James Borchers, MD

Professor

Family Medicine

James Borchers

Academic contact

2835 Fred Taylor Dr
Columbus, OH 43202

Phone: 614-293-3600
Fax: 614-293-2910

James.Borchers@osumc.edu

Academic information

  • Department: Family Medicine
  • Division: Family Medicine / Sports Medicine

Research interests

  • Sports Medicine
  • ACL Reconstruction
  • Metabolic Syndrome in Collegiate Football Players
  • Resource Utilization among Collegiate Athletes
  • Injury Prevention
  • Epidemiology of Injury

About

Biography

The focus of my research has been on outcomes-based studies that affect the field of sports medicine. I have used my training from obtaining my MPH with a focus on clinical investigations to examine clinical outcomes in sports medicine topics such as ACL reconstruction, metabolic syndrome in collegiate football players and resource utilization among collegiate athletes. I have published on these efforts and continue work in these areas. I have worked with the Multicentered Orthopedic Outcomes Network (MOON) research consortium analyzing data regarding an ongoing prospective cohort regarding ACL reconstruction, outcomes, risk factors and risk factor modification. I have also published numerous studies on the prevention of injury in athletes and continue to study the epidemiology of injury and prevention of injury in collegiate athletes.

I have also focused scholarly work on instructing sports medicine fellows in writing systematic reviews and publishing and presenting original researching. In my years as director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, we have had multiple systematic reviews published with fellows. During this same time period, there have been an additional 30-40 publications and presentations at national meetings involving our fellows. Every fellow in our program since my time as director has had at least one per reviewed presentation at a national sports medicine meeting and at least one peer reviewed publication submitted or accepted.

I plan to continue outcomes based research in the future and will be collaborating with others in sports medicine on risk factor evaluation for injury based on pre-participation examination and interventions to decrease injury risk. I also have ongoing projects with MOON continuing to study long term outcomes following ACL reconstruction.

Credentials

Education

Fellowship - Family Medicine, Sports Medicine
Toledo Children's Hospital, Toledo, OH, United States
7/1/2003 - 6/13/2004
Residency - Family Medicine
Toledo Children's Hospital, Toledo, OH, United States
7/1/2000 - 6/13/2003
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH, United States
8/1/1998 - 5/13/2000
Medical School
St. George's University School of Medicine, St. George, Grenada
1/15/1996 - 4/24/1998

Certifications

  • American Board of Family Medicine/Sports Medicine
    7/10/2004
  • American Board of Family Medicine
    7/11/2003

Research

Research interests

  • Sports Medicine
  • ACL Reconstruction
  • Metabolic Syndrome in Collegiate Football Players
  • Resource Utilization among Collegiate Athletes
  • Injury Prevention
  • Epidemiology of Injury

Active Funding

  • Co-investigator, NIH, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Functional evaluation to predict lower extremity musculoskeletal injury, 2013 – 2018

Editorial Activities

  • Journal Editorial Board, The Physician and Sports Medicine, 2009 - present
  • Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, 2007 - present
  • Journal reviewer, Sports Review Journal, 2015 - present
  • Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Athletic Training, 2010 - present
  • Associate editor, Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, 2009 - present

Professional Memberships

  • American College of Sports Medicine
  • American Medical Society of Sports Medicine
  • American Academy of Family Physicians
  • Ohio Academy of Family Physicians

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