Sports Medicine

Registration Information

Cohort Series | Offered Bi-Annually | 3-sessions | Thursdays | 12-1 PM Pacific Time

The Sports Medicine ECHO focuses on common topics for athletic trainers, coaches, and athletic directors. Each session features a didactic presentation on a variety of topics, such as injuries/rehab, emergency action planning, or training plans. In addition, sessions provide a forum to discuss challenging patient cases with colleagues and experts.

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Our Team

  • Mark D’Anza, MEd, LAT, ATC. Mark D’Anza is currently a teacher and an athletic trainer in Las Vegas, NV. He graduated from San Diego State University with a B.S. in Kinesiology, with an emphasis in Athletic Training in 2005. Mark teaches Anatomy & Physiology and AP Biology at Durango High School, where he has worked since 2008. Mark is an adjunct lecturer in the Kinesiology Department and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches Emergency Management of Illness and Trauma. He is an athletic trainer for Select Physical Therapy, working at various events and schools in Las Vegas. 
  • Kara Radzak, PhD, ATC. Dr. Radzak integrates clinical, biomechanical, and practice-based research methods to evaluate the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries in military members. In addition, her biomechanical research evaluates the influence of fatigued state movement on musculoskeletal injury risk, particularly overuse injuries of the knee and osteoarthritis. Radzak earned her bachelor’s in kinesiology-athletic training from the University of Texas at Austin, her master’s in sports medicine from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and her Ph.D. in education-kinesiology from the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
  • Carol Scott, M.D. Dr. Scott is the former Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship at the School of Medicine, Team Physician, and Current Assistant Director for the Student Health Center at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Scott is Board Certified in Family Medicine, Sports Medicine and Adolescent Medicine. She has worked with student-athletes in Nevada since 1994. Dr. Scott grew up in Winnemucca and is always excited to bring her expertise in Sports Medicine to Project ECHO!

Continuing Medical Education (CME) Accreditation

The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine approves this program for 1.0 hour of nursing continuing education credit. Nevada State Board of Nursing provider number 120894-1.

The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine is a provider of continuing education credit through the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy.  This program is approved for 1 hours of continuing education credit for pharmacists.

Project ECHO Nevada (BOC AP#: P12162) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers (ATs). This program is eligible for a maximum of (3) Category A hours/CEUs. ATs should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program.

Presenter Disclosures

As an accredited provider of continuing medical education through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its educational activities. In order to assure that information is presented in a scientific and objective manner, The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine requires that anyone in a position to control or influence the content of an accredited activity disclose all financial relationships within the prior 24 months with any commercial or proprietary entity producing health care goods or services relevant to the content being planned or presented. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. Following are those disclosures.

All presenters, planners or anyone in a position to control the content of this continuing medical education activity have indicated that neither they nor their spouse/legally recognized domestic partner has any financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this activity.