UTRGV SOM Sports Medicine Fellowship

06/29/2023

Congratulations to our graduates Dr. Farhan and Dr. Wu! Good luck on your future endeavors!

01/15/2023

Our fellows (Dr. Farhan and Dr. Wu) and attending Dr. Perez had a great time helping to cover Houston Marathon working Finish Line Medical! Special shout out to our colleague Dr. Ben Ifedi for inviting us!

11/11/2022

Congratulations to our UTRGV Volleyball team who just became the WAC Conference Regular Season champions! Dr. Gonzales and Dr. Wu provided sideline coverage for the champs!

09/26/2022

Come join us tonight for UTRGV SOM Walk with a Future Doc where are very own Sports Faculty Dr. Evan Perez will be leading the talk on BMI! UTRGV School of Medicine

08/20/2022

Home opener for UTRGV Women’s Soccer! We have a big team today! (Dr. Salcedo UTRGV PGY3, Dr. Farhan Sports Med Fellow, Dr. Perez - Sports Faculty
Dr. Yi PGY1)

04/15/2022

Our faculty and fellows are the team physicians for the now 4 time NBA G League Championship RGV Vipers!!! We cover every home game ensuring the health and safety of the players including the opposing team if needed. It was another great year working with the team and we look forward to many more!

2022 NBA G League Champions⭐

We do this 4 you, Vipers fans!

04/10/2022

Come visit our booth at the AMSSM fellowship fair Tuesday morning! Or say hi before then! Jimmy Gonzales Sam Saunders Atanacio Gómez Alejandra E. Gonzalez Vega

03/25/2022

Our fellowship offers wellness Wednesdays! Every month where there is 5 Wednesdays we do a wellness activity. Yesterday we went to Dave and Busters! Won a lot of tickets and had a lot of fun!
Jimmy Gonzales Sam Saunders

02/19/2022

UTRGV Baseball opening night!!! We’re providing sports medicine coverage! Left to Right - Dr. Sam Saunders, Dr. Gomez and Dr. Perez . UTRGV Athletics UTRGV Baseball

02/17/2022

We are the team physicians for the NBA G-League RGV Vipers!!! Our Fellow Dr. Saunders is pictured on the bench providing coverage! Faculty Dr. Perez with the thumbs up under our UT Health scoreboard ad!

12/15/2021

Wednesday afternoons we have our didactics. This includes lectures, journal club, board review and ultrasound scan time to name a few things. Our fellows Drs. Gomez and Saunders are joined this month by one of our UTRGV Knapp FM PGY-3s (Dr. Igwe) and UTRGV DHR IM PGY3 (Dr. Hammad). Our fellowship PD Dr. Gonzales is leading the teaching.

12/15/2021

Double header today! We get to cover our UTRGV men and women’s basketball teams at Bert Ogden Arena!

11/11/2021

This is exciting! Happy to serve as team physicians!

RIO GRANDE VALLEY – UTRGV students have voted in favor of a proposal to support programs aided by a future increase in the intercollegiate athletics fee.

10/21/2021

Our very own Dr. Perez!

We’re getting to know Dr. Evan D. Perez, an RGV native of Edinburg!

Dr. Perez utilizes the latest, evidenced-based non-surgical care for children and adults whether they consider themselves to be non-athletes, active people, athletes, “weekend warriors,” or occupational injuries. He treats acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions such as sprains, strains, tendonitis, stress fractures, concussions, carpal tunnel syndrome, trigger points, osteoarthritis, and more. He also provides school preparticipation exams, evaluation of athlete EKGs and can help assist with return to play decisions. Dr. Perez utilizes ultrasound to assist with quick bedside diagnostics along with injection procedures.

Dr. Perez is part of our UTPA alumni, and has been a Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician at our clinical practice, UT Health RGV, since August 2018. Additionally, he’s a team physician for the UTRGV Vaqueros, UTRGV Athletics, USL RGVFC Toros, and the NBA G-League Vipers.

Dr. Perez is fulfilling his dream of returning to the RGV to transform the quality of health care for patients. We’re happy to have you here, Dr. Perez!

09/11/2021

Dr. Evan Perez and Dr. Jimmy Gonzales covering UTRGV Women’s soccer last night! Credit to our Sports Fellow Dr. Sam Saunders for snapping this photo!

08/30/2021

Dr. Sam Saunders and Dr. Jimmy Gonzales covering a recent RGV Toros game!

08/16/2021

Congratulations to our 2 recent graduates! They both passed their Sports Medicine Board exams! Job well done!
(Dr. Claflin and Dr. Zhang)

07/28/2021

This past weekend our fellows were in Denver for their annual sports medicine conference! So, one of our Family Medicine Faculty, Dr. Cepeda, helped cover our USL RGV Toros game!