Dr. Clarence Shields of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedics Clinic in Los Angeles is Knee1.com's newest Knee Care Hero for His Efforts to Bring Sports Medicine and Athletic Training to the Student Athlete
Cambridge, MA, February, 20, 2002: Knee1.com, a leading Internet Web site for knee health information, is honoring Dr. Clarence Shields as its newest Knee Care Hero. Dr. Shields works at the prestigious Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedics Center, one of the world's top facilities for treating orthopaedic and sports injuries. He has dedicated much of his time to high school athletes in the Los Angeles area. This work led Dr. Shields to form Team HEAL, an organization that provides quality medical care to inner city athletes. "My goal is that every school has a team doctor and an athletic trainer, but that takes money," says Shields. "The school districts are facing other issues, but we are trying to get them to see that having a healthcare profession at each of their schools would serve more than one goal.
Body1, Inc. was founded in February 1999 to provide on-line health and wellness information to consumers. The company focuses on interactively communicating with patients by partnering with technology innovators and collecting the leading voices and experts in a specific field into one place-a Knowledge Cooperative (KnowCo). Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, within five miles of Harvard, MIT and the world's largest concentration of teaching hospitals, Body1's founding group includes physicians, medical writers, business executives and computer specialists from these institutions.
Knee1.com, a Body1, Inc. KnowCo, offers comprehensive knee information, accomplished through news features, technology reports, searchable databases of the most prevalent knee conditions and possible treatments as well as interactive tools where patients can tell their knee stories and ask doctors questions. Knee1 is sponsored by medical technology titan Smith + Nephew and Genzyme Biosurgery. The Knee Care Hero series serves to spotlight the leading knee surgeons whose exceptional accomplishments exemplify what medicine can achieve.
