Jonathon M Sullivan

Jonathon Sullivan MD, PhD, FACEP, SSC is an emergency physician, physiologist, and Starting Strength Coach. Sully is the owner-operator of Greysteel Strength and Conditioning, a coaching practice dedicated to improving the strength and fitness of adults from their forties to their nineties. He writes frequently on health, strength and fitness, and his articles can be found at startingstrength.com and greysteel.org. He is the host of the Greysteel Channel on YouTube (www.youtube.com/greysteel), which is devoted to information on healthy aging. He is a founding member of the Starting Strength Coaches Association, and has served on several of its committees, including the Science and Maintenance of Certification Committees. He has been known to publish the occasional science fiction story. Sully never finished college, but he DID graduate from the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 1992, and earned his PhD in physiology from Wayne State University in 1998. He is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University, and Attending Physician at Detroit Receiving Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in SE Michigan. He served as Associate Director of the WSU Emergency Medicine Cerebral Resuscitation Laboratory, where his research focused on brain injury and repair after stroke, trauma, and cardiac arrest. He has published dozens of articles, abstracts, and book chapters on these topics. Sully served in the US Marine Corps during his feverish youth, and Saw The World. He holds the rank of 3d Dan in Tang Soo Do, and he has no musical or artistic talent whatsoever.