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For Immediate Release
For More Information/GAPA Speaker´s Bureau
Carmel Hearn, O'Neill Communications
carmel@oneillcommunications.com
770.578.9765
GEORGIA-BASED PA STUDENT SERVING AS
ATHLETIC TRAINER FOR THE 2008 SUMMER OLYMPICS
Atlanta, Ga.– A love for athletics led Harris A. Patel to a career in serving as an athletic trainer for a variety of sports teams throughout his 12–year career. But who knew that the trainer, currently studying to be a physician assistant, would find his career taking him all the way from Athens, Georgia to China?
Patel, PA–S. ATC is serving as the only Georgia medical professional representative at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. A PA student at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., and active in the Georgia Association of Physician Assistants (GAPA) as a student representative, Patel was selected to be part of the Olympic medical staff due to more than a decade of providing sports medicine and training to college and professional athletes.
With support from GAPA and his fellow physician assistants, Patel is acting as a medical liaison in Beijing for five weeks specializing in athletic training. "I am working with the United States Olympic Committee medical staff to take care of all the athletes in a general medical office area facilities," said Patel. "We prevent, treat and evaluate sport injuries for the elite athletes."
Patel´s path to the Olympics began in 1996 when he provided care for the University of Georgia Athletic Association in the sports medicine/athletic training department. From there he expanded his health care experience through involvement with the University of Alabama, NFL´s Indiana Colts, the New York Jets, the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as well as many other major sporting events.
He chose to become a PA because he wanted more out of medicine. "I want to help others and have the ability to broaden my skills set with more medical privileges, " he explained. "I also love the flexibility of the PA profession to move from one field to another field, and the MD–PA model of working as a team."
With a long and successful history in athletic training and care, Patel will represent GAPA and Georgia proudly at the Olympics and will continue working "in the field of primary care and sports medicine."
While in Beijing, Harris Patel is available to speak about his unique experience as Georgia´s only medical representative at the 2008 Olympics, as well as once he returns home. For more information, please contact:
Carmel Hearn
678-384-7833 or Toll free 1-877-610-9013
carmel@oneillcommunications.com
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*See video from TV Station Channel CBS 46 about Harris
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