Features In addition to the Sports Medicine rotation available for our residents, Lutheran General Hospital offers a one-year fellowship program in Sports Medicine. Under the direction of Dr. William W. Briner, the Sports Medicine Fellowship provides an excellent opportunity to learn Sports Medicine in the dynamic environment of the Sports Medicine Center, the Nesset Family Medicine Center, and innumerable sporting events in the Chicago area, which afford the special opportunity of learning Sports Medicine on the front lines. Ongoing research and teaching are an active part of this program.

The Fellowship Experience Includes:

• Clinical patient care in the Sports Medicine Center and in the Nesset Family Medicine Center
  
• Training in exercise treadmill testing.
  
• Game and event coverage for The University of Illinois.
  
• Responsibility as a high school team physician (game coverage and training room visits)
  
• Weekly Sports Medicine Fellow’s Conference
  
• Exercise prescription for sedentary and active patients
  
• Assistant team physician for the WNBA Chicago Sky

Sports Medicine Center Onsite Facilities and Personnel

• State-of-the-art rehabilitation facilities and modalities
  
• Nine physical therapists, all of whom have training and expertise in sports medicine rehabilitation
  
• Primary Care Sports Medicine Center, Fellowship Director
  
• Fitness Center, four exercise physiologists
  
• Sports nutritionist
  
• Adjacent radiology and MRI, two radiologists who specialize in musculoskeletal MRI interpretation
  

Other Activities

• Cadaver review of anatomy
  
• There are several “special events” that our center is involved with covering each year. These include:
  

• The Chicago Marathon (Data we collected in the medical tent of this race was published in JAMA’s 1996 Olympic Sports Medicine issue.)
  
• The Chicago Triathlon
  
• The AVP Pro-Beach Volleyball Tour
  
• Other Chicago area distance running races.
  

Sports Pre-Participation Exams

• Our center is responsible for hundreds of these each year. The fellow will be exposed to pre-sports exams in several different contexts, including “station” type exams at the high school and college, individual exams in the office, and sport-specific screenings at the Sports Medicine Center. This is a topic of ongoing research interest at our center.
  

University of Illinois at Chicago (The "Flames")

• Our fellow serves as primary care physician to the 250 varsity athletes at this NCAA Division I Institution. At least one-half day per week will be spent in the UIC Sports Medicine Center and Training Room. Mark Hutchinson, M.D. is the orthopedic surgeon who will be involved with the clinical instruction of the fellow at the UIC.