James P. Bradley, M.D., head team physician for the Pittsburgh Steelers since 1991, is the past president of National Football League (NFL) Physicians Society and serves on the NFL Injury and Safety Panel.
Dr. Bradley specializes in orthopaedic sports medicine and reconstructive surgery of the shoulder, elbow and knee. He sees patients at UPMC St. Margaret, UPMC Shadyside and the UPMC Center for Sports Medicine. As a former co-captain of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team and winner of the 1975 Dapper Dan College Football Award, it was natural that Dr. Bradley would specialize his medical career in sports. Following graduation from Penn State in 1975, he earned a medical degree at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He then completed general residency training at the University of Tennessee and orthopaedic surgery residency training at the University of Pittsburgh before completing sports medicine fellowship training at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles. At Kerlan-Jobe, Dr. Bradley cared for professional athletes, including the Los Angeles Rams, Dodgers, Lakers, Kings and Angels, as well as college and high school athletes.
Dr. Bradley’s professional memberships include the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, Arthroscopy Association of North America, Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society, Twentieth Century Orthopaedic Association and the Herodicus Society. He recently was named in America’s Top Doctors, a national guide that identifies the top physician specialists in the United States.
He has authored numerous textbook chapters on sports medicine and orthopaedic surgery, and is involved with the UPMC’s sports medicine fellowship training program as well as various sports injury research projects underway at UPMC Center for Sports Medicine’s Neuromuscular Research Laboratory .
In addition to his duties as the Steelers team physician, Dr. Bradley also serves as the team physician for the Los Angeles Dodgers when they play in Pittsburgh and as an orthopaedic consultant to several local high school and college athletic teams.
UPMC Sports Medicine is the sports medicine provider for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The team’s practice and training facilities are located at the UPMC Sports Performance Complex on Pittsburgh’s South Side.
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