Steven D. Stovitz, MD

Assistant Professor
612-333-0774
stovi001@umn.edu

Primary Research Themes: Community-based sports medicine, obesity, increasing physical activity in inactive people

Education Activities: Chair, sports medicine curriculum in the Family Medicine Residency program; precepts residents in an outpatient clinic; teaches musculoskeletal and anatomy workshops in medical school Clinical Medicine courses; advises and precepts medical students in outpatient rotation.

Current Grants

2006-07; Obesity Consortium, Pilot Grant "Comparing Childhood Weight-for-Age to Body Mass Index in the Prediction of Adolescent Obesity and Chronic Disease Risk Factors"

2005-10; NIH; "Women in Steady Exercise Research (WISER)"

2006-07; Career Development Grant; "Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC)"

2006-07; University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid; "Optimizing Cardiovascular and Bone Health in Children: A Novel Intervention"

Selected Publications

Stovitz SD, VanWormer JJ, Center BA, Lindstrom Bremer K. Pedometers and brief physician counseling: Improving physical activity levels for patients seen at a family practice clinic. The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice. In press.

Stovitz SD, Satin DJ. Professionalism and the ethics of the sideline physician. Current Primary Care Reports. 2007; March. In press.

Stovitz SD, Satin DJ. Ethics and the athlete: Why sports are more than a game, but less than a war. Clinics in Sports Medicine. 2004;23(2):215-266.

Stovitz SD; Coetzee JC. Commentary: Isolated gastrocnemius tightness. JBJS 2002;84-A (6): 962-920; Sports Medicine Alert; 2003;9:1-2.

Stovitz SD. Commentary: The epidemic of serious knee injuries in female athletes: Can a training program decrease the incidence? Sports Medicine Alert, March 2000.

Stovitz SD. Encouraging the elderly to exercise. Pearl: The Physician and Sportsmedicine. 2000;28(4):20.

Education

Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1999-2000

MD, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA, 1993.

Selected Professional Activities

Course director, USA Soccer Cup Tournament sports medicine elective, 2001-present.

Course director, Sports Medicine, bi-annual CME sports medicine course, 2000-present.

Course director, annual Twin Cities Marathon sports medicine CME course, 2001-present.

Presenter, Department of Health and Human Services roundtable on “State-of-the-Art Management of Mild to Moderate Pain,” Washington DC, 2003.