James Smoliga
Dr. James Smoliga, DVM, PhD, CSCS, FACSM earned a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Cornell University in 2003 and a PhD in Sports Medicine and Nutrition from the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. Dr. Smoliga is the Associate Director of the High Point University Human Biomechanics and Physiology Laboratory.
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Concluding that Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.