Texas Tech University Athletics
Texas Tech Athletics Announces Medical Center Initiative
June 21, 1999 | General
August 31, 1998
LUBBOCK, Texas - The Texas Tech athletic department and Texas Tech Medical Center have entered into a multi-year agreement that provides for expanding the sports medicine resources for Red Raider student-athletes.
Under the new initiative, current team physician Dr. Robert King will serve as senior associate athletic director for sports medicine and head team physician. He will oversee the sports medicine program within the athletic department. Natalie Steadman will continue her role as head athletic trainer under the new title of assistant athletic director for sports health.
In addition to current team physicians Drs. James Burke, Rebecca Raedeke and Michael Robertson, the sports medicine physician program will add two doctors from the Medical Center. Dr. Harry Galanty will serve as the director of the sports medicine program and Dr. James Slauterbeck will serve as a team physician.
"We feel that our student-athletes have always received the best in the area of care and prevention of athletic-related injuries," said athletic director Gerald Myers. "With the addition of the staff of the Texas Tech Medical Center on our team, we will be able to expand our resources and bring some exciting assets into the department."
King is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon and has served as chairman of the Orthopaedic Section of St. Mary's and Methodist Hospitals as well as chief of staff of Methodist Hospital. He has been an orthopaedic consultant to the athletic department for 18 years and has served as head team physician for the last 10 seasons.
Galanty, a former baseball player at Duke University, is a former team physician for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been involved with the sports medicine efforts for various U.S. Olympic Training Teams and, most recently, was involved with the USA vs. Germany international decathlon competition held at Texas Tech. Slauterbeck served as the team physician for the USA women's soccer team in 1996 and was a team physician at UCLA. He played football at Arizona State as an undergraduate.
"For years, Texas Tech has had a great reputation for the quality of care provided to its student-athletes," said Medical Center dean Dr. Joel Kupersmith. "This commitment to excellence has been a result of the work of Dr. King and others. We have begun developing an expanded sports medicine program at the Texas Tech Medical Center and we are very excited about joining this fine team and becoming a part of Texas Tech athletics."
