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Presenter:
Ron Courson, ATC, PT, NREMT-I, CSCS
Presentation Date: 02/29/2008
Brief Biography of
Speaker
Ron
Courson was named Director of Sports Medicine in May
of 1995, after serving four years as Director of
Rehabilitation at the University of Alabama. Prior
to joining the Alabama staff in 1991, he served as
an athletic trainer/physical therapist with Samford
University and Healthsouth Sports Medicine and
Rehabilitation Center in Birmingham, Alabama. He
received his undergraduate degree in
education/physical education from Samford
University, performed two years of graduate work at
the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, and
graduated with honors from the Medical College of
Georgia with a degree in physical therapy. A native
of Birmingham, Courson is additionally a national
registered emergency medical technician-intermediate
as well as a certified strength and conditioning
specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning
Association.
Courson has been
involved in many athletic training activities
including work as an athletic trainer with the U.S.
Olympic Team at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul,
South Korea; 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle; 1987
World University Games in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1987
Pan American Games in Indianapolis and the 1992
Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. He served as the
chief athletic trainer for the 1996 U.S. Olympic
Track and Field Trials as well as the chief athletic
trainer for track and field for the Atlanta
Committee for the 1996 Olympic Games (ACOG).
Ron is active in his
profession, having served as the president of the
Southeastern Conference Sports Medicine Committee
and currently is chairman of the College and
University Athletic Trainers' Committee of the
National Athletic Trainers' Association. Ron also
serves on the NCAA Competitive Safeguards and
Medical Aspects of Sports committee. He is the
liaison for the National Athletic Trainers
Association to the American Football Coaches
Association. During his tenure at Alabama, he served
as president of the Alabama Athletic Trainers
Association and as chairman of the Alabama Board of
Athletic Trainers. Ron received the Most
Distinguished Athletic Trainer award in 2005 from
the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.
Ron serves as an adjunct
instructor in the department of kinesiology at the
University of Georgia, teaching in the nationally
accredited athletic training education program. He
also serves as a clinical instructor teaching
student physical therapists from the Medical College
of Georgia and other physical therapy schools, both
regionally and nationally. He is active in research
and education in the field of sports medicine,
having authored a textbook, "Athletic Training
Emergency Care", a number of professional papers and
text chapters and presents frequently at regional
and national sports medicine meetings.
Ron
is married to the former Eileen O'Connell of
Waycross, Georgia. Eileen is a physical therapist
who attended the University of Georgia and the
Medical College of Georgia. Ron and Eileen have four
children, John, Anna, Luke, and Will.
Brief Description of
Presentation
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