Ned Amendola

Ned Amendola, MD, is the Director of the UI Sports Medicine Program and has served as the head team physician for the Hawkeye football team and other Hawkeye athletic teams since fall 2001. He is a professor with The University of Iowa Department of Orthopaedic Surgery faculty. Dr. Amendola was named recipient of the Kim and John Callaghan Endowed Chair in Sports Medicine by the University in June of 2009.

Amendola represents a distinguished list of previous team physicians from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, including Joseph Buckwalter, M.D., the department's chair. As team physician, Amendola attends all games, is responsible for the care of all the athletes, and as the team's orthopedic surgeon, manages the players' musculoskeletal complaints.