BUCKNELL SPORTS MEDICINE MARK KEPPLER
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS, HEAD ATHLETIC TRAINER Associate Athletic Director Mark Keppler, now in his 30th year as Bucknell’s head athletic trainer, oversees Bucknell’s athletic training and sports medicine program. Keppler coordinates the work of seven professional staff members and a dedicated group of student assistants. The head trainer at Carnegie Mellon University for 11 years before coming to Bucknell, Keppler is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association and is both state- and nationallycertified. From 1982-84 he served as president of the Pennsylvania Athletic Training Society, and from 1984-97 he served with the Athletic Training Advisory Commission to the State Board of Physical Therapy. He is currently the Convention Chair for PATS and was inducted into that organization’s Hall of Fame in June 2006. In the spring of 2013, Keppler was named Trainer of the Year by the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Football Foundation. Keppler is a 1973 graduate of Florida State University and holds a master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh. After working with the football program for his first three years at Bucknell, Keppler moved to the fieldhouse training room to coordinate the athletic training office for the entire athletic department. In the fall of 1999, he once again took over as the primary football trainer, in addition to running the athletic training office. Keppler also serves as the primary athletic trainer for spring football, and supervises off-season rehabilitation programs for any injured Bison football players. Keppler and his wife, Wanda, reside in Lewisburg and are the parents of daughters Sarah and Reta.
Bucknell’s athletic training staff, headed by Mark Keppler, provides outstanding medical care for each of Bucknell’s student-athletes. In 2003, Keppler and his staff moved into a brand new, state-of-the-art athletic training room as part of the Kenneth G. Langone Athletics and Recreation Center design. There is also a fully-equipped athletic training facility in Christy Mathewson-Memorial Stadium and Sojka Pavilion, as well as a satellite training room at Holmes Stadium. The philosophy of the Bucknell sports medicine team is a commitment to providing the best care for Bison student-athletes. Its injury and rehab protocols are developed to help decrease athletics-related injuries, increase injury recovery time, and combine strength and flexibility, endurance and sport-specific functional activities. Every injured Bucknell student-athlete is attended by an athletic trainer at the time the injury occurs. Each of Bucknell’s professional staff trainers are state and nationally certified, and they are assisted on-site by a quality team of student athletic trainers. The care for all Bucknell students ultimately falls under the direction of the director of the University’s student health services. Athletes sustaining serious injuries requiring immediate attention in a hospital setting are sent to the emergency room of the Evangelical Community Hospital, located just two miles from the Bucknell campus.
PARTNERSHIP WITH GEISINGER SPORTS MEDICINE In August 2005, Bucknell director of athletics and recreation John Hardt and Geisinger chief of sports medicine Daniel Feldmann, MD, announced a partnership that makes Geisinger Sports Medicine the exclusive sports medicine provider for Bucknell University Athletics. Geisinger’s team of orthopaedic specialists, certified in a wide array of specialties, is responsible for the care and treatment of more than 700 Division I student-athletes participating in varsity athletics at Bucknell. Geisinger Health System is an integrated, physician-led healthcare services organization that serves more than two million residents throughout central and northeastern Pennsylvania. It includes a 650-member multi-specialty physician practice, a tertiary/quaternary medical center and an acute-care community hospital, adult and pediatric trauma centers, a nationally acclaimed alcohol and chemical dependency treatment center, heart and cancer institutes, a neurosciences program, two research centers, 41 community practice offices and one of the largest not-for-profit rural HMOs in the country. In addition to meeting the oncampus needs of the Bucknell studentathletes, Geisinger has a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary sports medicine Mark Keppler Brendan Abbey Kristin Klinger Kaitlin Kelly Kaitlyn Hager Emily Madrak facility at GMC Outpatient Surgery Assoc. AD/Head Assistant Athletic Associate Athletic Assistant Athletic Assistant Athletic Assistant Athletic Athletic Trainer Trainer (MBB) Trainer Trainer Trainer Trainer Center—Woodbine Lane in Danville. This one-stop complex features an open MRI for on-site diagnostics, a therapy pool and facilities for athlete rehabilitation. For more on the Geisinger Sports Medicine program and staff, please visit: www.geisinger.org/consumers/ services/sports_med/index.html Aya Morioka Paul Celona Cheri Orndorff Pamela Staso Fafa Tsikata Dr. Daniel Feldmann
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