2011-12 Hofstra Men's Basketball Media Guide - GoHofstra.com

SPORTS MEDICINE/ATHLETIC TRAINING
Through a comprehensive athletic training program, Hofstra
University student-athletes are provided excellent health care
during their time at the University. A coordinated effort between
the University Health and Wellness Center, the Athletic
Department and outside health care providers ensures every
student-athlete the best medical attention possible.
University student-athletes have direct access to a myriad
of health care services. Managing the coverage of every
practice and competition event is Hofstra
University’s athletic training staff, which is
led by ninth-year Head Athletic Trainer Evan
Malings and features six full-time athletic
trainers and numerous student athletic
trainers. The athletic trainers provide injury
management, rehabilitation and treatment
to the entire Athletic program. Utilizing
three state-of-the-art athletic training rooms,
these professionals work tirelessly to ensure
the safe participation of Hofstra’s studentathletes
and to return injured athletes to play
quickly and safely.
Supporting the athletic trainers is team
physician Dr. Michael Yorio. Dr. Yorio,
a physician with Pro Health Care, Inc. in
Lake Success, New York, is in his third
year on Hofstra’s medical team. Yorio is an
internist with specialized training in sports
medicine. He earned his undergraduate
degree at Villanova University, and received his medical
degree from the SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse.
Yorio previously served as a sports medicine fellow with the
University of Maryland Orthopedics. Prior to that, he was a
resident physician in internal medicine at Carolinas Medical
Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Yorio was named the Director of Player Medical Services for
the 2008 U.S. Open Tennis Tournament in Flushing, New York,
and is on the medical staff for the New York Islanders. He also
worked as a team physician for the University of Maryland
from 2003 to 2005.
Hofstra University sponsors a fully accredited, highly
competitive undergraduate degree program for athletic training
majors, in which Hofstra student athletic trainers participate in
all aspects of the health care system.
Evan Malings
Head Athletic Trainer
Dr. Michael Yorio
Team Physician
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