Director of Sports Medicine
Dr. Jeff Anderson is in his 15th year as Director of Sports Medicine at
Connecticut, overseeing an operation that administers to the daily needs of
nearly 600 intercollegiate athletes representing 24 male and female athletic
teams.
Anderson is certified by the American Board of Family
Practice and is a member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and
the American College of Sports Medicine. He presently serves as an Assistant
Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the UConn Health Center where he
teaches UConn medical students and residents. He also serves as the Medical Director
for the Human Performance
Laboratory in the Neag School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology.
Anderson earned his medical degree in June 1990 from the
University of Michigan medical school after earning his undergraduate degree in
chemistry from North Park College in Chicago in May of 1986.
A native of Grand Rapids, Mich., Anderson and his wife,
Christine, reside in Tolland, Conn., with their two sons, Erik (15) and Luke
(10).
