Kevin K McCully grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and attended Western Michigan University. He was a Biology major and a Math minor. He also was on the swimming team and had various swim coaching jobs over 4 years. He obtained his PhD in the Physiology Department at the University of Michigan. His research was on contractile properties and muscle injury in small animals. He completed a postdoc in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania, mainly to learn how to study skeletal muscle with magnetic resonance spectroscopy. He studied patients with peripheral arterial disease and neuromuscular diseases. He was an MDA post-doctoral scholar for two years. He found employment in Geriatric Medicine at Allegheny University of the Health Sciences and continued to study skeletal muscle using 31P MRS and NIRS in older adults. He then joined the Kinesiology Department at the University of Georgia where he teaches and conducts research using noninvasive technologies aimed towards patients with chronic illnesses and injuries. He is the President of Infrared Rx, Inc. This is a company dedicated to making analysis software to analyze NIRS data.