Jane Clark博士是马里兰大学人体运动系的系主任兼教授。同时，她参与了该校神经科学和认知科学项目的研究。她在纽约州立大学Brockport分校获得健康与中小学身体教育学士学位；华盛顿大学获得中小学身体教育硕士学位；威斯康星-麦迪逊大学获得动作发展博士学位。她已经与他人合著过7本动作发展方面的教科书，撰写过22个章节，在期刊上发表过50余篇论文。

Clark博士是美国健康、身体教育、休闲与舞蹈联盟(AAHERD)的积极成员。她曾担任过该会研究会的秘书长和主席，以及国家运动与身体教育学会动作发展学会的主席。她于1998年被美国健康、身体教育、休闲与舞蹈协会东部区授予高校的杰出教师；于1995年被授予学术学演讲者称号。1995年，她被研究会授予Mc Cloy演讲者称号，今年（2007年）她被美国健康、身体教育、休闲与舞蹈联盟评为联盟学者。

Clark博士是北美运动与身体活动心理学协会的前主席，也曾经是其他致力于动作发展（研究的）专业组织中的积极成员，这些组织包括国际协调发展障碍研究协会（the International Society for Research in Developmental Coordination Disorder，ISR-DCD)和国际婴儿研究协会（the International Society for Infant Studies）。在2009年，Clark博士将与Jill Whitall博士一起在马里兰州的巴尔的摩，为国际协调发展障碍研究协会主持每两年一次的大会。

1993年，Clark博士被美国人体运动学和身体教育科学院授予院士称号，这是一个仅由150名在人体运动学领域非常活跃的学者组成的组织。她现在是这个协会的前主席，并且是今年“21世纪人体运动学”大会的组织者。

Clark博士在她大部分的职业生涯中，都在试图理解动作控制与协调的发展。最初，她关注跳跃与行走的发展，随后，她开始关注婴儿和少年儿童的感觉与行动之间的关系发展的问题。同时，她还对动作协调障碍儿童进行研究。她得到国家科学基金和国家健康学会的资助。她现在的科研基金还包括儿童协调障碍发展研究的一百五十万美金的研究项目。

除动作发展领域的研究外，Clark博士还领导多项涵盖营养和身体活动的项目，其中包括Giant Foods’ Healthy Start项目。2001年，她担任NASEP名为“积极的起点”的婴幼儿和学前儿童身体活动指导原则工作组的负责人一职。

Jane Clarkis Professor and Chair of the Department of Kinesiology and Professor in the Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Clark earned her bachelors degree in health and physical education from State University of New York-Brockport, her masters in physical education from University of Washington, and her Ph.D. in motor development from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has co-edited 7 texts in motor development, authored 22 book chapters and over 50 refereed journal publications.    

Dr. Clark is an active member of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (AAHERD). She has served as the Secretary and the President of the Research Consortium of AAHPERD and Chair of the MotorDevelopmentAcademy of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE). She has been honored by the Eastern District of AAHPERD as their Outstanding Teacher in the College Division (1988) and as their Scholar Lecturer (1995). In 1995, she was the Research Consortium’s Mc Cloy Lecturer and this year (2007), she is the Alliance Scholar of AAHPERD. 

A past president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Dr. Clark has been an active member of a number of other professional organizations dedicated to the study of motor development including the International Society for Research in Developmental Coordination Disorder (ISR-DCD) and the International Society for Infant Studies.   In 2009, she and Dr. Jill Whitall will host the biannual ISR-DCD conference in Baltimore, Maryland.

In 1993, Dr. Clark was elected Fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, a society limited to 150 active scholars in the field of kinesiology. She is currently Past-President of the Academy and the organizer of this year’s conference on “Kinesiology in the 21^st Century.

Dr. Clark has spent most of her career trying to understand the development of movement control and coordination. Focusing originally on the development of jumping and walking, she re-focused her work the developing relationship between perception and action in infants and young children. She also studies children with motor coordination problems. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Her current funding includes a $1.5 million grant to study children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. 

In addition to her research on motor development, Dr. Clark has provided leadership on various projects that have combined nutrition and physical activity including Giant Foods’ Healthy Start program. In 2001, she chaired the NASPE Task Force on Guidelines for Infant & Preschool Physical Activity entitled Active Start.