Director of Research
Children's Health Andrews Institute
Dr. John Abt is the Director of Research at the Children’s Health Andrews Institute. His research is focused on studying ACL injuries in youth athletes. Dr. Abt previously served as the Director the Sports Medicine Research Institute at the University of Kentucky and the Associate Director of the Neuromuscular Research Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. He directed five Department of Defense funded projects and satellite laboratories over the last 15 years that were executed at military installations across the US. Dr. Abt received his PhD in Rehabilitation Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004 and is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.