Catherine Faust is an experienced educator and administrator with over 25 years of experience at Life University. She has served as Dean and Assoc. Dean of the College of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies (CGUS). Department Chair/Assistant Dean of the Sport Health Science program, in which she launched the UG exercise science and health coaching programs and the Master of Athletic Training degree program. She has experience in accreditation and curriculum design. She has served on many key University committees and the Faculty Senate Executive Committee. As a faculty member, she primarily taught at the graduate level in the areas of physiological testing and cardiovascular physiology. She has also consulted on projects such as Helping America’s Youth Conferences and several other presidential initiatives. She has written curricula frameworks for the Georgia State Department of Education in health occupations, which have been adopted by the State Board of Education and implemented at the secondary level. She has given several invited presentations and conducted several research projects. She has worked with the HOSA organization both at the state and national levels. She has a strong record of community volunteer work.

Before coming to LU, she spent ten years in the clinical setting specializing in cardiac rehabilitation and cardiology as both clinician and administrator. She also served as Vice President of Clinical Operations for Heart Alert, a telemedicine company specializing in cardiac monitoring. She developed patient monitoring protocols and was involved in research & development, which led to a successful FDA submission for an over-the-counter sale of a personal cardiac monitoring device.

She earned both her BS and MS from Eastern Kentucky University. She was a scholar-athlete on multiple Ohio Valley Conference Championship cross country and track and field teams. She was an All-American distance runner and has been inducted into numerous Hall of Fames (high school and college). She completed her Ph.D. in exercise physiology at Texas Woman’s University, where she specialized in exercise and nutritional research related to osteoporosis and sport performance. She served as both a research and teaching assistant during graduate school.