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Lieutenant Colonel Joel R. Dixon is the Associate Athletic Director of Sports Medicine at the United States Air Force Academy. Lt Col Dixon is directly responsible for leading three departments consisting of Athletic Training, Strength and Conditioning, and the Human Performance Laboratory. He leads a mission to provide world-class sports medicine care, physiological testing and training to the approximately 1000 Division One intercollegiate athletes. He has been a licensed physical therapist since 1998, with board certification in orthopedics, as well as a being a fellowship graduate of the Kaiser Permanente Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy and Musculoskeletal Primary Care Fellowship. In addition, Lt Col Dixon has been a Certified Athletic Trainer since 1996.
Lt Col Dixon also serves as the Assistant Program Director of the United States Air Force Tactical Sports and Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy Fellowship. He helps lead the mission to train Air Force Physical Therapists in the most advanced and up-to-date sports medicine techniques, in order to prepare them to become Embedded Physical Therapists in Battle Field Airmen Units. Lt Col Dixon was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and received a direct commission into the Air Force Biomedical Sciences Corps as a First Lieutenant in 1998. He has held such positions as Staff Physical Therapist and Senior Physical Therapist in inpatient and outpatient settings, Director of Clinical Research, Element Chief, Clinical Fellowship Director, Flight Commander, Military Treatment Facility Biomedical Sciences Corps Executive and Medical Operations Squadron Commander.
