Kara Kern

  • Assistant Professor
    Applied Exercise Science

SPRT 270 Personal Training 

SPRT 310 Research Methods in Exercise Science 

SPRT 391 Physiology of Exercise & Sport Science Lab

SPRT 400 Fitness Assessment & Exercise Prescription

SPRT 416 Human Motor Control 

SPRT 425 Clinical Exercise Physiology

NHP 350 Advanced Sports Nutrition 

GSPRT 581 Neuromuscular Physiology 

Ph.D. Bioenergetics & Exercise Science
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, August 2025
Dissertation Title: The effects of prenatal exercise on infant gross motor skills and cord plasma insulin like growth factor I & II 

M.S. Sport and Exercise Science      
Gannon University, Erie, PA, May 2022
Thesis Title: The relationship between hamstring to quadriceps ratio in division II athletes.

B.S. Exercise Science
Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA, May 2021

Prenatal Exercise 

Stength and Conditioning 

Kern, K., Claiborne, A., Jevtovic, F., Wisseman, B., Steen, D., Strom, C., Lilley, A., Newton, E., Devente, J., Mouro, S., Collier, D., Dubose, K. D., McMillan, A. G., Tinius, R., Surkar, S., & May, L. E. (2025). Exercise FITT-V during pregnancy: 1-month infant neuromotor outcomes. Infant Behavior and Development, 80, 102069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2025.102069

Claiborne, A., Jevtovic, F., Biagioni, E. M., Wisseman, B., Roenker, B., Kern, K., Steen, D., Rossa, L., Ollmann, C., Mcdonald, S., Strom, C., Newton, E., Devente, J., Mouro, S., Collier, D., Kelley, G. A., Maples, J., O’Tierney-Ginn, P., Broskey, N. T., … May, L. E. (2025). The influence of prenatal exercise modes on resting maternal blood lactate. Physiological Reports, 13(13), e70444. https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.70444

Claiborne, A., Wisseman, B., Kern, K., Steen, D., Jevtovic, F., Mcdonald, S., Strom, C., Newton, E., Devente, J., Mouro, S., Whiteside, J., Muhammad, J., Collier, D., Kuehn, D., Kelley, G. A., & May, L. E. (2025). Exercise during pregnancy (frequency, intensity, type, time, volume): Birth outcomes in women at risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. AJOG Global Reports, 5(2), 100472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xagr.2025.100472

Sanchez-Parente, S., Kern, K., Claiborne, A., Wisseman, B., Steen, D., Roenker, B., Lilley, A., Strom, C., Newton, E., DeVente, J., Mouro, S., Collier, D., Kuehn, D., Dubose, K. D., Kelley, G., McMillan, A. G., Castro-Piñero, J., Aparicio, V. A., & May, L. E. (2025). Impact of Supervised-concurrent Exercise During Pregnancy on Infant Neuromotor Skills: A Post-hoc Analysis Stratified by Maternal BMI. Sports Medicine - Open, 11(1), 78. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-025-00886-x


Claiborne, A., Jevtovic, F., Biagioni, E. M., Wisseman, B., Steen, D., Kern, K., Roenker, B., Rossa, L., Ollmann, C., Devente, J., O’tierney-Ginn, P. F., Kaneko-Tarui, T., Kelley, G. A., Houmard, J. A., Broskey, N. T., & May, L. E. (2025). Prenatal exercise regulates influence of parental body mass index on birth outcomes. Early Human Development, 208, 106313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2025.106313

Claiborne, A., Wisseman, B., Kern, K., Steen, D., Jevtovic, F., Mcdonald, S., Strom, C., Newton, E., Isler, C., Devente, J., Mouro, S., Collier, D., Kuehn, D., Kelley, G. A., & May, L. E. (2024). Exercise during pregnancy Dose: Influence on preterm birth outcomes. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 300, 190–195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2024.07.017

Claiborne, A., Wisseman, B., Kern, K., Steen, D., Jevtovic, F., McDonald, S., Strom, C., Newton, E., Isler, C., Devente, J., Mouro, S., Collier, D., Kuehn, D., Kelley, G. A., & May, L. E. (2024). Exercise FITT-V during pregnancy: Association with birth outcomes. Birth Defects Research, 116(4), e2340. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdr2.2340

Jevtovic, F., Zheng, D., Lopez, C. A., Kern, K., Tanner, C. J., Jones, T. E., Pories, W. J., Dohm, G. L., Houmard, J. A., May, L. E., & Broskey, N. T. (2023). Greater reliance on glycolysis is associated with lower mitochondrial substrate oxidation and insulin sensitivity in infant myogenic MSCs. American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, 325(3), E207–E213. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00159.2023

Jevtovic, F., Collier, D. N., DeVente, J., Mouro, S., Claiborne, A., Wisseman, B., Steen, D., Kern, K., Broskey, N., & May, L. E. (2024). Maternal exercise increases infant resting energy expenditure: Preliminary results. International Journal of Obesity, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-024-01560-0

Jevtovic, F., Zheng, D., Houmard, J. A., Kern, K., Claiborne, A., Lopez, C. A., Broskey, N. T., Isler, C., DeVente, J., Newton, E., & May, L. E. (2023). Myogenically differentiated mesenchymal stem cell insulin sensitivity is associated with infant adiposity at 1 and 6 months of age. Obesity, 31(9), 2349–2358. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.23829

Secretary, ACSM-SIG Pregnancy and Postpartum 2023- Present

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