Professor Joni L. Roh
Dr. Joni Roh is a Professor in the Department of Health Science and Sport Studies at California University of Pennsylvania. She has been a member of the department since 1991 and teaches and advises in undergraduate and graduate accredited Athletic Training programs and the graduate Exercise Science and Health Promotions online programs.
Prior to coming to California, Dr. Roh was an Assistant Athletic Trainer at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Roh's undergraduate degree was earned at West Virginia University in Physical Education with a minor in Athletic Training. She obtained her Master's of Arts in Teaching degree in Physical Education, Exercise, and Sports Science, with an emphasis in Sports Medicine, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her doctorate in Sport Psychology with a minor in counseling at West Virginia University in 2001.
Dr. Roh's interests include psychology and sport injury and its affects on rehabilitation. Specifically, her dissertation evaluated "Patient Satisfaction Among Injured High School and College Athletes and Its Influence Among Rehabilitation Adherence and Rehabilitation Compliance." Dr. Roh has presented research relative to sport injury at nationally recognized symposiums (APA, AAASP, NATA) and has published articles in national peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Roh currently is a guest reviewer for The Journal of Sport Rehabilitation and the Journal of Athletic Training.
Dr. Roh has been involved in the profession of Athletic Training since 1986. She is a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA), the Eastern Athletic Trainers' Association (EATA), the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers' Society (PATS), the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP) and the American Psychological Association (APA). In 1995, she assisted the President of the EATA with the selection of speakers and topics for the annual meeting. In 2004, Dr. Roh was appointed to the NATA Post Professional Educator’s Committee.
Dr. Roh is actively involved in the university, serving on the following committees: Tony McGrew Scholarship Committee, University Forum-Athletic Council, Faculty Professional Development Technology Subcommittee, the University Drug and Alcohol Committee and other professional committees such as Parent Resources Committee for the Morgantown Early Learning Facility and serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Chancery Hall Historic District. Additionally, in 2005 Dr. Roh received acceptance of application and became the Advisor of the Nu Omicron Chapter of the Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society which is a certified member of the Association of College of Honor Societies.
Dr. Roh resides in Morgantown, West Virginia with her husband Michael, her son, Adam, and daughter, Lucy. She enjoys traveling (have traveled to UK, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Kenya and Uganda), backpacking, camping, and sewing/tatting.