Sports medicine is an ACGME accredited one year fellowship to train residents to be confident and competent in management of the athlete’s health concerns. The curriculum, with an inherent flexibility to meet individual resident’s need, will provide a solid foundation for care of the athlete, and if desired, an unparalleled preparation for an opportunity in primary care sports medicine. The program is headed up by Russell White MD, and George Harris, MD, MS, both CAQ in Sports Medicine. Billy Irons, MD also has an interest in Sports Medicine and staffs the clinic.



Truman Medical Center welcomes our 2008-09 Sports Medicine fellows.

Brian Albertson, MD
undergraduate: Purdue University
medical school: Rush Medical College in Chicago
residency: Lancaster General Hospital, PA

Mike Solis, MD
undergraduate: Texas State University, San Marcos
medical school: Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
residency: University of Texas, Houston

Learning opportunities

• The Sports Medicine Center is the only Primary Care Sports Medicine clinic in the region, led by Dr. White and Dr. Harris, Professors of Medicine in Community and Family Medicine.

• Our Sports Medicine Center has fracture and cast management, exercise stress testing, joint injections, and works with physical therapy to effectively meet the community’s sports medicine needs.

• Serve as a team physician for a local high school by covering two half days per week, and will be scheduled in the training room with certified athletic trainers.

• Participate in and provide lectures on Sports Medicine topic for Noon Conferences.

• Rotations with particular emphasis on orthopedic sports medicine, and musculoskeletal anatomy review as it relates to sports medicine.

• Our new center has a exercise stress treadmill for cardiopulmonary evaluation, including coronary artery disease and exercise induced asthma, sporting, and exercise induced asthma, and for an exercise prescription.

Resident Selection
Two Sports Medicine fellows per year are accepted. You can apply to the Sports Medicine fellowship. ERAS # 1272813107

Compensation AY 2008-09
$48,500

Contact
Debbie States, 816.404.7106