Email: Denise.Alosa@uvm.edu
Denise Alosa serves as part-time faculty in the Athletic
Training Education Program. She graduated in 1985 from the
University of Vermont where she completed a Bachelor of Science degree
in education and the Athletic Training Education
Program. Upon graduation, she accepted a position as the
Assistant Athletic Trainer at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me.
Several years later, she returned to Burlington, Vt. for an opportunity
to help open a new outpatient sports medicine clinic. During her
employment at the clinic, she began an outreach program to local high
schools and community based athletic healthcare programs. Alosa then
pursued at graduate degree in exercise science from the University of
New Hampshire. She returned to Burlington and began teaching at
her alma mater in the Athletic Training Education Program. In
1994 she became the curriculum director of that program. After four
years in that position, she returned to the secondary school setting as
the first full-time athletic trainer in that position in the state of
Vermont. She and her high school continue to lead the way for
secondary school athletic training in the state.
Denise has served terms as both Secretary and Treasurer for the
Vermont
Association of Athletic Trainers, and was an active member in pursuit
of state licensure. She is currently the District 1 Women in
Athletic Training Committee representative, and the chair of the
programming subcommittee for that organization. She serves as the
Medical Coordinator for the Vermont City Marathon, New England’s second
biggest marathon. She continues as a lecturer at the
University of Vermont, and is a co-investigator on a large
research project sponsored by the National Institute of Health studying
"Injury Risk Factors of the Lower Extremity" in collegiate and high
school athletes. She has co-authored numerous articles on that
subject. She has presented at numerous conferences on local, regional
and national levels.
Denise resides in So. Burlington, Vt. and enjoys photography, golf,
home
improvement projects and spending time with her family.
M.S., University of New Hampshire, Exercise
Science, 1993
B.S., University of Vermont, Physical Therapy, Concentration: Athletic Training, 1985