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Penn Medicine Named Medical Provider for Drexel University Athletics
1/7/2021 10:02:00 AM | Drexel Athletics
PHILADELPHIA— Penn Medicine is the new official orthopaedic provider for Drexel University Athletics, providing care for the Drexel Dragons. Effective immediately, this partnership ensures that Drexel athletes will receive the highest-level care for any injuries or orthopaedic needs they have on and off the field, court, or mat.
"Drexel Athletics is home to some of the country's elite athletes who need top-level care to stay at the height of their games," said Brian Sennett, MD, the chief of Penn Sports Medicine within Penn Orthopaedics. "For that reason, we're excited to enter into this partnership with our next-door neighbors. Though the Dragons may sometimes be our rivals between the lines, we're glad that we'll be playing a role in keeping their athletes healthy and keeping these games, matches, and meets exciting."
Drexel's athletic training teams will continue to provide game-day support to its athletes at its athletic headquarters, the Daskalakis Athletic Center (DAC), and elsewhere. However, more serious and longer-term medical care will be provided through Penn Orthopaedics. This could range from physical therapy to full surgical procedures.
"I am thrilled by our new partnership with Penn Orthopedics, a world-class medical provider for orthopedic surgery and services that are only a few blocks from the DAC," said Drexel University Director of Athletics Eric Zillmer, PhD. "This partnership was made with our student-athletes' well-being at the forefront. On a personal level, Dr. Brian Sennett, chief of Sports Medicine at Penn, is a good friend of Drexel who we can entrust with the care of all our student-athletes."
Penn Orthopaedics will be at the lead of care for Drexel's 18 different teams and 490 athletes. The partnership will last for at least the next two years.
"Any time we enter into a partnership like this, it sends a wave of excitement through our doctors and staff," said L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, FAOA, the chair of Orthopaedic Medicine at Penn Medicine. "But to open our practices to even more top-rank Philadelphia athletes, on the heels of our partnership with the Philadelphia Flyers earlier this year, strikes an extra sense of pride in me for our program."
Drexel Athletics will continue to partner with the team of physicians from the Drexel College of Medicine and the Tower Health Sports Medicine Fellowship Program, under the leadership of Alicia Tucker, M.D., to provide comprehensive sports medicine services to all of the Dragons' 18 varsity teams.
"Drexel Athletics is home to some of the country's elite athletes who need top-level care to stay at the height of their games," said Brian Sennett, MD, the chief of Penn Sports Medicine within Penn Orthopaedics. "For that reason, we're excited to enter into this partnership with our next-door neighbors. Though the Dragons may sometimes be our rivals between the lines, we're glad that we'll be playing a role in keeping their athletes healthy and keeping these games, matches, and meets exciting."
Drexel's athletic training teams will continue to provide game-day support to its athletes at its athletic headquarters, the Daskalakis Athletic Center (DAC), and elsewhere. However, more serious and longer-term medical care will be provided through Penn Orthopaedics. This could range from physical therapy to full surgical procedures.
"I am thrilled by our new partnership with Penn Orthopedics, a world-class medical provider for orthopedic surgery and services that are only a few blocks from the DAC," said Drexel University Director of Athletics Eric Zillmer, PhD. "This partnership was made with our student-athletes' well-being at the forefront. On a personal level, Dr. Brian Sennett, chief of Sports Medicine at Penn, is a good friend of Drexel who we can entrust with the care of all our student-athletes."
Penn Orthopaedics will be at the lead of care for Drexel's 18 different teams and 490 athletes. The partnership will last for at least the next two years.
"Any time we enter into a partnership like this, it sends a wave of excitement through our doctors and staff," said L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, FAOA, the chair of Orthopaedic Medicine at Penn Medicine. "But to open our practices to even more top-rank Philadelphia athletes, on the heels of our partnership with the Philadelphia Flyers earlier this year, strikes an extra sense of pride in me for our program."
Drexel Athletics will continue to partner with the team of physicians from the Drexel College of Medicine and the Tower Health Sports Medicine Fellowship Program, under the leadership of Alicia Tucker, M.D., to provide comprehensive sports medicine services to all of the Dragons' 18 varsity teams.
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