Alvaro N Gurovich is a Professor at The University of Texas at El Paso. He is a Physical Therapist from Chile. He received a Ph.D. in Health and Human Performance at the University of Florida. He obtained a B.S. at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He completed his postdoctoral education at the University of Florida College of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Physical Therapy at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana from 2012 to 2015. He is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), American Physiological Society, and International Society for the Advancement in Kinanthropometry (ISAK) and a fellow member of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). In 2023 he was awarded with the APTA Fellowship in Higher Education Leadership from the American Physical Therapy Association.