The American Medical Athletic Association presents the

37th ANNUAL SPORTS MEDICINE SYMPOSIUM AT BOSTON

April 19-20, 2008
Boston, MA


FACULTY LIST


Aaron L. Baggish, MD
Cardiovascular Clinical and Research Fellow, Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

Kathryn Brinsfield, MD, MPH, FACEP
Medical Director for Homeland Security, Boston EMS, Boston MMRS, and the deValle Emergency Preparedness Training Institute; Supervisory Medical Officer, International Medical and Surgical Response Tram and the Massachusetts—1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team; Associate Professor, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

Douglas J. Casa, PhD, ATC, FACSM
Director, Athletic Training Education; Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology; Research Associate, Human Performance Laboratory; Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

George T. Chiampas, MD
Medical Director, Chicago Marathon; Adjunct Professor, Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University; Co-Director, Sports Medicine Fellowship, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL; Consulting Physician, United States Soccer National Team and high school teams.

Joseph N. Chorley, MD, FACSM
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Section of Sports Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; Associate Medical Director, Chevron Houston Marathon.

John Cianca, MD, FAAPMR, FACSM, FAAAMA
Medical Director, Memorial Hermann / TIRR Greenway Plaza, Houston, TX; Medical Director, Chevron Houston Marathon; President, American Road Race Medical Society.

Nancy Clark, MS, RD, CSSD
Board Certified Sports Dietitian in private practice at Healthworks Fitness Center, Chestnut Hill, MA; Author, Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook, Fourth Edition (2008); Nancy Clark’s Food Guide for Marathoners, Second Edition; and The Cyclist’s Food Guide.

Pierre A. d’Hemecourt, MD
Primary Care Sports Medicine Specialist, Division of Sports Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Boston; Lecturer, Orthopedics, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital.

Kevin deWeber, MD, FAAFP
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army; Director, Military Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship and  Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD.

Craig Horswill, PhD
Senior Research Fellow, Gatorade Science Innovation and Support, Barrington, IL. Prior to joining Gatorade, Dr. Horswill spent six years as a research scientist in the Division of Nutrition and Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, at The Ohio State University and Columbus Children’s Hospital conducting research on carbohydrate and protein metabolism in children. He also spent two years on the faculty in the Human Performance Lab at Ball State University.      
                                                                       
John M. Keggi, MD
Director, Department of Orthopaedics, Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, CT; Clinical Instructor, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.

Paul Langer, DPM
Group practice, Minnesota Orthopaedic Specialists, Minneapolis, MN; Assistant Clinical Faculty, University of Minnesota School of Medicine; Author, Great Feet for Life: Footcare and Footwear for Healthy Aging.

Mark S. Link, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine; Director, Center for the Evaluation of Athletes; Co-Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory; Co-Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, Boston, MA.

Peter Moyer, MD, FACEP
Professor, Emergency Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Medical Director, Boston EMS, Fire and Police.

Donald E. O’Malley, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon, Cape Cod Sports Medicine, Inc., Falmouth, MA; Associate Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Medical Co-Director, Falmouth Road Race and Cape Cod Marathon; Team Physician: Falmouth Commodores, Cape Cod Baseball League.

Neha P. Raukar, MD, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brown Medical School; Team Physician, Primary Care Sports Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI.

Arthur J. Siegel, MD
Director, Internal Medicine, Harvard’s McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Paul D. Thompson, MD 
Professor of Medicine, University of Connecticut, School of Medicine, Farmington, CT; Director, Division of Cardiology, Hartford Hospital, Preventive Cardiology, Hartford, CT; Associate Editor, Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine; Editor, Exercise and Sports Cardiology;  Past President, American College of Sports Medicine.

Chris Troyanos, ATC
Medical Coordinator, Boston Athletic Association; President, Sports Medicine Consultants, Boston, MA.

 

 

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