Scott C. Livingston, PhD, PT, ATC, SCS

Dr. Scott Livingston has served as the Education Director for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC) since January 2015. Previously, he was the Program Manager for the Warrior Adaptive Reconditioning Program of Wounded Warrior Battalion East – one of two Wounded Warrior Battalion components of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Wounded Warrior Regiment - from 2013 to 2015. Prior to working with the Federal Government, Dr. Livingston held several academic positions at the University of Kentucky (physical therapy, athletic training, and rehabilitation sciences faculty member, 2009-2013), the George Washington University (physical therapy and athletic training faculty, 2006-2009), and Gannon University (physical therapy, sport and exercise science faculty, 1996-2002). He served as a Lieutenant, Medical Service Corps (Physical Therapist) in the U.S. Navy from 1988-1996. He received his Ph.D. in Kinesiology (with a concentration in Sports Medicine) from the University of Virginia in 2007, his M.S. in Advanced Physical Therapy (post-professional) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994, and his B.S. in Physical Therapy (entry-level) from the Ohio University in 1988. Dr. Livingston is board certified as a an athletic trainer (ATC) by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Board of Certification since 2001. He has worked in a variety of clinical settings in both physical therapy and athletic training, ranging from the inpatient and outpatient hospital setting to Division I, II and III intercollegiate athletics. His area of research expertise is the evaluation and management of sport-related concussion/mild traumatic brain injury; he as numerous professional publications and conference presentations on the electrophysiologic assessment of concussion in an athletic population.