Kate Temme, MD is the medical director at Penn Center for the Female Athlete, and she is the associate program director for the Primary Care Sports Medicine fellowship at the Perelman School of Medicine at Penn.
Dr. Temme attended Cornell University (Nutritional Sciences, Human Development) and she trained medically at the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. She participated in residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University based at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago, IL. She participated in Sports Medicine subspecialty training at the Medical College of Wisconsin based in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in Milwaukee, WI. She has been on faculty in Penn PM&R since 2012 as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and she holds a secondary appointment within Penn’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. She serves as the team physician for several undergraduate varsity sports at the University of Pennsylvania including women’s basketball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and women’s gymnastics. She recently became the head physician for the Women’s Ivy League Basketball tournament sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. She sits on Penn’s Task Force for Varsity Athletics encompassing coaches, athletic trainers, and physicians who are based at Penn. She also is the team physician for the Philadelphia Freedoms professional tennis team.
The Penn Center for the Female Athlete is based in Penn’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Located on the Penn campus in Weightman Hall adjacent to Franklin Field as well as at the Pennsylvania Hospital and Penn Medicine at Radnor, it is uniquely focused on treating women of all ages and activity levels, addressing those conditions that are highly prevalent among female athletes including knee disorders such as anterior cruciate ligament tears and patellofemoral syndrome, and stress fractures related to osteoporosis and the female athlete triad. Moreover, a program focusing the pregnant female athlete is instrumental among the center’s activities. This center encompasses an interdisciplinary team of medical and non-medical specialists including physiatrists, orthopaedic surgeons, gynecologists, endocrinologists, physical and occupational therapists, and dieticians.
The Primary Care Sports Medicine fellowship at Penn is based in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.Penn PM&R, Penn Orthopaedics, and Childrens’ Hospital of Philadelphia are key collaborators involved in the training of two fellows during this one-year clinical subspecialty training program. Among the recent graduates of the residency training in Penn PM&R and of this sports medicine fellowship is Dr. Alexis Tingan who is a key sports medicine-certified faculty member for training the sports medicine fellows. Dr. Tingan currently serves as the team physician for the men’s and women’s varsity cross country and track and field teams at Penn, and he is the medical director for The Penn Relays, as well as the Philadelphia Love Run Half Marathon. Dr. John Vasudevan who participated in subspecialty sports medicine training at Stanford University is another key sports medicine-certified PM&R faculty member who trains the sports medicine fellows. Dr. Vasudevan serves as the team physician for men’s sprint football at Penn, and he currently is the medical director of the Philadelphia Escape Triathlon, as well as the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half-Marathon. Finally, Dr. Jason Pan who joined the Penn PM&R faculty this year after recent completion his sports medicine fellowship at the Geisinger Health System will also participate in the training of sports medicine fellows at Penn.