Michael J. Petrizzi MD, FAAFP

Dr. Petrizzi serves as a team physician for VCU and has served as the Atlee High School team physician since the school opened in 1991. His passion is to ensure that high school scholar-athletes can participate in their sports in the safest environment possible, and has co-developed the SMART (Sideline Management Assessment Response Techniques) Workshop. He also serves on the VHSL Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, its subcommittee on concussions as well as on the Hanover County Concussion Management Team.

Dr. Petrizzi serves as the chairman of the High School Team Physician Task Force for the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine and for the Sports Medicine Task Force for the VAFP. He presents at the annual meetings of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Virginia Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Society of Sports Medicine and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, as well as teaching for the National Procedure Institute.