December 7, 2006

Stephen Adams, MD and Eric Quandt, JD Course Directors

The Bethesda Conference
Eligibility Issues

Sudden Death

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Commotio Cordis

Barry Maron, MD

Cardiac Issues in Sports (continued):

Heart Rhythm Disturbances and Performance Enhancing Drugs
AEDs/AIDs
Mark Estes III, MD

Matt Mitten, JD

Moderator: Dr. Stephen Adams
Matt Mitten, JD, Barry Maron, MD, Mark Estes III, MD, and Mark Upton, MD

Gary Green, MD

Robert Nickell, RPh

Mark O’Neal, ATC and Rochel Rittgers, ATC

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Stephen Adams, MD

Gary Green MD, Robert Nickell, RPh, Matt Mitten, JD, Rochel Rittgers, ATC, Mark O’Neal, ATC, Ed Ryan, ATC, and David Klossner, PhD, ATC

December 8, 2006

Concussion
Elliott Pellman, MD

Injuries, Liabilities, Reporting, Responsibility
Brenda Shields, MS

Gordon Nuber, MD

Mark Bowen, MD

Michael Schafer, MD

Moderator: Stephen Adams, MD

Elliot Pellman, MD, Michael Schafer, MD, Gordon Nuber, MD, Mark Bowen, MD, Robert Bonow, MD and Brenda Shields, MS

Karen Morrison JD, Noreen Morris, MS and John Black, JD

Eric Quandt, JD

Professional:                 Adolpho Birch
Intercollegiate/NCAA:  Mark Murphy, JD, David Klossner, PhD, ATC
High School:                  John Black, JD
USOC:                           John Ruger, Ed Ryan, ATC
Athlete:                           Peter Rush, JD Robert Lattinville, JD

Moderators: Stephen Adams, MD and Matt Mitten, JD,

Mark Murphy, JD, David Klossner, PhD, ATC, John Black, JD, John Ruger, Ed Ryan, ATC, Peter Rush, JD, Robert Lattinville, JD, Eric Quandt, JD, Robb Jones, JD, Brian Anderson, ATC, Rochel Rittgers, ATC and Mark O’Neal, ATC

Laurel Fleming, JD

Walter Jones, Jr., JD

Rick Sevcik, JD and Robert Connors, JD

Prior to joining the NFL, Mr. Birch was in private practice in Houston, Texas, initially with Fulbright & Jaworski’s Antitrust/Complex Litigation group and later with a boutique firm specializing in labor, insurance defense and municipal finance. Preceding his firm affiliations, he served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr., Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.

Mr. Birch attended Vanderbilt University Law School as a Patricia Roberts Harris Scholar, serving on the Editorial Board of the Vanderbilt Law Review and earning his juris doctorate in 1991. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard University, where he graduated with honors in Government and was a member of the junior varsity lacrosse and basketball teams, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and several student organizations.

On a personal note, Mr. Birch was raised in Nashville and is actively involved in a
number of professional and philanthropic organizations.

Mr. Black earned his bachelor’s degree from Colorado College and his law degree from Duke University. He is admitted to practice law in various state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

He has served as President of The Missouri Bar, and as a member of the House of Delegates of The American Bar Association. At the request of Governor Mel Carnahan, he served on a “Blue-Ribbon Commission” to rework the Judicial Article of the Missouri State Constitution.

Mr. Black just completed two terms as President of the Missouri Bar Foundation and is currently President of the Missouri Press-Bar Commission. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Missouri Supreme Court Historical Society. On behalf of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, he has chaired the Education Law Committee and the Sports Law Committee.

Mr. Black organizes and chairs an annual seminar for state high school association lawyers. He regularly serves as a speaker and panelist at legal conferences and law school seminars.

Dr. Bowen graduated from Cornell University Medical College and completed his residency at The Hospital for Special Surgery. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine and Shoulder Reconstruction also at The Hospital for Special Surgery, during which time he was given the Philip D. Wilson Award for Outstanding Research.

He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and has received the James K. Stack Teaching Award in recognition of his academic and research activities. Dr. Bowen is a Team Physician for the Chicago Bears. He has also acted as team physician to the Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Cubs, New York Giants, and the Big Ten Conference.

Dr. Bowen is the author of numerous publications on the topics of knee, shoulder, and elbow repair, and is a frequent instructor for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Board of Medical Examiners.

He had been named by Woodward/White as one of the Best Doctors in America.

Laurel is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association, and the Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys. As a young lawyer, Laurel was active in the Chicago Bar Association, serving as Co-Chair of the Health and Hospital Law Committee of the Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association. She also served as a director of Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home for several years. Laurel has presented and authored numerous articles on various health care issues, including co-editing the Managed Care Answer Book: Forms and Checklists and the State by State Guide to Managed Care Law. After receiving her B.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Laurel earned her law degree from the University of Chicago in 1988.

From 1994-97 Jones was director of the Judicial Education Division of the Federal Judicial Center, where he developed and managed training and continuing legal education programs for federal judges. From 1991-94 he served as chief of staff to Chief Justice William Rehnquist at the U.S. Supreme Court. Before that time he was a litigation partner in the Washington office of Nixon Hargrave Devans & Doyle (now Nixon Peabody), where he concentrated on education, employment, and media litigation.

Jones received his undergraduate degree from Grove City College and graduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia.

Prior to joining the NCAA, David held positions of assistant professor of kinesiology at DePauw University and the University of South Florida, with administrative duties as program director for athletic training education. He graduated with a bachelor of science and a master of science in kinesiology from Indiana University, Bloomington prior to completing his doctorate in philosophy from Ohio University

She is a member of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics; National Association of Collegiate Women’s Athletics Administrators; Women’s Sports Foundation; and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.

After receiving his law degree from Georgetown, Murphy was a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a radio commentator for NPR for 10 years, analyzing football games and commenting on other sports issues.

Some of Mr. Nickell’s accomplishments over the past 10 years include:

• Recipient of the 2006 Far West Athletic Trainers Association “Service Award”.
• Named California Pharmacist of the Year (2000), and California Innovative Pharmacist of the Year (2005).
• Selected as the first pharmacist to represent the United States Olympics as the team pharmacist for the summer games in Athens 2004.
• The first pharmacist to hold honorary membership in the National Athletic Trainers Association.
• President of the California Pharmacist Association (1996).

Dr. Nuber graduated from the Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed his residency at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Additionally, he completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at the National Athletic Health Institute in California.

He is a Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at Northwestern and has received the James K. Stack Teaching Award in recognition of his academic and research activities. He serves as an examiner for the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons Dr. Nuber is a Team Physician for the Chicago Bears. He has also acted as team physician to the Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Cubs, and Big Ten Conference and has been a consultant to Bally’s Corporation.

Dr. Nuber has authored over 85 publications on the topics related to the sports injuries of the shoulder, knee and elbow, and acts as a reviewer for the American Journal of Sports Medicine and the Journal of the Shoulder and Elbow. He had been named by Woodward/White, the Castle Connelly Guide, AOL.com, and Chicago Magazine as one of America’s leading physicians.

Over the last 25 years, Dr. Schafer has made significant contributions to sports medicine both as a physician and as a policy advocate. His accomplishments include serving as Orthopaedic Consultant for the Chicago Cubs since 1980, team physician for the Chicago Bears from 1990 to 2001, and serving on the Major League Baseball Medical Advisory Committee since 2004. He sits on several committees and advisory boards and serves as a board member or peer reviewer for journals such as Spine and the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

He received his Bachelor of Arts with highest distinction from the University of Iowa, with honors in both political science and economics, and his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School.