Ep 020 - Pediatric Sports Medicine with Dr. Susannah Briskin

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Dr. Briskin is a Pediatric Sports Medicine physician at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, as well as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics within the Division of Sports Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH.

Dr. Briskin completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester in 1994; completed her medical degree at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1999; completed a residency in pediatrics in 2002 and Chief Resident year in 2003 both at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital. She then completed a two year Sports Medicine Fellowship at Akron Children's Hospital before returning to Rainbow Babies and Children's to join the faculty in 2005.

In 2007, she founded the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at Rainbow. It serves to train both allopathic and osteopathic physicians in the field of Primary Care Sports Medicine, and Dr. Briskin oversees the fellows’ educational activities, including community sports coverage.

Dr. Briskin is also heavily involved in the Cleveland community. She serves as Head Medical Team Physician at Case Western Reserve University, as well as two other schools, and serves as a medical consultant and concussion consultant for yet two more. Additionally, Dr. Briskin is also the medical co-director of the Ohio Youth Soccer Association North, as well as the team physician of their Olympic Development Program.

Finally, Dr. Briskin is the Co-Director of University Hospitals Sports Concussion Center, where she has helped to develop a program to train primary care physicians in the community as well as University Hospitals staff in concussion diagnosis and management, a field which she is one of her primary research interests.

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