Biography - Lori L Dewald

Dr. Lori Lynn Dewald, EdD, ATC, CHES, F-AAHE has two undergraduate degrees. One from South Dakota State University in Athletic Training and the second from Mankato State University in Teacher Education. Lori’s masters and doctorate are in Health Education from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

Lori was the first person in the country to achieve both the credentials of Certified Athletic Trainer and Certified Health Education Specialist in combination with a doctorate, an accomplishment that has rarely been matched by others.

She currently serves on national committees for the American Association for Health Education, the American College Health Association, and the National Athletic Trainers’ Association. She is on the review board for 13 different professional journals. Lori is also on the Healthy Campus 2010-2020 National Commission, and is the first person ever appointed as liaison between the American College Health Association and the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, and has had 3 continuous reappointments. She is a longtime NCAA CHOICES grant reviewer.

Dr. Dewald has given 87 national conference presentations, and has had 39 refereed publications. She has also mentored 19 award-winning undergraduate student researchers. Lori was the 1996 Mabel Lee Award Recipient from AAHPERD, and was inducted into the exclusive Delta Kappa Gamma Society for Key Women Educators in May 2008. On April 3, 2009, she was one of five people (and the only woman) inducted as a fellow in the American Association for Health Education.

Beyond this academic and professional summary, her two Shetland sheepdogs have had many levels of AKC obedience training and are therapy dogs that visit nursing homes; she serves on the Delmar, MD city utility commission; is an avid tennis player; and she is in the final stages of becoming a Deaconess in the Lutheran Church, where she will be a volunteer in hospital chaplaincy and in hospice care.