Symposium 2026 | Sport Focus on Basketball
Sport Focus on Basketball
A close look at the science of basketball performance, from how circadian disruption affects WNBA athletes to analyzing in-game biomechanics and translating research into on-court gains.
CO-MODERATOR
Keith D’Amelio, PhD
Keith D’Amelio is a performance strategist, innovation advisor, and organizational leader specializing in elite sport, performance technology, and high performance systems. He has held leadership roles across the NBA, WNBA, NCAA, and Nike, serving as Director of Athlete Performance at Nike for 13 years. He has advised athletes, teams, leagues, companies, and investors across the NBA, NFL, WNBA, EPL, AFL, the NBA Players Association, and startup ecosystem. His work helps organizations turn elite performance principles into stronger systems, better products, and measurable advantage.
CO-MODERATOR
Cheri D. Mah, MD, MS,
Cheri Mah is a sleep physician and adjunct lecturer at the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center. She is regarded as an international expert on sleep and performance in elite athletes. She consults with professional teams (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB), including this year’s Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks, Olympians, executives, and high performers on optimal sleep, travel, and performance strategies.
SPEAKER
Elise Facer-Childs, PhD
Elise Facer-Childs is the Deputy Director of the Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Program and an ARC Industry Fellow in the Faculty for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, Australia. She is internationally recognized as a leader in sleep and chronobiology and acts as a consultant for numerous elite sports organisations across the AFL, NRL, WNBL and World Tour Cycling. Her research seeks to better understand how sleep, chronobiology and exercise impact the brain, physical and mental health, recovery and subsequent performance.
SPEAKER
Ben McInroe, PhD
Ben McInroe is a postdoctoral fellow with the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab and Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Stanford. He is using machine learning and physics-based simulation to develop personalized biomechanical models for professional basketball. This work will be used to inform player health and athletic performance, and to provide new insights into the sensorimotor control of highly dynamic movement.
SPEAKER
Dimitrije Cabarkapa, PhD, CPSS, CSCS*D, CPT*D, USAW
Dimitrije Cabarkapa is the Associate Director of the Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory at the University of Kansas, part of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance. Guided by his background as a competitive basketball player, his work sits at the intersection of cutting-edge sport science research and applied performance practice, with a strong emphasis on translating innovation into efficient real-world solutions for athlete performance enhancement.
SPEAKER
Gregory D. Myer, PhD, FACSM, CSCS,*D
Gregory Myer is an internationally recognized scientist in injury prevention, human performance neuroscience, and athletic biomechanics and is a member of the Leadership Council of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance. He directs the Emory Sports Performance And Research Center (SPARC) at the Atlanta Falcons headquarters, leading translational research in injury prevention, rehabilitation, and clinical innovation. With 500+ peer-reviewed articles and 79,000+ citations, his NIH- and DoD-funded work spans ACL prevention, concussion, AI, VR, and neuro-biomechanics. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.
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