Prior to coming to UNC-Charlotte, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Toledo and served as the Director of the CAATE-accredited Post-Professional Graduate Athletic Training program. Currently, Dr. Donovan teaches within the undergraduate Athletic Training program and will be advising students within the graduate Applied Physiology and Neuromechanics program. Dr. Donovan’s research interests includes the utilization of an impairment-based rehabilitation model for the treatment of chronic ankle instability, in which he is further refining the model by studying novel assessment and rehabilitation techniques.