About Us
The Human Performance Lab (HPL) at Stanford University provides the Stanford Community with state-of-the-art approaches
for optimizing performance and screening for risk factors associated
with injury and illness, while furthering the understanding of
sports science through an integrated research philosophy involving
undergraduate and graduate students.
Goals
- Provide sport science services to Stanford Athletics to optimize
performance and reduce the risk of injury and illness.
- Educate and empower coaches, athletic trainers & student-athletes
to use sports science technologies in coaching and in designing
and implementing their own training programs.
- Participate in the campus-wide Health and Wellness initiative
by providing fitness and health assessments and sport science
services to the Stanford Community.
- Produce quality interdisciplinary research in areas of sports
medicine and sports science, with a focus on biomechanics and
exercise physiology.
Organization
The Human Performance Lab at Stanford University operates within
the Department of Orthopedics, in the Division of Sports Medicine.
Operations within the Human Performance Lab are grouped into three
main areas:
People
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Thor Besier, PhD
– Director of Research in the HPL. Thor's research interests are in mechanobiology and
understanding mechanisms of musculoskeletal injury.
Much of his work involves the development of biomechanical
models from medical imaging data to estimate stress distributions
in various tissues to understand injury mechanisms.
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Phil Cutti, BSc - Exercise Physiologist, Lab Manager. Phil has been in the endurance, coaching, and training world for 10+ years. His experience and education come through in bridging the gap between lab measurements and real-world performance. He has worked with and coached world class and champion cyclists, triathletes and runners.
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Daniel Garza, MD - Dr.
Garza is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Emergency
Medicine at Stanford as well as the Medical Director for
the San Francisco Forty-Niners of the National Football
League. He is the co-coordinator of the Health and
Human Performance Track within the Program in Human Biology
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Gordon Matheson,
MD, PhD – Dr Matheson is the Director of the Stanford
Sports Medicine Program and the Human Performance Lab, a Professor within the department
of Orthopedics at Stanford, and an Adjunct Professor for
the Program in Human Biology. He is the former Editor-in-Chief
of the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine and the Physician
and Sports Medicine. |
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Rebecca Shultz, B.Eng - Biomechanist, Assistant Lab Manager Rebecca is on target to complete her PhD in the Fall of 2009 in Kinesiology. Her focus has been on the foot kinematics but in the HPL she is the clinical biomechanist investigating all possible injuries and performance enhancements of the 900 Stanford Varsity athletes. |
