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Nathaniel Jones, MD, a primary care sports medicine specialist at Loyola Medicine, and the Team Physician for Division 1 Loyola University Chicago, University of St. Francis Joliet, US Soccer. Dr. Jones has more than 14 years of experience. Dr. Nate Jones received his medical degree from the University of Iowa. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and further developed his clinical abilities in the field of Primary Care Sports Medicine by completing a fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital. Certified in sports medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine, he looks after multiple communities in the state of Illinois. Patients visit him to treat a wide variety of sports, musculoskeletal and medical conditions such as sports injuries, arthritis, spondylolysis, tendonitis, osteoarthritis, and sciatica. He is experienced with musculoskeletal ultrasound, joint injections and minor fracture care. He is the Medical Director of the Loyola Concussion Clinic. 
Dr. Jones speaks fluent English, Spanish, and Portuguese. This helps him treat his clients from several cultural backgrounds who are more comfortable to converse with him. His extensive experience in his field of practice has helped him author several publications with other eminent practitioners. He believes in providing excellent patient care and strives towards quickly bringing patients back to their routine way of life. 

Linda Pierce, PhD MSN RN CRRN FAAN is Professor Emerita at the University of Toledo. Dr. Pierce is a graduate of the University of Akron (Ohio) and Wayne State University (Michigan). She is board certified in rehabilitation nursing (CRRN), a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), and is a leader in the nursing field. Linda was President of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses in 2010, and Associate Editor of the Rehabilitation Nursing journal from 2014-2020. Her interests are in all aspects of nursing related to rehabilitation, as well as geriatrics, leadership and management. Dr. Pierce鈥檚 specific interest centers on and advances the science of healthy well-being and the art of compassionate caring. She concentrates on interventions/treatments for people dealing with human responses to disability, assisting them to maintain, attain or regain their ability. Linda focuses on family research related to caregivers for people with stroke and dementia, as well as other areas of concern related to rehabilitation nursing, e.g., falls, long-term care issues. Based on her expertise in these areas, Dr. Pierce has numerous publications; she serves as a consultant about supportive web-based education and research (designs, data collection and analyses) in the United States and Canada.

Dr. Agui帽aga is committed to advancing the scientific knowledge that addresses health disparities in cognition and dementia-related diseases through community-based physical activity research. She received an Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity grant for a study of sitting time, activity, and dementia in underserved populations in central Illinois and Chicago. She also has investigated relationships among cognitive function, lifestyle, and exercise after cancer treatment. Through her research, she hopes to increase diversity in dementia-related research and reverse growing disparities in physical activity and dementia-related diseases, with the ultimate goal of creating culturally appropriate physical activity interventions for racially and ethnically diverse older adults with cognitive impairment and dementia-related diseases.

Eric Hegedus is Professor and Department Chair of Rehabilitation Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine. He has had a notable 32-year career as a leader and innovator in physical therapist education, research, and clinical practice. He was also the founding Program Director of Tufts DPT- Phoenix, AZ. as well as the Founding Chair of the Doctor of Physical Therapy Department at High Point University. He was a Vice-Chief in Duke's Doctor of Physical Therapy Division where he directed and taught Musculoskeletal Practice Management courses garnering him the American Physical Therapy Association's Orthopedic Section James a Gould Teaching Award, a national award given to the single most deserving teaching professor annually. He also was a four-time winner of the "Duke DPT Excellence in Teaching" award and a three-time nominee for Duke Medical Center's prestigious Master Clinician Educator Award. 

As a scholar, he is driven to answer relevant clinical questions in the orthopedic and sports diagnosis and rehabilitation realm and translate the findings to clinical practice. This singular passion has driven his scholarly agenda resulting in publication of over 90 peer-reviewed articles, 20 abstracts, and 5 book chapters. He contributed to the writing of the new clinical practice guidelines for shoulder instability for the profession of physical therapy and is currently involved with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Math (NASEM) reviewing relevant literature of adverse events related to vaccine. 

Dr. Hegedus has a long history of developing successful clinical practices and remains a practicing physical therapist.