Presenting Author
Penn State
J. Carter Luck received his B.S. in Pre-Professional Biology from Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, NC, in 2015. Under the guidance of his father, Dr. Jerry C. Luck Jr, he completed an undergraduate research project titled “Simple cardiac screening of collegiate athletes using a smartphone electrocardiogram.” Shortly after, Carter received a Short-Term Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research (STRIDE Fellowship, R25 HL115473) from The American Physiological Society and began working at Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA. In 2019, he received his M.S. in Exercise Science from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. His Master’s Thesis was titled “Effects of peripheral revascularization on blood pressure and calf muscle oxygen saturation in peripheral artery disease.” Carter currently works at Penn State in Dr. Jian Cui’s laboratory as a research technologist and he plans to pursue a clinical or doctoral degree in the future.