American Sports Medicine Institute Chairman James Andrews, MD, of Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, announced the Inaugural Sports Medicine Conference for Sports Agents.
Here are five things to know:
1. Sports medicine specialists will teach sports agents about the latest advancements in sports medicine, injury prevention, treatments and surgical procedures at the one-and-a-half-day conference.
2. Sessions will inform agents how to provide timely, valuable advice to athlete clients undergoing Tommy John surgery or suffering ACL injuries, concussions and more.
3. Arthrex and Zimmer Biomet are the conference's sponsors.
4. Lyle Cain, MD, and Jeff Dugas, MD, of Birmingham, Ala.-based Andrews Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center are the inaugural conference's co-chairs.
5. The conference will take place on Friday, June 9 and Saturday, June 10 in Atlanta.
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