Professor and Director
The Citadel
Moultrie Street
Charleston, SC
United States of America
Dr. Dena Garner is a professor in the Department of Health, Exercise and Sport Science and is the Director of Undergraduate Research at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. She started working at The Citadel in 2004 while completing her post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurology at the Medical University of South Carolina, also located in Charleston. She has been working in the area of mouthpiece use and effect on human performance since 2005 with studies that have focused on reaction time, lactate, and cortisol and the effect of mouthpiece use on these parameters. In addition, her research has focused on mouthpiece use during steady state exercise and effects on oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange as well as the proposed mechanisms for positive effects on airway dynamics in a healthy population. Recently she has compared current mouthpiece designs to new designs of mouthpieces. In addition to research in the area of mouthpiece use and effect on human performance, Dr. Garner is involved in a research study which involves testing and evaluating physiologic neuro-assessment devices in healthy versus traumatic brain injury populations.