Kristen L. Kucera, PhD, MSPH, ATC, LAT

Kristen Kucera, PhD, MSPH, ATC, LAT, is an associate professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science, director of the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research, and core faculty in the Injury Prevention Research Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a co-investigator on the firefighter fall prevention research project. She has over 15 years of experience conducting surveillance and longitudinal cohort studies assessing risk and preventive factors for occupational injuries. She will provide epidemiologic and analytic expertise for the prospective, longitudinal cohort study to assess incidence, characteristics, and factors related to slip, trip and fall injuries in firefighters.