Athletes and COVID-19: Brown Alpert Medical School’s Owens LIVE at 4 PM
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Athletes and COVID-19: Brown Alpert Medical School’s Owens LIVE at 4 PM
Owens is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brown and Chief of Sports Medicine at Miriam Hospital. He is a board-certified orthopaedic sports medicine surgeon whose clinical practice focuses on complex knee, shoulder, and cartilage injuries.
While the Rhode Island Interscholastic League has canceled high school sports for the rest of the school year, Owens will discuss how young athletes can stay healthy — and what he envisions the future of sports medicine will look like moving forward.
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Owens is a graduate of the United States Military Academy and Georgetown University School of Medicine. He completed his orthopaedic residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship at West Point.
Before coming to Brown University, Dr. Owens was Chief of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He is Associate Editor for the American Journal of Sports Medicine and is currently the Director of Sports Medicine Research at Brown and Team Physician for Brown University Athletics.
About Alpert Medical School -- and Smart Health
Since granting its first Doctor of Medicine degrees in 1975, the Warren Alpert Medical School has become a national leader in medical education and biomedical research.
By attracting first-class physicians and researchers to Rhode Island over the past four decades, the Medical School and its seven affiliated teaching hospitals have radically improved the state's health care environment, from health care policy to patient care.
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