Women's Sports Medicine Center | Stony Brook Medicine

The Women's Sports Medicine Center, the first of its kind in Suffolk County, is a division of the award-winning Department of Orthopaedics at Stony Brook University Hospital. The center focuses on treating and preventing sports-, performance- and exercise-related injuries among girls and women through a multidisciplinary approach utilizing the expertise of our mostly female staff of physicians, many of whom were athletes themselves.

The Women’s Sports Medicine Center, directed by Kristin Hopkins, MD, focuses on conditions and injuries more common to girls and women, such as stress fractures, knee ligament tears (ACL and PCL), rotator cuff tears and hammertoe complications. The expert team of orthopaedists performs a variety of procedures to address these ailments, including repair and reconstructive surgery for ligament, meniscus, bunions and ACL injuries, as well as hammertoe correction, among others, while also integrating the care of Stony Brook Medicine specialists in the fields of nutrition, psychology, and obstetrics and gynecology, to name a few, to help solve your orthopaedic issue.

Conditions Treated:

Fractures
Stress fractures
Shoulder instability/labrum tears
Knee instability
ACL and PCL tears
Rotator cuff tears
Patellofemoral disorders
Bunions
Hammertoe

Procedures Performed:

Fracture care
Knee arthroscopy
Ligament repair
Meniscus repair
Shoulder arthroscopy
ACL repair and reconstruction
Bunion repair
Reconstruction surgery
Hammertoe correction

First ever Women in Sports Medicine
Mentorship Program

Our female Attending Physicians and PAs working in Sports Medicine along with Stony Brook ATs and PTs have been mentoring High School girls interested in a career in Sports Medicine. The program culminated with an in-person workshop teaching about the many things this career entails! Here you can see the mentors teaching their mentees how to suture, read X-rays and MRIs, cast/splint and discuss sideline management of sports injuries.
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Team Members

Kristin Hopkins, MD
Director