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October 17, 2023
OUR EXPERTS
EMILY KRAUS, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Stanford Children’s Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center
SCOTT L. DELP, PH.D.
Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
JOY WU, MD, PH.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Chief of Division of Endocrinology
Stanford University
KATIE LAMB
Climber
First woman to climb V16
KEITH BAAR, PH.D.
Professor of Physiology and Membrane Biology
University of California at Davis
ANN BROUSSARD
Marathon Race-Walker
DAMIEN CALLAHAN, PH.D.
Assistant Professor of Human Physiology
University of Oregon
HELEN M. BLAU, PH.D.
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Stanford University
CHRISTOPHER MINSON, PH.D.
Professor of Human Physiology
University of Oregon
MALIA PIVEC
Cross-Country Runner
University of Oregon
LOUISE BURKE, PH.D.
Professorial Fellow
Australian Catholic University
JEFFREY CHRISTLE, PH.D.
Clinical Exercise Physiologist
Stanford University
AMELIA BOONE
Obstacle Racing World Champion,
Ultra Runner, Attorney
KATE ACKERMAN, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Attending Physician at Boston Children’s Hospital
JAMIE ZEITZER, PH.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University
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Developed by our team at the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Stanford University – a non-profit research network. We go back and forth with our experts and cross-reference the scientific literature to understand and share the nuances of human performance research findings.
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