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Mitchell J. Rauh, PT, PhD, MPH, FACSM, is Professor and Director of the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program and the School of Physical Therapy at San Diego State University. He earned a B.S. in Health Sciences from the University of Nevada, B.S.P.T. in Physical Therapy from the University of Washington, M.P.H. in Health Promotion from San Diego State University, and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Washington. Rauh joined San Diego State University as a lecturer in 1990, progressed through assistant professor (2000), associate professor (2004), and was tenured as professor in the School of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences in 2014. He played a key role in developing and launching the Doctor of Physical Therapy program in 2012, serving as its initial director. Previously, he worked as a Research Senior Scientist at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego and as Co-Director of the Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Research.
Rauh directs the Running and Sports Injury Prevention Research Laboratory at San Diego State University. His research specializations include running injuries in adolescent and collegiate populations, bone stress-related injuries in adolescents and U.S. military recruits, the Female Athlete Triad in adolescents, sports specialization and injury relationships in adolescent athletes, recurrence and risk factors for ACL-related injuries in adolescents, and sports injury epidemiology in adolescent sport populations. With 212 publications and over 11,800 citations, his influential works encompass 'Standardising health history and injury surveillance of participants in endurance events: a modified Delphi consensus statement from the AMSSM Runner Health Consortium' (British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2024), 'Risk factors for running-related injury in high school and collegiate cross-country runners: A systematic review with meta-analysis' (Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, 2024), 'Epidemiology of injuries in United States high school track and field running events from 2008 to 2019' (2025), 'Youth Running Consensus Panel Statement: Minimising risk of injury and illness in youth runners' (British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2021), 'Disordered eating and development of menstrual irregularity, reduced bone mass change after a 3-year follow-up in female adolescent endurance runners' (International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 2021), and 'Epidemiology of stress fracture and overuse injury in women recruits' (Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2006). Rauh is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and received the Physical Therapy Achievement Award at the 2024 Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine Meeting. He serves on the university senate and the Interprofessional Education Task Force in the College of Health and Human Services.
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