The University of Hawaiʻi Rainbow Warriors weren’t the only ones awed by the massive stadium –called the Ohio State Horseshoe, or “the shoe”–when the team played the Buckeyes earlier September 12.
“It was an amazing experience to see the Warriors play in front of 107,000 football fans in Columbus,” said Justin Young, MD, a faculty member of the Sports Medicine Fellowship at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM).
Because our physician-faculty also serve as team doctors, four of them traveled to Ohio to care for the players. This photograph was taken as the stadium began to fill. The doctors are Gale Prentiss, MD; Mark Santi, MD; Nick Crawford, MD; and JustinYoung, MD.
JABSOM’s Sports Medicine Fellowship program was re-established in 2013, when Hawai`i Pacific Health (HPH) joined the medical school and University of Hawai’i Athletics in announcing HPH would support the program, which trains physicians as highly qualified sports medicine specialists. The Sports Medicine faculty at JABSOM, based at the Straub Clinic and Hospital, also provide quality care for our UH student athletes.
About the faculty
Dr. Andrew Nichols has served as Program Director of the University of Hawai’i Sports Medicine Fellowship Program since its establishment in 2002. He was Head Team Physician for the UH Mānoa Athletics Department from 1994 until 2011, when he was appointed as Director of University Health Services Mānoa. He has also served as Team Physician for USA National Soccer and Water Polo teams. Dr. Nichols is a graduate of Stanford University, where he was a 4-year varsity letterman in competitive swimming. He received his medical degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and completed his Family Medicine residency and Sports Medicine fellowship at UCLA. Dr. Nichols is Board certified in Family Medicine and holds a CAQ in Sports Medicine. His research interests include sports injury management outcomes, the use of complementary-alternative medicine by athletes, knee pain in aquatics athletes, and evidence based medicine in Sports Medicine particularly as it applies to sports and athletic medicine in Hawai’i and the Pacific region.
Dr. Justin Young joined the UH Sports Medicine Fellowship Program faculty in October 2013. He is an Assistant Team Physician for the UH Mānoa Athletics Department and a sports medicine physician at the Straub Clinic Bone & Joint Center of Hawaiʻi Pacific Health. Dr. Young earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and medical degree from JABSOM. He completed Internal Medicine residency training at University of Hawai’i and a Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. Dr. Young is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Sports Medicine. He has research interests in Wilderness Medicine.
Dr. Gale Prentiss has served as Head Team Physician for the UH Mānoa Athletics Department since 2011. She received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College, medical degree from JABSOM, Family Medicine residency training at Scottsdale Healthcare, and Sports Medicine fellowship training at UC Davis. Dr. Prentiss previously was a Team Physician at UC Davis. She is Board-certified in Family Medicine and holds a CAQ in Sports Medicine.
For more information about the JABSOM Sports Medicine Fellowship:See The Sports Medicine Residency Program Website.
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