Sports Medicine Clinician Workshop (March 6, 2026)

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Join leading experts in sports medicine as they share the latest insights on injury prevention and treatment. Experience an interactive lab focused on the essential roles of athletic trainers, physical therapists, physicians, PAs, and RNs in rehabilitation. Our evidence-based lectures will equip you with current research, while hands-on labs offer opportunities for questions and deeper learning. Don’t miss this chance to enhance your expertise in sports medicine!

Price range: $10.00 through $25.00

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Overview

Join leading experts in sports medicine as they share the latest insights on injury prevention and treatment. Experience an interactive lab focused on the essential roles of athletic trainers, physical therapists and sports medicine clinicians in rehabilitation. Our evidence-based lectures will equip you with current research, while hands-on labs offer opportunities for questions and deeper learning. Don’t miss this chance to enhance your expertise in sports medicine!

Course Format 

This year’s workshop will be held in the Deveber Conference Room, Boston Children’s Waltham, 9 Hope Avenue, Waltham, MA 02453.

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate when and how to properly use: Manual therapy techniques, cupping, kinesiology tape, and scraping massage tools.
    2. Comprehend best practices for caring for common injuries and how to develop sports injury prevention and strength & conditioning programs.
    3. Review the latest research in sports medicine injuries and rehab and ask questions on how to identify and diagnose them.
    4. Review foot, ankle, and back injuries ask questions on how to diagnose and rehab them.
Registration

To register, please click on the register tab above. If this is your first time registering for a conference at Boston Children’s Hospital, you will need to create an account. Returning users can log in to their account to complete the registration process.   

 Registration Type Rate   
 All Clinicians  $25.00
 Trainee/Student $10.00

Pre-registration is required. Once you have registered you will receive a confirmation email with a registration receipt. Course access instructions will be sent a few days prior to the course launch. If you have questions or need assistance with registration, please direct all inquiries to cmedepartment@childrens.harvard.edu

Cancellation of Services
Although highly unlikely, in case an event is canceled or postponed, Boson Children’s can provide a full refund or offer a credit towards future events to those who have already registered.

Refund Policy
Refunds will be made in the following ways: For payments received by credit or debit cards, the same credit/debit card will be refunded.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

 

 

Physician

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Physician Assistant

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Nurse

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for 6.00 contact hours for nurses. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Physical Therapists 

Physical Therapists completing this course receive 6.00 APTA MA CE Credits.

Athletic Trainers

This activity carries a maximum of 6 contact hours. Athletic Trainers should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Policy 
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure Statement

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients:

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Additional information

Duration

Format

Faculty

Kristin Whitney, MD, MA

Sports Medicine Physician, Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine; Director, Injured Runner’s Clinic; Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound; Co-Medical Director, Boston Marathon

 

Corey Dawkins, MS, ATC, LAT

Athletic Trainer, Sports Medicine Division

Eric Menchi, MS, CSCS, PRT, PN1

Lead Injury Prevention Specialist, Sports Medicine Division

Hunter Hatton, MSAT

Injury Prevention Specialist, The Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention; Sports Medicine Division

Andrea Stracciolini, MD, FACSM, FAAP

Attending Physician, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department; Director, Medical Sports Medicine; Director of Performing Arts Medicine; Team Physician, Regis College

Heather Southwick, MSPT

Physical Therapist, Sports Medicine Division

Benton Heyworth, MD

Orthopedic Surgeon, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department; Associate Program Director, Orthopedic Sports Medicine Fellowship; Ortho Consultant, Wentworth College

Genna Patacchiola, DPT

Physical Therapist, Department of Physical Therapy; Sports Medicine Division

Shawn Cameron, MS, LAT, ATC, PES

Lead Injury Prevention Specialist, Sports Medicine Division

Peter Kriz, MD

Attending Physician, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department; Concussion Specialist, Providence Bruins (AHL)

 

Miguel Gonzalez, MS, L/ATC

Injury Prevention Specialist, Sports Medicine Division

Carl Gustafson, PT, LAT, ATC, CSCS

Physical Therapist and Athletic Trainer; Rehab Program Development, Sports Medicine Division, The Micheli Center

Michael Cook, BSc, ATC

Injury Prevention Specialist, Sports Medicine Division

Dai Sugimoto, PhD, ATC, CSCS

Associate Director of Clinical Research, The Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention; Research Technologist, Sports Medicine Division

William Meehan, MD

Attending Physician, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department; Director, The Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention; Director, Emerging Physician Leadership Program

Michael O’Brien, MD

Attending Physician, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department; Director, Sports Concussion Clinic

 

Kerri Regan, DPT

Physical Therapist, Sports Medicine Division

Michael O’Brien, MD

Attending Physician, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department; Director, Sports Concussion Clinic

 

Sarah Collins, LAT, ATC, CPT

Injury Prevention Specialist

 

Schedule

 

Friday, March 6, 2025
Workshop Session 1 (Choose 1)
8:00 – 8:45AM

Workshop 1: Running Injuries: Evaluation, Gait Analysis, and Gait Retraining Lab

Speakers: Kristin Whitney, MD, MA, Corey Dawkins, MS, ATC, LAT

Workshop 2: Tension, Training, and Learning: A Unique Approach to Individualized Performance Programs Using an Interdisciplinary Perspective

Speakers: Eric Menchi, MS, CSCS, PRT, PN1, Hunter Hatton, MSAT

SI Joint and Hip Conditions: Evaluation and Rehab Lab
8:45 – 9:30 AM
Speakers: Andrea Stracciolini, MD, FACSM, FAAP, Heather Southwick, MSPT
ACL: Evaluation, Prevention, Return to Play, with Lab
9:30 – 10:15AM
Speakers: Benton Heyworth, MD, Genna Patacchiola, DPT
Hand and Upper Body Extremities: Evaluation, Return to Throw, with Lab
10:15 – 11:00AM
Speakers: Peter Kriz, MD, Shawn Cameron, MS, LAT, ATC, PES, Miguel Gonzalez, MS, L/ATC
Manual Therapy Techniques Lab
11:00 – 11:45AM
Speakers: Carl Gustafson, PT, LAT, ATC, CSCS, Michael Cook, BSc, ATC
Lunch: Keynote Speaker- Latest Research on the ACL
11:45AM – 12:10PM
Dai Sugimoto, PhD, ATC, CSCS
Back Injuries: Evaluation and Rehab Lab
12:10 – 12:55PM
Speakers: William Meehan, MD, Carl Gustafson, PT, LAT, ATC, CSCS
Workshop Session 2 (Choose 1)
12:55 – 1:25PM

Workshop 3: Concussion: Evaluation, Prevention, Return to Academics and Play, with Lab

Speakers: Michael O’Brien, MD, Shawn Cameron, MS, LAT, ATC, PES, Miguel Gonzalez, MS, L/ATC

Workshop 4: Best Practices – Cupping, Kinesio Tape, & Scraping Massage Tools Lab

Speakers: Heather Southwick, MSPT, Kerri Regan, DPT, Genna Patacchiola, DPT

Foot and Ankle: Evaluation with Rehab Lab
1:25 – 2:00PM
Speakers: Heather Southwick, MSPT, Sarah Collins, LAT, ATC, CPT