UTSW doctor volunteers to Tokyo Olympics: newsroom

DALLAS РAugust 8, 2021 РDr St̩phanie Tow, MD, director of Adaptive Sports Medicine Program at UT Southwestern who is a team doctor and medical director for several adaptive / para sporting organizations and events in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, completed her first week of volunteer caregiving at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Dr. Stephanie Tow, MD, assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at UT Southwestern, is among those providing volunteer care at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, is the team’s chief medical officer and national medical classifier for the United States National Paralympic Swimming Team. Credit: Dr Steven Isono

Dr. Tow, the team’s chief medical officer and national medical classifier for the U.S. National Paralympic Swimming Team, is a two-week volunteer physician responsible for providing general medical support in the Olympic Athletes’ Village and Hotel D Designated isolation for all participants who test positive for COVID-19 and are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Dr Tow is one of 16 foreign doctors to hold this post, along with many other Japanese doctors.

“A lot of sports physicians are striving to work in the Olympics at some point in their careers, so it’s an honor to be in demand and to be able to go so early in my career,” said Dr Tow, assistant professor of Physical medicine and rehabilitation, ranked n ° 17 in the country by American News and World Report and part of UT Southwestern Brain Institute Peter O’Donnell Jr.. “It is such a privilege to be able to work with international leaders on this side of sports medicine.”

Dr Tow has strictly followed the Olympics’ COVID-19 protocol, which includes testing for COVID-19 every day at work to keep himself and others safe. She spent her first week caring for Olympic athletes and delegation staff around the world in the Athletes’ Village and the COVID-19 isolation hotel.

“I am confident with what is in place to control the spread of the COVID-19 infection. With the protocols in place, we have been very effective in keeping the number of COVID-19 infections low and essentially creating an Olympic bubble to protect everyone from COVID-19 as best we can, ”added Dr. Tow.

Dr Tow has extensive experience covering sports medicine events, including serving as medical director for the World Para-swimming Series in Lewisville in 2021 and as a volunteer physician with numerous youth sports teams, high school , universities and professionals. events during his career.

Dr Tow, also a member of the Southwestern UT Pediatric Group who sees pediatric patients at Center specializing in children’s healthâ„  Cityville in Dallas and Scottish Rite for Children Sports Medicine in Frisco, is one of only four physicians in the United States to have completed dual training in the subspecialties of pediatric rehabilitation medicine and sports medicine. She completed her Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship at the University of Colorado / Children’s Hospital Colorado, her Sports Medicine Fellowship at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and is now certified by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in sports medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Dr Tow received her undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University, after which she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Hong Kong from 2008 to 2009. She received her medical degree from the University of Medicine and New Jersey dentistry (now Rutgers University). – New Jersey Medical School and completed residency and chief residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at UT Southwestern in 2016 and 2017 before joining the faculty of physical medicine and rehabilitation at UT Southwestern in 2020.

Dr. Stephanie Tow, MD, Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Dr Tow is a member of several national, institutional and departmental committees and has assumed leadership roles for several of them, most notably as elected chair of the Adaptive Sports and Recreation Committee of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. . She has given dozens of lectures and presentations and is involved in several research projects related to her clinical interests in adaptive / para sports medicine, concussion, pediatric sports medicine, pediatric rehabilitation medicine and medical education. Among many other honors, she was recognized as having a leading original research abstract at the 2019 American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Annual Meeting in San Antonio.

“It has been inspiring to finally be able to bring the world together and show many of our athletes in the Olympic and Paralympic movements,” said Dr Tow, who grew up playing multiple sports, including being a competitive swimmer who has done so. helped lead it. high school team in the New Jersey State Championship its final year. She has also been on the Johns Hopkins University Ultimate Frisbee Women’s Team, has competed in multiple triathlons, and enjoys skiing, cycling, yoga, traveling, cooking, camping, and hiking.

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