Douglas Horton
Senior Lecturer in the Health & Exercise Science Department and Biology Program; Director for Health Science; Internship Coordinator for Health Science; Faculty Athletic Representative
McInnis 122
dhorton@eastern.edu
Professor Horton is a Certified Athletic Trainer with over 20 years of clinical experience. He has worked in a variety of settings including youth sports, high school and college programs and professional sports including work in the NFL, MLB, Olympics and Professional Soccer. He has been teaching in the Department of Kinesiology at Eastern since 2008. Doug has attempted to live out Eastern’s mission of Faith, Reason and Justice by helping others who are less fortunate. He has done mission work in Haiti and serves on a Prison Ministry softball team. In 2013 he was part of a group that created a non-profit obstacle course event called Goliathon. Based in Mullica Hill, NJ, Goliathon holds bi-annual events and donates proceeds to charity: water to bring clean water to third world countries. When he isn’t directing his own event, Doug loves to run and train for other events with his friends. Professor Horton resides in Swedesboro, New Jersey with his lovely wife Christine and their five daughters.
Education
- MS Kinesiology, Indiana University
Classes Taught
As former clinical coordinator and program director of the athletic training education program, Professor Horton has taught and overseen all the courses in the major. Currently he teaches Anatomy and Physiology and an introductory course for all freshman called INST 150 Introduction to Faith, Reason and Justice. As program director for the health science major, professor Horton oversees the internship program and teaches Health and Disease and Professional Development.
Why I Teach at Eastern
Professor Horton attended Eastern University where he received his BS in Health and Exercise Science with specificity in Athletic Training in 1999. He played four years of baseball at Eastern and then received an MS in Athletic Training from Indiana University in Bloomington. He then accepted the position as Head Athletic Trainer at Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Wayne, Pennsylvania where he was employed by NovaCare Rehabilitation. During that time he taught at Eastern as an adjunct and served as a preceptor mentoring Eastern athletic training students in the clinical setting. Doug returned to Eastern University as a full-time professor in the fall of 2008.
“Eastern helped mold and shape me as a college student and I have always considered it home. I met my wife at Eastern and my daughter is now attending. I believe in the people and the mission of Eastern and consider it a privilege to prepare a new generation of students to become competent professionals and be able to go out and impact the world for Christ.”