The Kentucky Boxing and Wrestling Medical Advisory Panel named Tad R. Seifert, MD, to its board, according to KY Forward.
Here are five takeaways:
1. Dr. Seifert currently serves as director of Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare’s sports concussion program.
2. He is also a clinical professor of neurology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington.
3. In 2013, the NCAA appointed Dr. Seifert head of the Headache Task Force.
4. Dr. Seifert earned his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City and completed his residency at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. He also underwent a headache and facial pain fellowship at the Houston Headache Clinic.
5. The KBWC also added Kendra J. Grubb, MD, a cardiovascular surgeon, Timothy S. Acord, DDS, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, and Scott Farner, MD, an orthopedic surgeon to the medical advisory panel.