Affiliation: Boston Children’s Hospital

Dr. DeJong Lempke received her Bachelor of Science degree in athletic training from the University of Pittsburgh in 2016. She completed her Master of Education in Kinesiology, focusing on athletic training from the University of Virginia in 2017, where she was a graduate assistant athletic trainer. She completed her thesis project on ultrasound-derived muscle function related to lower extremity injury. She continued her studies at the University of Virginia where she completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree in sports medicine in 2021, with her dissertation entitled “Wearable sensors for in-field running gait analysis & intervention”. Alex began as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention through Boston Children’s Hospital in 2021. Her current research interests include quantifying gait biomechanics using wearable technology for youth runners and exploring musculoskeletal and other physical factors related to an injury.