Ina Garthe is head of sports nutrition at Olympiatoppen and holds a PhD from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (Department of Sports Medicine), an IOC diploma in sports nutrition and a two-year clinical postgraduate training in eating disorders.
Speak up for yourself and your fellow students by taking on a student leadership role within the College of Health Solutions. Learn about the various student leadership options, including joining the college council, becoming a peer mentor, peer academic leader or a liaison within different groups or clubs. It is a great way to build up your grad school application or resume.
Amelia Carr, PhD, is a Deakin University Academic and Sport Science Advisor for Australian Athletics. Her current research focus is the identification and evaluation of training and nutritional interventions, particularly in extreme environments, and for female athletes. She is a Fellow of The European College of Sport Science and was appointed to the American College of Sports Medicine Olympic and Paralympic Sport Science and Sports Medicine Committee in 2024.
Ina Garthe, PhD, is Head of Sports Nutrition at Olympiatoppen and holds a PhD from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences (Department of Sports Medicine), an IOC Diploma in Sports Nutrition, and a two-year clinical postgraduate training in eating disorders. She has worked with athletes, sports nutrition, and research at Olympiatoppen since 2000, and has authored books and scientific publications in nutrition, physiology, and training. She lectures and teaches nationally and internationally.
Alysha Deslippe, PhD, is post-doctoral researcher at Concordia University in the Health for EveryBODY Lab where she explores intersections between gender, body ideals and sport involvement on dietary habits. Through her research, Alysha aims to develop impactful behavioural interventions that specifically help youth navigating their food choices towards more evidence-based habits. As a coach and former athlete, Alysha understands first hand how difficult following evidence-based dietary advice for sport can be.
Join us to learn how CREST services can support your research and programs at every stage, from planning to reporting. Discover how to leverage data, track outcomes, and apply evidence-based insights to strengthen proposals, secure funding, and demonstrate meaningful impact. Our goal is to help teams make informed, data-driven decisions, improve program quality, and enhance sustainability and replication.
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Brendon McDermott, PhD, is a Professor and Director of the Heat & Hydration Optimization (H2O) Lab at the University of Arkansas. He has a passion for ethical exercise science and is the lead author on the current National Athletic Trainers' Association position statement: rehydration for the physically active. Dr. McDermott has 20+ years in research related to thermoregulation, heat illness, and hydration and is on the Medical & Scientific Advisory Board for the Korey Stringer Institute.
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Yuri Hosokawa, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Japan. Her research interests include prevention and education of sudden death in sport, establishing best practices in road race medicine, developing regional-specific heat guidelines for exertional heat illness prevention, and developing heat acclimatization guidelines for tactical athletes. She is also partaking in research projects in biometeorology to promote interdisciplinary research across physiologists, climatologists, and public health researchers.
Lynn Cialdella Kam, PhD, is a Research Dietitian for the Naval Health Research Center and the director of the Food Utilization and Energy Laboratory (FUEL) in the Warfighter Performance Department at the Naval Health Research Center. Dr. Kam is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) and certified specialist in sports dietetics (CSSD) with a Masters in Exercise Physiology and PhD in Nutrition with minors in Exercise Physiology and Statistics.