Mei-Dan to lead international extreme sports medicine event
Omer Mei-Dan, M.D., orthopedics professor in the School of Medicine, is set to lead the Fifth International Extreme Sports Medicine Congress, organized and hosted by CU Sports Medicine.
The June 5-6 event in Park City, Utah, will bring together leaders in sports medicine – including physicians, PAs, PTs, ATCs and researchers – from across the globe.
“This event is unique in that it is the only conference globally dedicated specifically to adventure and extreme sports medicine, approached from a truly multidisciplinary perspective,” Mei-Dan said. “It is not limited to orthopedics, physiology or physical therapy alone, but instead brings together expertise across multiple specialties.”
The two-day program will explore topics on common injuries associated with extreme sports, personality and psychology of extreme sport athletes, cutting-edge research of endurance performance, endocrine stress reactivity, genetics in adventure athletes, surgical intervention and sports-associated trauma, prevention and rehab of the extreme sports athlete, near misses and fatalities, and environmental considerations.
Physicians, allied health care providers and anyone interested in treating the extreme sports athlete is invited to attend. In-person and virtual registrations options are available.
Mei-Dan serves as host of the conference, which he originally developed and established in 2014. A few years ago, he brought on the University of Utah’s Aaron Provance, M.D., as co-host.
“Our faculty includes leaders who run statewide avalanche programs, direct search and rescue operations, and serve as physicians for U.S. and international Olympic teams, both winter and summer sports,” Mei-Dan said. The conference also has strong representation from CU, with over a dozen faculty members across multiple subspecialties, including Jay Lemery, M.D., professor of emergency medicine, environmental medicine and a NASA consultant.