Diane Wiese-Bjornstal, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Sports Medicine Psychology Lab (SMPL), recently presented an invited talk at the 89th Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Kinesiology, held from September 12-14, 2019 in Bellevue, WA.

The presentation, “Back to the drawing board: Diagramming integrative conceptual models of psychological response to sport injuries,” addressed the question, how do we build an elite performer? through human performance optimization.