Blaine Hoshizaki
Telephone: (613) 562-5851
Fax:(613) 562-5497
E-Mail Address: thoshiza@uottawa.ca
Office (building, room number): MNT 354
Rank
- Associate Professor
- Vice-Dean (Faculty Affairs)
Biography
Prior to entering private business Blaine Hoshizaki was employed as a professor for fifteen years at the Universities of Victoria, Lakehead and McGill. He left the university environment to enter the sporting business in the early nineties and subsequently decided to return to academics the fall of 2004 in the School of Human Kinetics in Ottawa. His academic and business administrative experiences provide a foundation to support the challenges faced in the Directors position. Recently his research has primarily focused on understanding the mechanism of head injuries in sport. His research involves establishing better criterion variables to apply in developing more accurate injury models. He is also involved in research directed at identifying the injury risk and mechanism of injury to all parts of the body during sporting activities. He presently sits and the American, Canadian and European standards committees for sport equipment and chairsthe International Standard Committee for ice hockey equipment. He participated on the NHL Advisory Panel for the reduction of injuries in the NHL.
University Degrees
| Year | Degree | Specialty | Institution |
| 1978 | Ph.D. | Exercise Physiology | University of Illinois |
| 1975 | M.A. | Exercise Physiology | University of South Alabama |
| 1974 | BPE | Physical Education | University of Calgary |
Research Interests
- Injury mechanisms in sport
- Head injury in ice hockey
- Injury prevention in sport
- Strategies for decreasing injury in sport
