Three new sports medicine fellows started their year of training at University Medical Center in Tuscaloosa and will care for University of Alabama athletes and patients at UMC’s Dr. Bill deShazo Sports Medicine Center.
The new fellows, who began the Sports Medicine Fellowship for Family Medicine Physicians July 1, are Drs. Dana Hutton, Leroy Jemison and Joseph Snooks. The fellowship is operated by the UA’s College of Community Health Sciences, which also operates UMC.
The sports medicine fellowship provides education and training in sports medicine to family medicine physicians. In addition to UMC patients and UA athletes, fellows will also provide sports medicine coverage at local high school and community sporting events.
Hutton received her medical degree from the University of Pikeville-Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pikeville, Ky., and completed her residency in family medicine at North Mississippi Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program in Tupelo, Miss.
Jemison received his medical degree from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla., and completed his residency in internal medicine from the Memorial Healthcare System Internal Medicine Residency Program in Hollywood, Fla.
Snooks received his medical degree from the Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Ga., and completed his residency in internal medicine-pediatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville at Prisma Health in Greenville, S.C.
The sports medicine fellowship was created in 2010 by Dr. James Robinson, a family and sports medicine physician with UMC and professor with CCHS. Robinson, who retired in 2022, also held the College’s Endowed Chair in Sports Medicine.
The fellowship is under the direction of Dr. Ray Stewart, the College’s first sports medicine fellow who graduated from the fellowship in 2010. The College’s other sports medicine physicians are Drs. Brett Bentley, Russ Guin and Ginger Medders.