Liz Joy

Dr Joy is the Medical Director for the Community Health, Health Promotion and Wellness, Food and Nutrition programs at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City. In addition she practices Family Medicine and Sports Medicine at the Salt Lake Clinic LiVe Well Center. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the University of Utah College of Health Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology.

Dr. Joy is the Immediate Past President of both the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and the Female Athlete Triad Coalition. She held 2 terms of office on the Board of Trustees for the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. She is on the Editorial Board for The Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, and is Associate Editor for Current Sports Medicine Reports. She serves on the Exercise Is Medicine Steering Committee for the ACSM, and chairs the EIM Clinical Practice Committee. In addition, she chairs the Healthcare Workgroup for the National Physical Activity Plan. She developed and directed the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Utah from 1998 until 2011. Her research and advocacy interests lie in the areas of physical activity assessment and promotion, the Female Athlete Triad, air quality and health, and diabetes prevention.

She has authored many journal articles and textbook chapters on a wide variety of topics in sports medicine. Her research interests lie in the areas of physical activity assessment and promotion, practice-based research in primary care, the Female Athlete Triad, and sports injury prevention.