Sports Medicine Service (2024)

Sports Medicine at Mass General Brigham

Mass General Brigham Sports Medicine leads the nation in sports medicine research, technology and innovation. This is the place where doctors listen to both your body and your dreams. Whether you’re a collegiate athlete, a weekend warrior, or just committed to living an active lifestyle, our experts will help you safely and quickly return to the sports and activities you love.

The Mass General Brigham Sports Medicine team cares for the whole athlete and addresses any injury. We are the sports specialists that elite athletes from the New England Patriots to Division 1 college players depend on. We offer a full range of services tailored to your needs, including sports conditioning and injury prevention, advanced surgical and non-surgical treatment options, and injury rehabilitation.

Massachusetts General Hospital clinicians collaborate with sports medicine specialists across the Mass General Brigham network at other world-class centers like Brigham and Women's, Newton-Wellesley Hospital and the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network in order to provide the most advanced, customized medical treatment plans available for your sports injury. We help you optimize your recovery and achieve your goals. Our clinical team, which includes surgeons, physiatrists, nurses and rehabilitation therapists, benefits from Mass General’s 100 years of experience in the research and practice of sports medicine in Boston.

Visit Sports Medicine at Mass General Brigham or call us to learn more: 617-726-0500

Helping All Athletes Excel

The Sports Medicine Service at Mass General is a multidisciplinary team made up of doctors from diverse experiential backgrounds. Our team treats novice and professional athletes competing in every major sport, including:

Some of the best scholastic, collegiate and professional sports teams and organizations in the world entrust their athletic care to our sports medicine team.

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  Augustus "Gus" D. Mazzocca, MD

  • Medical Director, Mass General Brigham Sports Medicine
  • Chief, Sports Medicine Service
  • Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School

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  Peter Asnis, MD

  • Mass General Brigham Director of Professional Sports
  • Head Team Physician: Boston Bruins; Head Team Orthopaedic Surgeon: Boston Red Sox; Team Physician: New England Patriots
  • Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  Ashwin Babu, MD

  • President of Medical Staff: Spaulding Rehabilitation
  • Team Physician: New England Revolution, USA Paralympic Soccer; Consultant: New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, Harvard University, Curry College, Suffolk University
  • Associate Program Director: Spaulding/Harvard Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Training Program

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  Eric Berkson, MD

  • Sports Medicine Orthopaedic Surgeon
  • Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School
  • Team Physician, Boston Red Sox

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  Haylee Borgstrom, MD

  • Sports Medicine Physiatrist
  • Team Physician: Boston Red Sox
  • Instructor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School

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  Gian Corrado, MD

  • Director, Emergency Sports Medicine
  • Head Team Physician, Northeastern University; Team Physician: New England Patriots
  • Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  Stephanie DeLuca, MD

  • Sports Medicine Physiatrist
  • Pediatric and Adolescent Sports Medicine Specialist
  • Instructor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School

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  Thomas Holovacs, MD

  • Shoulder Surgeon & Sports Medicine Orthopaedic Surgeon
  • Instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  Ian D. Hutchinson, MD

  • Sports Medicine Orthopaedic Surgeon
  • Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School

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  Abiye Ibiebele, MD

  • Emergency Sports Medicine Physician
  • Team Physician, Northeastern University
  • Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School

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  Steven Makovitch, DO

  • Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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  Scott Martin, MD

  • Director, Joint Preservation Service; Director, Sports Medicine Fellowship Program
  • Medical Director & Head Team Physician: New England Patriots
  • Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  Kelly McInnis, DO

  • Sports Medicine Physiatrist
  • Team Physician: Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots; Consultant: Boston Ballet, Boston Bruins, New England Revolution
  • Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School

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  Giovanna Ignacio Subira Medina, MD, MSC, PhD

  • Pediatric Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Surgeon
  • Adult Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Surgeon
  • Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School

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  Robert Nascimento, MD

  • Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Chief of Sports Medicine & Shoulder Surgery
  • Head Team Physician & Medical Director, Boston College; Team Physician: New England Patriots, Boston Renegades, Wellesley College
  • Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  Evan O'Donnell, MD

  • Sports Medicine Orthopaedic Surgeon
  • Assistant Team Physician: New England Patriots; Harvard College
  • Instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  Nikolaos Paschos, MD, PhD

  • Co-Chief, Children's Orthopaedics
  • Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon
  • Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  Mark Price, MD, PhD

  • Sports Medicine Orthopaedic Surgeon
  • Team Physician: Boston Red Sox
  • Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  Lars Richardson, MD

  • Sports Medicine Orthopaedic Surgeon
  • Team Physician: New England Patriots, Boston Bruins; Harvard College, Wheelock College, Wentworth College
  • Instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  Miho Tanaka, MD, PhD

  • Director, Women's Sports Medicine Program
  • Head Team Physician: New England Revolution; Team Physician: Boston Red Sox, Boston Ballet, Boston Glory
  • Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  George Theodore, MD

  • Foot, Ankle & Knee Orthopaedic Surgeon
  • Team Physician: Boston Red Sox; Consultant: New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, New England Revolution
  • Instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  Jon J.P. Warner, MD

  • Co-Chief, Shoulder Service
  • Shoulder Orthopaedic Surgeon
  • Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

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  Gregory Waryasz, MD

  • Director, Foot & Ankle Sports Medicine
  • Foot & Ankle Orthopaedic Surgeon
  • Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Sports Medicine Research and Development at Mass General

Scott Martin, MD, sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon and director of the Joint Preservation Service and the Sports Medicine Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses his research into the labrum and the chondrolabral junction of the shoulder.

Mass General serves as the gold standard for global medical research as the largest hospital-based research program to receive NIH support, with more than one billion dollars in research operations funding. Approximately 1,200 clinical trials are taking place at Mass General at any given time. Mass General attracts the world’s leading sports medicine clinicians and researchers, who are constantly testing and improving practices, procedures and technology with the shared goal of improving patient outcomes.

Below are a few examples of sports medicine research currently underway at Mass General:

• Mass General’s Women’s Sports Medicine Program leads the advancement of women’s sports and exercise medicine through multidisciplinary expert clinical care, research and education. As women continually break barriers in their careers in sports, the Women’s Sports Medicine Program at Mass General is designed to support the growing medical needs of this unique population.
• Mass General’s (FARIL) is a state-of-the-art lab committed to a comprehensive understanding of foot and ankle health. FARIL develops novel approaches to foot & ankle education, technology and innovation and is dedicated to delivering the best care to patients of all athletic abilities.
• Mass General’s Advances in Motion is an edited aggregation of summaries and links to the latest of our team’s academic medical research as published by the world’s leading peer-reviewed journals. Explore the latest findings in Sports Medicine on Advances in Motion.