The College of Community Health Sciences welcomed three new fellows to its Sports Medicine Fellowship for Family Medicine Physicians – Drs. Dana Hutton, Leroy Jemison and Joseph Snooks. They began their fellowships in July.
The sports medicine fellowship provides education and training in sports medicine to family medicine physicians. Fellows care for patients at the Dr. Bill deShazo Sports Medicine Center at University Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, which the College operates. Fellows also care for University of Alabama athletes and provide sports medicine coverage at UA and local high school and community sporting events.
Hutton received her medical degree from the University of Pikeville-Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pikeville, Ky., and completed her residency in family medicine at North Mississippi Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program in Tupelo, Miss.
Jemison received his medical degree from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla., and completed his residency in internal medicine from the Memorial Healthcare System Internal Medicine Residency Program in Hollywood, Fla.
Snooks received his medical degree from the Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Ga., and completed his residency in internal medicine-pediatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville at Prisma Health in Greenville, S.C.
The fellowship was created in 2010 by Dr. James Robinson, a family and sports medicine physician with UMC and professor with CCHS. Robinson, who retired in 2022, also held the College’s Endowed Chair in Sports Medicine.
The fellowship is under the direction of Dr. Ray Stewart, the College’s first sports medicine fellow who graduated from the fellowship in 2010. The College’s other sports medicine physicians are Drs. Brett Bentley, Russ Guin and Ginger Medders.