Orthopaedic Surgery Associate Professor Medical Director, Loyola University Chicago Sports Medicine
Loyola MedicineConcussion, concussion and football, Rehabilitation, Sports Injury, Sports Medicine, Tendinitis
Nathaniel Jones, MD, a primary care sports medicine specialist at Loyola Medicine, and the Team Physician for Division 1 Loyola University Chicago, University of St. Francis Joliet, US Soccer. Dr. Jones has more than 14 years of experience. Dr. Nate Jones received his medical degree from the University of Iowa. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and further developed his clinical abilities in the field of Primary Care Sports Medicine by completing a fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital. Certified in sports medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine, he looks after multiple communities in the state of Illinois. Patients visit him to treat a wide variety of sports, musculoskeletal and medical conditions such as sports injuries, arthritis, spondylolysis, tendonitis, osteoarthritis, and sciatica. He is experienced with musculoskeletal ultrasound, joint injections and minor fracture care. He is the Medical Director of the Loyola Concussion Clinic.
Dr. Jones speaks fluent English, Spanish, and Portuguese. This helps him treat his clients from several cultural backgrounds who are more comfortable to converse with him. His extensive experience in his field of practice has helped him author several publications with other eminent practitioners. He believes in providing excellent patient care and strives towards quickly bringing patients back to their routine way of life.
Professor Emerita, University of Toledo
Association of Rehabilitation NursesFamily Health, Rehabilitation
Linda Pierce, PhD MSN RN CRRN FAAN is Professor Emerita at the University of Toledo. Dr. Pierce is a graduate of the University of Akron (Ohio) and Wayne State University (Michigan). She is board certified in rehabilitation nursing (CRRN), a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), and is a leader in the nursing field. Linda was President of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses in 2010, and Associate Editor of the Rehabilitation Nursing journal from 2014-2020. Her interests are in all aspects of nursing related to rehabilitation, as well as geriatrics, leadership and management. Dr. Pierce鈥檚 specific interest centers on and advances the science of healthy well-being and the art of compassionate caring. She concentrates on interventions/treatments for people dealing with human responses to disability, assisting them to maintain, attain or regain their ability. Linda focuses on family research related to caregivers for people with stroke and dementia, as well as other areas of concern related to rehabilitation nursing, e.g., falls, long-term care issues. Based on her expertise in these areas, Dr. Pierce has numerous publications; she serves as a consultant about supportive web-based education and research (designs, data collection and analyses) in the United States and Canada.
Assistant Professor
College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignCommunity Health, Nutrition, Rehabilitation
Dr. Aguiñaga is committed to advancing the scientific knowledge that addresses health disparities in cognition and dementia-related diseases through community-based physical activity research. She received an Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity grant for a study of sitting time, activity, and dementia in underserved populations in central Illinois and Chicago. She also has investigated relationships among cognitive function, lifestyle, and exercise after cancer treatment. Through her research, she hopes to increase diversity in dementia-related research and reverse growing disparities in physical activity and dementia-related diseases, with the ultimate goal of creating culturally appropriate physical activity interventions for racially and ethnically diverse older adults with cognitive impairment and dementia-related diseases.
Associate Vice Chancellor for academic affairs - student success and a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
University of Arkansas at Little RockCriminal Justice, Rehabilitation
Dr. David Montague serves as the associate vice chancellor for academic affairs - student success and a professor of criminal justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He formerly served as the director of online learning.
Dr. Montague completed federal investigations for 14 years in law enforcement and intelligence capacities working for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a federal drug diversion investigator. At the age of 23, he lectured on Asset Forfeiture at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and at 29, he was appointed as head of investigations for the United States JFK Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) as the senior investigator. He later went on to serve as a consultant on national security matters with US Investigations Services, Inc. and was a member of the founding faculty of the PhD Program in Organizational Leadership at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
In 2004, he joined UA Little Rock’s Department of Criminal Justice as an Assistant Professor teaching in both undergraduate and graduate programs. He has used his time at UA Little Rock to facilitate a mix of his teaching, research, and service in such a manner as to use his access to expose students via projects, collaborate both on and off campus, and generate grant and contract funding as often as possible. He founded the UA Little Rock Senior Justice Center to promote service and research on crime against older people. He is the recipient of the 2003 Outstanding Faculty Staff Award for Outstanding Teaching and Intellectual Development of Undergraduate Students by the University of Maryland at College Park Nyumburu Cultural Center, the 2009 UA Little Rock College of Professional Studies Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, and the 2014 UA Little Rock College of Professional Studies Faculty Excellence Award in Service. He is also the recipient of the 2016 Felix Fabian Founder’s Award from the Southwest Association of Criminal Justice, awarded for outstanding contribution to SWACJ and the criminal justice profession.
Dr. Montague formerly served as the graduate coordinator for the UA Little Rock Master of Science Program in criminal justice and is a graduate of the LeadAR Program, the Arkansas State leadership program involving a two-year commitment of service-learning and travel within-state and the People’s Republic of China. He was a founding member of the UA Little Rock’s Chancellor’s Committee on Race and Ethnicity, and his most recent funded research project was to evaluate programming for the Arkansas Department of Community Correction, dealing with services for clients during and after release from prison. In 2017, he was appointed to a part-time role as coordinator of UA Little Rock’s university-level mentoring program for new faculty.
Dr. Montague is active in the community volunteering as a deputy sheriff in Arkansas, participating in a rehabilitation program at three prisons, and has served on several discipline-related boards – one of them being the board of directors for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, one of the largest national associations for criminal justice educators.
He has presented his research internationally at conferences in Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Holland, Trinidad, and Canada. In addition to serving as a keynote speaker nationally, he has testified before two state legislatures on prospective policies. He has written numerous publications and is the coauthor of the book Travesty of Justice: The politics of crack cocaine and the dilemma of the Congressional Black Caucus, now in its Second Edition. He is also finishing up a new book dealing with his tenure as part of the Congressional reinvestigation of JFK assassination records during the 1990s.
Dr. Montague resides in Little Rock, Arkansas with his wife and daughter.
Professor and Chair, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
Tufts Universityinjury recovery, musculoskeletal care, Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation, Sports Injury
Eric Hegedus is Professor and Department Chair of Rehabilitation Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine. He has had a notable 32-year career as a leader and innovator in physical therapist education, research, and clinical practice. He was also the founding Program Director of Tufts DPT- Phoenix, AZ. as well as the Founding Chair of the Doctor of Physical Therapy Department at High Point University. He was a Vice-Chief in Duke's Doctor of Physical Therapy Division where he directed and taught Musculoskeletal Practice Management courses garnering him the American Physical Therapy Association's Orthopedic Section James a Gould Teaching Award, a national award given to the single most deserving teaching professor annually. He also was a four-time winner of the "Duke DPT Excellence in Teaching" award and a three-time nominee for Duke Medical Center's prestigious Master Clinician Educator Award.
As a scholar, he is driven to answer relevant clinical questions in the orthopedic and sports diagnosis and rehabilitation realm and translate the findings to clinical practice. This singular passion has driven his scholarly agenda resulting in publication of over 90 peer-reviewed articles, 20 abstracts, and 5 book chapters. He contributed to the writing of the new clinical practice guidelines for shoulder instability for the profession of physical therapy and is currently involved with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Math (NASEM) reviewing relevant literature of adverse events related to vaccine.
Dr. Hegedus has a long history of developing successful clinical practices and remains a practicing physical therapist.