Franciscan Health Doctor Named Purdue Athletics Head Team Physician
Carly-Day
Dr. Carly Day, a member of Franciscan Physician Network, has been appointed Head Team Physician of Purdue University athletics and can oversee all points of medical care for greater than 500 student-athletes.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana , Dec. 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Purdue University’s athletic squads have a brand new staff member to help in offering every student-athlete a state-of-the-art system of medical care.
Carly Day, MD, a member of Franciscan Physician Network, has been appointed Head Team Physician of Purdue. In that position, she is going to oversee all points of medical care for greater than 500 student-athletes on the Big Ten Conference college.
Dr. Day will present protection for all 18 Purdue intercollegiate athletics programs: soccer, males’s and ladies’s basketball, baseball, males’s and ladies’s golf, girls’s soccer, softball, males’s and ladies’s swimming & diving, males’s and ladies’s tennis, males’s and ladies’s observe & discipline/cross nation, girls’s volleyball and wrestling, in addition to the spirit squad.
“Purdue University has a storied history in sports and continues to promote excellence both on the playing field and in academics,” stated Terry Wilson, president and CEO for Franciscan Health Western Indiana. “We’re honored that Dr. Day will lead a team of clinicians who will provide stellar care to these young athletes. Our commitment is to provide Purdue with a full-time primary care sports medicine physician who will function as the head team physician and be assigned exclusively to Purdue Athletics Department.”
Dr. Day, who formally takes on her position Dec. 17, 2018, will oversee the availability of medical care to student-athletes on campus, together with the referral of sufferers to healthcare amenities, specialists and diagnostic companies, equivalent to imaging and laboratory companies. Additionally, she is going to present medical supervision for the Purdue athletic trainers and bodily therapists. Dr. Day could have an workplace and examination rooms at Mackey Arena and can preserve a student-athlete clinic Monday by Friday.
“Dr. Day is a perfect fit for our sports medicine model,” Purdue vp and director of intercollegiate athletics Mike Bobinski stated. “She is a professional with high integrity, has a history of demonstrating genuine interest in the care of student-athletes and is experienced in working with high-level athletes. We are excited to welcome Carly and her family to Purdue Athletics and the community. Furthermore, this appointment strengthens our relationship with Franciscan Health, and we appreciate their continued support of Purdue Athletics.”
A local of Cleveland, Dr. Day most beforehand served as the top major care doctor at Notre Dame College in South Euclid, Ohio. She additionally held a tutorial appointment of Clinical Associate Professor on the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. She at the moment is a staff doctor for the United States U-20 girls’s nationwide soccer staff.
Dr. Day acquired an undergraduate diploma in Zoology (summa cum laude with honors) at Miami University in Ohio and earned her medical diploma from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, the place she accomplished a residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She later accomplished a fellowship in sports activities medication on the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
During her skilled and tutorial profession, Dr. Day has acquired quite a few honors and accolades. In 2017, she was listed amongst “Top Doctors” by Cleveland Magazine. She’s a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, American College of Sports Medicine, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and Cleveland Clinic Women’s Professional Staff Association.
Contact: Lisa Decker Vice President of Marketing and Communications Franciscan Health 765-502-4688 (workplace) 765-404-9782 (cell) Lisa.Decker@franciscanalliance.org Tom Schott Senior Associate Athletics Director – Communications Purdue University 765-494-3145 tschott@purdue.edu Joe Stuteville Media Relations Manager 317-528-7986 (workplace) 317-946-9930 (cell) Joe.Stuteville@franciscanalliance.org
