University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC Sports Medicine Staff
September 3, 2002 | Football
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Judy Adcock |
Dr. Louis Almekinders |
Dr. Joe Armen |
Dr. Mark Booher |
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Marc Davis |
Kevin Guskiewiscz |
Chris Hirth |
Dr. Dan Hooker |
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C.B. Lehn |
Doug Ludolph |
Sally Mays |
Scott Oliaro |
Darin Padua |
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Meredith Petschauer |
Dr. Bill Prentice |
Rob Schneider |
Dr. Bryan Smith |
Dr. Tim Taft |
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Gregory Tuttle |
Judy Adcock - jadcock@email.unc.edu
Judy Adcock is in her 22nd year with the University. Since 1980 she has worked with all of the Carolina varsity teams.
Adcock received her undergraduate degree from Radford University before attending the Roanoke College and Community Hospital of Roanoke Valley School of Nursing.
In addition to her work with UNC athletic teams, Adcock holds an Adjunct Faculty position with the UNC Division of Sports Medicine and she has served with the American Heart Association as a Basic Life Support Instructor and Instructor Trainer since 1983.
Dr. Joseph Armen - joseph_armen@med.unc.edu
Dr. Joseph Armen currently serves as the team physician for the men's and women's indoor/outdoor track and field, cross country, gymnastics, women's volleyball and men's junior varsity basketball teams.
Dr. Armen received a B.S. in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University and went on to earn his medical degree from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine. At the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Armen was valedictorian of his class and earned awards for overall academic achievement and excellence in sports medicine.
In addition to his duties with the University, Dr. Armen also serves as the team physician for Chapel Hill High School.
Dr. Mark Booher - booher@email.unc.edu
Dr. Mark Booher is a second year primary care sports medicine fellow at UNC. He currently serves as the team physician for the men's soccer, track and field, junior varsity basketball and women's tennis teams.
Prior to arriving at UNC, Booher worked with local colleges and high schools in the Rochester area as well as working as a physician at the Empire State Games for three years.
ooher and his wife, Bonnie, have a two-year old daughter named Kaitlyn and they are expecting a second child in October 2002.
Dr. Tom Brickner - tbrickne@email.unc.edu
Dr. Tom Brickner has been a team physician for the University of North Carolina since 1996.
rickner earned a B.S. degree in biochemistry through St. Joseph's College. He then attended medical school at the Medical College of Ohio and completed a residency in Family Practice at the Toledo Hospital in 1990.
After completing his residency, Brickner served five years in the US Navy, including two years as chief physician and medical department head for the United States Antarctic Program.
rickner is Board certified in Family Practice, with a Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine and has specialized training in cold weather and diving medicine.
Dr. Mario Ciocca - ciocca@email.unc.edu
Dr. Mario Ciocca is in his sixth season as the team physician for the baseball team.
Ciocca earned a B.S. in biochemical engineering from Columbia University in 1989. He received his MD from the New Jersey Medical School in 1993 and then went on to receive Internal Medicine training at UNC in 1996.
Ciocca was certified in sports medicine in 1999 and has co-authored a book chapter on athletic heart syndrome.
Marc Davis - davis5@email.unc.edu
Marc Davis serves as the head trainer for the University of North Carolina men's basketball team, a position he has held since the 1977-78 season.
Davis received his Bachelor of Science degree in physical therapy from the University of North Carolina in 1974. After graduating from Carolina, he worked as a physical therapist at Danville Memorial Hospital in Danville, Va., from October of 1974 to May of 1975. He began his current tenure on the sports medicine staff at Carolina in July of 1975.
The 50-year-old Davis, a native of Wilmington, N.C., and alumnus of New Hanover High School, is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and the National Athletic Trainers Association.
He was the recipient of the award for the outstanding physical therapist of the year for 1998 by the North Carolina Physical Therapy Association.
Davis' duties at Carolina consist of providing physical therapy and athletic training services to Carolina athletic teams. In addition to the men's basketball team, he also works closely with the football team and he serves as head trainer for the men's and women's swimming and diving teams. He also provides similar services to members of the general student body who are recommended to him by Student Health Service physicians. Davis also works with the basketball coaching staff to coordinate team travel.
Davis is married to the former Paula Gee. They have a 12-year-old daughter, Irma Consuelo.
Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz - gus@email.unc.edu
Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D., A.T.C. was hired by the Department
Exercise and Sport Science in July 1995. Since that time he has served
as the director of the Undergraduate Athletic Training Education
Program,Director of the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory,
and Director of Graduate Studies. His teaching responsibilities
include Cadaver Anatomy (graduate), Therapeutic Modalities, Injury
Evaluation and Human Anatomy.
Kevin is a 1995 graduate of the University of Virginia's doctoral program in Sports Medicine. His dissertation was titled The effect of mild head injury on postural stability and cognitive function. He has continued working on this line of research, and has published articles related to mild head injury and balance in several journal including Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Journal of Athletic Training, Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy, and Journal of Sport Rehabilitation. He recently completed two book chapters related to balance and orthopaedic rehabilitation, and one on Assessment of Mild Head Injury in Sport. Kevin received his Master of Science degree from The University of Pittsburgh in 1992, while working as a graduate assistant athletic trainer for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He earn his Bachelor of Science degree from West Chester University of Pennsylvania in 1989.
Kevin serves on the editorial board for three journals and chaired the NATA's Pronouncement Committee on Mild Head Injury. He has presented several papers related to concussion in sport. He was the recipient of the 1997 Kenneth Knight Outstanding Research Manuscript for the Journal of Athletic Training. He and his wife Amy have 3 children Jacob, Nathan and Adam.
Chris Hirth - chirth@email.unc.edu
Hirth, a native of Milwuakee, Wis., is now in his seventh year with Carolina athletics as the staff athletic trainer for men,s soccer, gymnastics and women, lacrosse. He also serves as a staff physical therapist at the James Taylor Student Health Service.
A guest lecturer in the undergraduate and graduate programs in athletic training at UNC, Hirth received his B.S. in physical therapy with a minor in psychology from the University of Wisconsin LaCrosse in 1989.
He completed his masters degree in human movement science with a concentration in athletic training here at Carolina in 1994. Hirth has worked in private practices throughout the Triangle area in the past, specializing in orthopedics and sports medicine. He is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and of the sports and orthopedic sections of the American Physical Therapy Association.
Hirth is married to Anna Hirth and has a son, Blake. He enjoys spending time with his family, exercising and reading.
Dr. Dan Hooker - hooker@uncaa.unc.edu
Dan Hooker is in his 14th season as head athletic trainer for the University of North Carolina football team. Hooker has been on the Carolina athletic training staff since 1972.
In addition to his work with the gridiron Tar Heels, Hooker also coordinates athletic training and physical therapy at Carolina. He has held that position since 1984.
In the summer of 2002, the National Athletic Trainers Association named Hooker the nation's Most Outstanding Athletic Trainer.
Hooker earned his Bachelor of Science degree in physical therapy from the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond in 1967. He also received a Master of Science degree in secondary education from the University of Southern California in 1971 and Ph.D in education from Carolina in 1981. He has been an NATA Certified Athletic Trainer since 1972 and is licensed as an athletic trainer in North Carolina. He has been a Board Certified Sports Physical Therapist since 1987 and has served the Atlantic Coast Conference Sports Medicine Association as president and secretary. Dan and his wife, Sharon, have two sons, Sean and Stefan.
C.B. Lehn - clehn@email.unc.edu
Clairbeth Lehn, better known as C.B., has been on the UNC sports medicine staff since 1977. She has worked with the women's basketball team since her arrival in Chapel Hill, overseeing the rehabilitation of musculo-skeletal injuries as well as administering first aid. She also serves as the head trainer for volleyball and baseball and instructs graduate and undergraduate student trainers.
Lehn graduated from West Chester with a degree in health and physical education in 1973 and received her certificate in physical therapy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. She was a staff athletic trainer at Penn from 1973-75 and arrived in Chapel Hill in 1977.
She traveled to Russia as a trainer with the U.S. Deaf volleyball team in 1992, and in '93 served as a U.S. team trainer at the Deaf Olympics in Bulgaria. She is a member of the American Physical Therapy Association and the National Athletic Trainers Association.
Sally Mays - smays@email.unc.edu
Sally Mays is entering her fifth year at UNC as staff athletic trainer and supervisor for the Fetzer Athletic Training Room, which provides sports medicine services for 24 varsity sports.
Mays primarily works with the men's and women's fencing, tennis, cross country and indoor/outdoor track and field teams.
Mays graduated from Washington State University in 1986, where she earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education and athletic training. She then received a Master's degree in sports medicine from the University of North Carolina.
Mays worked for the University of Arkansas and the University of Minnesota as an athletic trainer before returning to Chapel Hill in 1997 to assume her current position.
In 1996 she was named to the United States Olympic Team Medical Staff working with USA Volleyball in Atlanta, Georgia. She has also worked at the US Olympic Festival in 1995 with USA Basketball and US World Figure Skating Championships in 1998.
Scott Oliaro - oliaro@uncaa.unc.edu
Scott Oliaro is in his fifth season as Assistant Football Athletic Trainer.Oliaro assists the education
program as a lecturer for both the undergraduate and graduate
athletic training programs. He has authored several articles in
various medical journals, including the Journal of Athletic Training.
In addition, Oliaro has presented a variety of topics at national, district and local levels. He currently serves as the program director for the UNC football Athletic Trainer's conference held annually at Carolina.
Oliaro is a 1993 graduate of Cornell University where he earned a B.S. in nutritional sciences. At Cornell he was a three-year football letterwinner, a two-time captain and a two-year Ivy League selection at tailback. A native of Lansing, Mich., Oliaro grew up in Burlington, Vt. In 1999, Sports Illustrated named Oliaro Vermont's 42nd best athlete of all-time.
Oliaro earned a Master's degree in athletic training from North Carolina in 1996. Oliaro is a NATABOC certified athletic trainer and a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association. In 1996, he worked the Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Prior to coming to UNC, Scott spent two years as an assistant athletic trainer for American University and the Washington Capitals. He and his wife, the former Jeri Dorezas, reside in Durham.
Dr. Bill Prentice - prentice@email.unc.edu
Dr. Bill Prentice is currently the athletic trainer and physical therapist for the women's soccer team, which has won 17 NCAA Championships.
Dr. Prentice is also a professor in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at UNC, teaching graduate courses in sports medicine, athletic training, and first aid.
Throughout his career, Dr. Prentice has won the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer and the Distinguished Athletic Training Educator awards from the NATA. He has also been selected to serve as an athletic trainer at several United States Olympic Committee events.
Prentice earned both a bachelor's and Master's degree in athletic training and physical education from the University of Delaware and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in sports medicine and applied physiology from the University of Virginia. He also received a Bachelor's degree in physical therapy from the University of North Carolina.
Rob Schneider - rschneid@email.unc.edu
Rob Schneider is in his 11th year as a member of the UNC Sports Medicine department. Schneider has served as an assistant football athletic trainer for the past 10 years.
In addition to football, Schneider has worked as the head athletic trainer for the Carolina men's lacrosse, wrestling and field hockey teams as well as the team physical therapist for the men's and women's golf teams.
Schneider earned a B.S. degree in physical therapy from Boston University in 1989 and he completed his Master's degree in orthopedic physical therapy at UNC.
Prior to coming to UNC, Schneider was an assistant Athletic Trainer for the New York / New Jersey Knights of the World League of American Football, which is now known as the NFL Europe.
Schneider and his wife, Anne Marie, reside in Raleigh with two lovely daughters.
Dr. Bryan Smith- smithbw@email.unc.edu | heelsdoc@unc.edu
Dr. Bryan Smith is in his 10th season as team physician. Smith, a 1979 graduate of the University of North Carolina with an A.B. in chemistry, received his medical degree from Duke University in 1988.
A Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Orthopaedics at UNC, Smith was an assistant team physician at UCLA from 1991-93.
A native of New Bern, N.C., Smith was a North Carolina Merit and Carle C. Conway Scholar. He received his M.A. in exercise physiology from UNC in 1982 and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in that field from Michigan State in 1984.
He was a resident in the UNC's Department of Pediatrics from 1988-91. Smith is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, and a member of the American Board of Pediatrics. He is the chairman of the NCAA Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports Committee and medical consultant to both the NCAA Football Rules Committee and the NCAA Baseball Research Panel.
He is married to Dr. Molly Froelich Smith, a 1979 UNC graduate who earned her medical degree at Carolina in 1988. They have a daughter, Mary Bryan, and a son, Stephen.
Dr. Timothy Taft- ttaft@med.unc.edu
Dr. Timothy Taft is the team's orthopaedic surgeon and the Director of Sports Medicine at the University of North Carolina.
Taft, a native of St. Louis, Mo., received his A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1964 and his M.D. from the University of Missouri in 1969. He completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at Carolina in 1974.
Taft holds one of only two endowed professorships in sports medicine in the United States, the Max Novich Distinguished Professor of Sports Medicine chair.
He is the president of the Council of Delegates for the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American College of Sports Medicine, the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Sports for the North Carolina Medical Society and has been an examiner for the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Taft served as team physician for the 1979 U.S. Pan American Games Team and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team and was head physician for the 1981 U.S. World University Games Team. He has served as the team physician for numerous U.S.A. national teams including the U.S. basketball teams which won the 1986 Men's and the 1990 Women's World Championships.
Taft and his wife, Judy, have two children, Todd and Becky. Becky is married to Aaron Fecher, a marine, and they have a son, Coby.
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