MEDIA ADVISORY : June 23, 2008
Contact: Anne McMillin, APR
Office 775-682-9254
Mobile 702-292-4247
amcmillin@medicine.nevada.edu
Media invited to cover School of Medicine students, physicians providing care to Volleyball Festival athletes
Media availability on June 30, July 1-3
WHAT:
Physicians and medical students from the University of Nevada School of Medicine will provide on-site medical services during the women’s Volleyball Festival held at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center June 27 through July 3. Nearly 10,000 athletes are expected to participate in the tournament which is billed as the world’s largest all female non-professional sporting event.
This is the third year a team from the School of Medicine has provided volunteer medical support for the Festival. The team works with the tournament’s athletic trainers to help treat a variety of sports and non-sports related injuries and illnesses including sprained ankles, torn ACLs, concussions, flu and cold symptoms and more.
Additional volunteer medical services for the Festival are provided by REMSA, Renown Medical Center, the Reno Orthopaedic Clinic as well as some local dentists.
WHEN / WHERE:
June 30, July 1 & 3, 2008
Physician clinics at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center
4001 S. Virginia Street, Reno
Noon and 5 p.m. (90 minutes each) daily
July 2, 2008
Lawlor Events Center (tournament finals)
University of Nevada, Reno
1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno
5 to 7 p.m.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future. For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.