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2023 Youth Sports Health and Safety Conference

Health care providers, coaches, parents and youth sports advocates: Join us on July 14 for our fifth annual Youth Sports Health and Safety Conference, presented by Vanderbilt Youth Sports Health Center.

In addition to meeting the nation's leading experts in youth sports, learning the latest trends in youth sports and ways to keep your teams safe, you'll have the opportunity to receive CPR and AED training to meet the Safe Starts law in Tennessee.

Hear from sports leaders of organizations such as:

  • Team USA
  • National Federation of State High School Associations
  • Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association
  • Tennessee Interscholastic Athletic Adminstrators Assocation
  • Vanderbilt Youth Sports Health Center
  • Tennessee Department of Health

Topics include social determinants of health affecting student athletes; ending violence against women; managing respiratory conditions; bone health; and much more.

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2023 Youth Sports Health and Safety Conference

July 14, 2023 | 7:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music
2400 Blakemore Ave, Nashville, TN 37212

Learn strategies to help prevent and treat youth and adolescent sports-related injuries, protect the physical and mental health of young athletes and promote their well-being through participation in athletics.
About Youth Sports Health Center

The Vanderbilt Youth Sports Health Center is a partnership between Vanderbilt Sports Medicine and Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. This new center helps young athletes avoid or recover from injuries and illnesses so they can improve and compete at their best. To schedule an appointment, call 615-421-8900.

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