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The North Carolina Athletic Trainers' Association named T. Ryan Draper, DO, as Sports Medicine Person of the Year, reports Guilford.edu.

Pardee Hospital launched Pardee Sports Medicine, an athletic training program covering high schools and middle schools, as well as area events.

David Murphy, MD, performed foot surgery on Davis Love III, and the golf champion will be sidelined for the next two months, according to GolfChannel.com.

Yet another MLB player will be undergoing Tommy John surgery to repair ligament damage in the elbow, but this time, a catcher instead of a pitcher.

Martin J. O'Malley, MD, performed a successful bone graft surgery for the fifth metatarsal of the right foot of Oklahoma City Thunder starting forward Kevin Durant.

Alexander Meininger, MD, of Steamboat Orthopaedic Associates, has begun recruiting patients for a Phase III FDA interventional study titled "Safety and Effectiveness Study to Evaluate NOVOCART 3D Compared to Microfracture to Treat Articular Cartilage Defects of the Knee."

The Supreme Court will not hear Coons vs. Lew, a challenge to the Independent Payment Advisory Board, in which businessman Nick Coons and orthopedic surgeon Eric Novack, MD, are named plaintiffs, according to an IJ Review report.

According to The Aspen Times,the Aspen Sports Summit included lectures and notes from CEOs and physicians on issues in health, fitness and sports medicine. Here are six key notes from Kevin LaFierriere, CEO of Fitness Professionals:

Rick Cunningham, MD, a knee and shoulder sports medicine specialist with Vail-Summit Orthopaedics, physician for the US Ski Team and chief of surgery at Vail Valley Medical Center, provided ways to treat common tennis injuries with Summit Daily. Here are…

Florida Panthers' Nick Bjugstad had spine surgery at the Mayo Sports Clinic in Minneapolis, according to a Sun-Sentinel report.