research has had a significant impact nationally and internationally in the field of human movement assessment, specifically in addressing factors that influence human performance in physically active populations. As a member of a talented research team at Ohio State, he has helped to lead efforts to prevent primary and secondary injuries in physically active individuals. His focus on assessing the risk of lower extremity injuries has expanded over the years to include several significant interest in multifacted areas of human performance including concussions, overhead athletes, military sports medicine and law enforcement holistic health. His work has received funding from several different national organizations such as the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Special Operations Command which has funded projects related to the care of youth football athletes, high-school athletes, military special operations soldiers and law enforcement officers. He has also helped to mentor several graduate and undergraduate students who have led a significant movement in functional brain imaging assessments for individuals with musculoskeletal injuries, mental health assessment in youth athletes, military human performance and law enforcement healthcare. His hope is to continue to grow as a researcher and to provide clinical research-based information to individuals and groups to optimize and sustain their performance. His future career pathway is to continue to research, teach and serve while learning how to provide mentoring and coaching for student, staff and faculty success.