Athletic Training and Physical Therapy Sports Medicine Workshop (March 6, 2026)

Overview

Join leading experts in sports medicine as they share the latest insights on injury evaluation, treatment, and prevention. 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 Micheli Center in Waltham, 9 Hope Avenue, Waltham, MA 02453.

Learning Objectives: 

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

1. Demonstrate and identify common running injuries, and corrective gait retraining exercises.
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.

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 has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 6.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

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.

 

	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
	Kerri Regan, DPT Physical Therapist, Sports Medicine Division
	Michael O’Brien, MD Attending Physician, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department; Director, Sports Concussion Clinic
	Matthew Rauseo, MS, CSCS, Pn1, USAW1

 

   

Friday, March 6, 2025
Check-In (Breakfast and Coffee)   7:30 – 8:00AM
Workshop Session 1 8:00 – 8:45AM Workshop: Running Injuries: Evaluation, Gait Analysis, and Gait Retraining Lab Speakers: Kristin Whitney, MD, MA, Corey Dawkins, MS, ATC, LAT, to demonstrate corrective gait retraining exercise in the lab.
SI Joint and Hip Conditions: Evaluation and Rehab Lab 8:45 – 9:30 AM Speakers: Andrea Stracciolini, MD, FACSM, FAAP, Heather Southwick, MSPT, to review rehab process with the hip.
ACL: Evaluation, Prevention, Return to Play, with Lab 9:30 – 10:15AM Speakers: Benton Heyworth, MD, Genna Patacchiola, DPT, to review rehab process with the knee.
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, Matthew Rauseo, MS, CSCS, Pn1, USAW1 Research Technologist, to review rehab process with the hand and upper body.
Tension, Training, and Learning Workshop: A Unique Approach to Individualized Performance Programs Using an Interdisciplinary   Perspective 11:00 – 11:45AM Speakers: Eric Menchi, MS, CSCS, PRT, PN1, Hunter Hatton, MSAT
Transition to WAL Deveber room 11:45AM – 12.00PM
Lunch: Keynote Speaker- Latest Research on the ACL 12:00 – 12:30PM Dai Sugimoto, PhD, ATC, CSCS
Walk back to TMC 12:30 – 12:35PM
Back Injuries: Evaluation and Rehab Lab 12:35 – 1:20PM Speakers: William Meehan, MD, Carl Gustafson, PT, LAT, ATC, CSCS
Workshop Session 2 1:20 – 2:05PM Workshop: 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, to review rehab process for concussions.
Foot and Ankle: Evaluation with Rehab Lab 2:05 – 2:50PM Speakers: Heather Southwick, MSPT
Closing Remarks  2:50 – 3:00PM

Disclosures

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 CME 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.

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: 

Name, Degree	Entity Name, or None

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