South African Sports Medicine Leader Serves as AMSSM International Visiting Fellow

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Newswise Hollywood, Fla. As part of the 2015 AMSSM Traveling Fellowship program, the President of the South African Sports Medicine Association Jon Patricios, MBBCh, FFSEM, is serving as this years International Visiting Fellow.

Dr. Patricios will be presenting two lectures during this weeks 24th AMSSM Annual Meeting in Hollywood, Fla., followed by visits to sports medicine clinics and facilities in Greensboro, N.C., Atlanta, Ga., and Greenville, S.C.

The purpose of the AMSSM Traveling Fellowship program is to encourage academic interchange, shared research and exploration of common clinical interests among sports medicine leaders throughout the world. The experience includes the opportunity to view live patient encounters, tour sports medicine facilities, share cases and spend time with regional experts in sports medicine.

The second phase of the 2015 Fellowship will be a return visit to South Africa from three U.S. Traveling Fellows. The Traveling Fellowship tour culminates with participation in the SASMA Annual Meeting Oct. 19-22, 2015.

I view the AMSSM Travel Fellowship as a wonderful opportunity to "lecture, learn and live". To lecture" at what I regard as the foremost clinical sports medicine meeting in the world, to learn from a knowledgeable cohort of colleagues and to live a bit of the American lifestyle, said Dr. Patricios. I am looking forward to presenting and sharing cases and experiences, interacting with friends and colleagues and making new acquaintances. Equally, I look forward to hosting the AMSSM fellows in South Africa later this year and thank AMSSM and their sponsors for their commitment to continuing sport medicine education.

Dr. Patricios will present lectures during the AMSSM meeting on Diagnostic Algorithm for Groin Pain and Rugby Rules! Return to Play the South African Way.

Dr. Patricios is a sports physician at the Centre for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics and Director of the Morningside Sports Medicine Unit in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Patricios has been a team physician to school, club, provincial and international sports teams in rugby, cricket, soccer, athletics and basketball. He is a member of the Cricket South Africa and SA Rugby medical committees and the Rockies Comrades Marathon Panel of experts. He is Chief Medical Officer for the MTN Qhubeka Cycling team and the Kaizer Chiefs Football Club, Founder and Director of Sports Concussion South Africa and serves on tribunals for the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport.

This program was made possible by the generous support the AMSSM Foundation received from DJO Global. AMSSM wishes to thank DJO Global for its educational support of this exchange of ideas and knowledge by world leaders in sports medicine.

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