Lisa R. Callahan, MD

Lisa R. Callahan, MD, joined Hospital for Special Surgery's Sports Medicine Department in 1994. She is a Co-director of the Women's Sports Medicine Center, specializing in the care of active and athletic women.

Dr. Callahan is board certified in primary care/sports medicine and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Currently, she serves as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Player Care at Madison Square Garden Sports, where she oversees the care of the Knicks (NBA), Rangers (NHL), Liberty (WNBA), Westchester Knicks (NBA D-League) and the Hartford Wolf Pack (AHL). In 2013 she was elected Secretary/Treasurer of the NBA Team Physicians Association and became Vice President in 2015. In spring of 2014, she was awarded the honor of NBA Team Physician of the Year. She was also named a team physician for the 2014-16 USA Basketball Men’s National Team and will be with both the men's and women's teams in Rio for the 2016 Olympic Games.

Dr. Callahan’s extensive experience has also included serving as a team physician for the WUSA New York Power, NFL, New York Giants, Stanford and San Jose State Universities, and as medical coordinator and event physician for triathlons, biathlons, 1994 and 1999 World Cup Soccer, 1999 Avon Running Global Championships, 1995 World Rowing Championships, 1993 Olympic Gymnastics Exhibition, 1993 International Sumo Tournament and the NCAA Golf Championships.

In addition to her current responsibilities with Madison Square Garden Sports, she has completed two terms on the board of directors of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. She is a member of the multidisciplinary Strategic Advisory Board of the NBA & GE Sports Medicine Collaboration.

Dr. Callahan, who is a North Carolina native, was an Alumni Honors Scholar at East Carolina University where she earned a bachelor’s degree (magna cum laude) in 1983 and a medical degree in 1987. She was also named Distinguished Alumnus of the Year at East Carolina in 2006.

Dr. Callahan has been named one of the city’s Best Doctors in New York Magazine’s annual Best Doctors issue and has appeared on Castle Connelly’s list of the Best Sports Doctors in the metropolitan area and Who’s Who in American Medicine.

She has extensive media experience, having been a medical contributor to ABC News/Good Morning America and Lifetime’s “Speaking of Women’s Health”, as well as host of the cable television Food Network’s lifestyle show “Recipe for Health” from 1996-98. She has authored the book, The Fitness Factor: Every Woman’s Key to a Lifetime of Health and Well-Being, (April 2002, Lyons Press),served for 15 years as a contributing editor and columnist for Self magazine, and is an editorial advisor to the Journal of Women’s Health, the Women’s Health Advisor, and Food & Fitness Advisor.

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