Katie Walsh Flanagan
Dr. Katie Walsh Flanagan is a native of Carmel, California and is a professor of sports safety at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She earned her BS at Oregon State, MS at Illinois State and EdD at the University of Southern California.
Katie is a practicing athletic trainer, researcher and educator and has held leadership roles thorough her career. As an athletic trainer, she was the AT for the men’s professional soccer team in Chicago, volunteered at the 1996 Olympic Games, and traveled abroad with both the men’s and wormen’s national soccer teams. She is the medical observer for East Carolina University football games.
Dr. Flanagan has written three textbooks related to athletic medicine, as well as authored numerous chapters and articles. Dr. Flanagan is considered an expert in policy; especially in environmental safety. In that area, she is internationally known for her lightning safety policies that govern recreation and sport. For the past five years, Katie has been the District 3, Mid-Athletic Athletic Trainer’s Association Director and was a member of the NATA Board of Directors.
She is married to Sean Flanagan and they reside in Greenville, NC.
