Athletic Training
Mark Merrick, Ph.D., AT, ATC, FNATA
Dean, College of Health and Human Services
Professor, Athletic Training
School of Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences
Mail Stop 119
Phone: 419.530.5453
Fax: 419.530.5540
mark.merrick@utoledo.edu
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Dr. Merrick joined to the University of Toledo as the Dean of the College of Health
and Human Services in the summer of 2020. He came to Toledo from The Ohio State University
where he served for 20 years as the Founding Director of the Division of Athletic
Training in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences within the College of
Medicine. At Ohio State, Dr. Merrick was instrumental in creating the university’s
Bachelor of Science in Athletic Training program and growing the program to national
prominence. Prior to his time at Ohio State, he has also been on the faculty at Xavier
University and Indiana State University. His areas of scholarship are the pathophysiology
of musculoskeletal injuries and the physiology of the interventions used to treat
them. He also has a scholarly focus in health professions education and its role
in meeting society’s health needs. Nationally, Dr. Merrick is a member of the National
Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Global Forum on Innovation in Health
Professional Education. In this role, he joins thought leaders in health professions
education from around the world in setting the course for the future of health professions
education to meet the world’s health and healthcare needs. Additionally, he brings
extensive experience in programmatic accreditation, having served as the President
of the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE) where he
helped lead his profession’s move to the master’s degree for professional entry and
creation of new accreditation standards aligned with Institute of Medicine and Interprofessional
Education Collaborative core competencies. His work in these areas resulting is his
winning of the CAATE’s Koehneke Award for lifetime contributions. Dr. Merrick also
has an extensive history in research ethics. At Ohio State, he was heavily involved
in the university’s Office of Responsible Research Practices, where his commitment
to ethical research conduct included 15 years as an IRB member, IRB Vice-Chair, and
member of the IRB Policy Committee that oversees the university’s 3 on-campus IRBs
and setting human subjects research policies. He was the lead reviewer on many of
the university’s most complex and difficult research non-compliance cases for over
a decade and contributed heavily to the office’s AAHRPP accreditation efforts. He
co-authored the university’s biobanking / repository policy.