Dr Jonathan Drezner, BJSM Senior Associate Editor (Sports Cardiology) is the team physician for Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League.

Speaking in the week after his team’s first Super Bowl appearance, he shares thoughts with Karim Khan about a typical week at the Seahawks, the season’s climax in New Jersey, and what budding sports medicine clinicians might do if aspiring to work in the top levels of professional sport.

Off the playing field, Professor Drezner served as President of AMSSM in 2012, contributes to the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle and heads the Sports Cardiology Centre.

To find more related to sports cardiology (not the subject of this podcast), please go to this BMJ Learning site – over 10,000 educational modules have been completed. http://tinyurl.com/o5jcc5v

See also:

Peter Brukner on – Lessons from 30 years as a team physician http://bjsm.bmj.com/articleusage?rid=47/10/610


The use of local anaesthetic injections in professional football: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/35/4/212.full

Super Bowl: Two ACL tears and the landmark paper still under review: http://blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2012/02/13/super-bowl-two-acl-tears-and-the-landmark-paper-still-under-review/