Prof. Liguori serves as Chief Academic Officer as Provost and Senior Vice President at the University of West Florida. He moved to UWF from the University of Rhode Island, where he was the Founding Dean of the College of Health Sciences. Prior to Rhode Island, Liguori was Head of Health & Human Performance at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga, and before that, held faculty appointments at North Dakota State University, Youngstown State University and the University of Wyoming. Before working in academics, Liguori was the director of cardiac rehabilitation at the Heart Institute of the Desert, in Palm Desert, California.