Douglas Aukerman MD

Dr. Doug Aukerman is a sports medicine physician who serves as director of sports medicine for Samaritan Health Services and senior associate athletic director/sports medicine at Oregon State University. He manages, on a day-to-day basis, the sports medicine program for all of OSU’s intercollegiate athletics sports teams and clinic operations for Samaritan Sports Medicine Center.

Dr. Aukerman’s focus is to ensure that OSU’s student-athletes receive the best care possible in all aspects of their athletic training, including injury prevention, treatment and rehabilitation. His goals are to institute new procedures and methodologies into practice in the OSU sports medicine program, monitor medical expenditures and record keeping, and to coordinate the services of team physicians and consultants. He also facilitates the flow of information between physicians and consultants with head coaches, develops and enhances the technical expertise of the medical staff, and identifies highly trained new staff as the need requires.