Since 2012, Penn PM&R has invested in the growth of its subspecialty clinical practice in sports medicine. Within Penn Medicine, the sports medicine treatment team encompasses up to twenty-one physicians who represent four academic departments.
Sports Medicine
Four Penn PM&R physiatrists practice within Penn Sports Medicine. Dr. John Vasudevan and Dr. Kate Temme were recruited to join Penn PM&R in 2012, and Dr. Alexis Tingan and Dr. Jason Pan were recruited in 2016 and 2018, respectively.
John M. Vasudevan, MD is an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the academic clinician track, and he has a secondary appointment in Orthopaedic Surgery. His subspecialty training in sports medicine occurred at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. He is a team physician for Penn Athletics including sprint football, and he is the medical director of the Rock ‘n Roll Half Marathon, an annual fall event in Philadelphia. Dr. Vasudevan is active locally and nationally with advocacy work including being a member of the board of directors of the Philadelphia County Medical Society. He is also a member of Pennsylvania Medical Society’s Political Action Committee, as well as being one of their delegates to the American Medical Association. He is chair of the American Medical Association-Young Physician Section’s Innovation Committee. He represents Penn PM&R on Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine’s Wellness Committee. His major practice sites are Penn Medicine Radnor and the Penn Sports Medicine Center at Weightman Hall. He also performs electrodiagnostic studies at the Penn Medicine Radnor and at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Kate E. Temme, MD is an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the academic clinician track. She has a secondary appointment in Orthopaedic Surgery. Her physiatry training occurred at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University based at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago, IL, and her sports medicine subspecialty training occurred at the Medical College of Wisconsin based in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery in Milwaukee, WI. Dr. Temme is the director of the Penn Center for the Female Athlete, and she is the associate program director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine fellowship based in Penn’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. In close collaboration with Penn Health for Women, her outpatient practice sites include the Penn Sports Medicine Center at Weightman Hall, Penn Medicine Radnor, and the Pennsylvania Hospital. Dr. Temme provides medical coverage for Penn Athletics including women’s basketball, women’s and men’s swimming and diving, and women’s gymnastics. She is the head physician for the Women’s Ivy League Basketball tournament sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and she is a member of Penn’s Task Force for Varsity Athletics. She continues to be one of the team physicians for the Philadelphia Freedoms professional tennis team.
Alexis Tingan, MD is an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the academic clinician track. He has a secondary appointment in Orthopaedic Surgery. He completed his physiatry training at Penn PM&R, and his subspecialty training in sports medicine occurred at Penn Medicine. Dr. Tingan provides medical coverage for Penn’s varsity cross country, and track and field teams, and he is the medical director of the Penn Relays held annually in April at Franklin Field. He also is the medical director of the Philadelphia Love Run Half Marathon, an annual spring event in Philadelphia. He is a member of the USA Track and Field Sports Medicine and Science Committee. Moreover, Dr. Tingan is leading Penn PM&R’s Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion. His major outpatient practice sites include Penn Medicine University City and Penn Medicine Valley Forge.
Jason Pan, MD is an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the academic clinician track. He completed his physiatry training at Penn PM&R, and trained in sports medicine at the Geisinger Health System in Danville, PA. Dr. Pan is an assistant chief physician for the Penn Relays. Dr. Pan has launched and is managing Penn PM&R’s social media sites on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. His major outpatient practice site is Penn Medicine Cherry Hill.
The Penn PM&R sports medicine subspecialists participate as teaching faculty for the two subspecialty fellowship training programs offered and associated with the Penn Sports Medicine Center. A non-surgical fellowship is based in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health—the Primary Care Sports Medicine fellowship, and a surgical fellowship is based in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. The Primary Care Sports Medicine fellowship encompasses one-year of clinical training for two fellows with one of these positions designated to train a physiatrist. This fellowship includes participating as a team physician for Penn Athletics, as well as for the Philadelphia Flyers and the Philadelphia Eagles, and collaboration with pediatric sports medicine faculty who are based at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The Sports Medicine fellowship within Penn Orthopaedic Surgery recruits two surgeons yearly who participate in an intensive one year of outpatient and surgical training, and the Penn PM&R sports medicine physiatrists participate in their outpatient non-surgical training.
Given the depth of opportunities within the Penn Sports Medicine Center and a strong core of sports medicine faculty within Penn PM&R, it would be expected that several of our PM&R residents recently have pursued sports medicine subspecialty training including 2015 graduate Dr. Alexis Tingan and 2017 graduate Dr. Jason Pan, as highlighted above, Dr. Jessalyn Adam who is another 2017 graduate, Dr. Tiffany Tsay who graduated in 2016, and Dr. Ryan Roza who graduated in 2012. Among the most recent 2019 graduating resident trainees, Dr. Kenton Hagan recently completed the primary care sports medicine fellowship based at Penn Medicine, and Dr. Ann Hulme completed the sports medicine fellowship based within the Department of Family Medicine at MacNeal Hospital/Loyola Medicine/Trinity Health in Berwyn, IL.