Corporate Staff

 

James Timothy Betz

President

Tim Betz is the President of HIT Centers Inc., an Ohio corporation organized
in February 2003. Mr. Betz is also founder of Workers Choice Health Services,
an eight year old Ohio corporation that specializes in on-site physical and occupational therapy services. Workers Choice Health Services provides the current infrastructure and business development platform for HIT Centers Inc.

Mr. Betz has over 16 years of experience in the implementation and administration of physical medicine and rehabilitation services with a total of 27 years of clinical experience in musculoskeletal medicine. The combination of his clinical expertise
and healthcare business acumen, have provided Mr. Betz with a comprehensive, unique, and visionary approach to business development in the healthcare field.
After completing his master’s degree, he formed the department of Occupational Health, Physical Medicine, and Rehabilitation at Holzer Clinic.

During his 10 year administration the department expanded to a four facility, multi-million dollar operation in two states. Both he and his staff were extensively involved with service delivery to employers on a primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention basis. Beyond his two degrees in nursing, he has completed advanced practice as a Family Nurse Practitioner at The Ohio State University. Studies beyond his master’s degree in Exercise Physiology include education in Health Services Administration at Ohio University.



 

Dr. Terry Shepherd

Founder and Executive Vice President

Dr Terry Shepherd received his Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology, with emphasis
in metabolism and biochemistry, from the University of Utah in 1987. He
has been published in Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise on
Cardiac Dimensional Changes (Echocardiography) in the most Highly Trained Prepubescent Runners in the U.S. (See MSSE, 1987) and other scientific
journals such as The Physician and Sports Medicine. Dr. Shepherd has
been a professor of exercise physiology at Marshall University for the past
17 years. He is also an adjunct professor at the Marshall University School
of Medicine
.

20 years of research and testing lead Dr. Shepherd to create the HIT Center concept which he launched at his first facility in Huntington, WV three years ago.
He has spent the last three years developing and refining the concept. The HIT Center has proven to be a successful system of world class assessment and training for the general public and has received national recognition from Men’s Journal (October issue, 2002) and Self Magazine. The success of the concept
has prompted interest in making HIT Centers available to all cities in the US.



 

Joe Duffield, MS

Vice President

Joe Duffield, Vice President of HIT Centers Inc., is a master level Exercise Physiologist with 20 years experience in the field. He received his degree from
Marshall University. He has had extensive involvement in health programming,
injury prevention, and return to work services and has managed large occupational rehab programs. Mr. Duffield was a student of Dr. Shepherd’s at Marshall University.
 

 

 

 
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