University of Connecticut Athletics
UConn's Anderson Named To Major League Baseball Post
6/19/2012 12:00:00 AM | General
June 19, 2012
STORRS, Conn. - University of Connecticut Director of Sports Medicine and Acting Director of Medical Services within Student Health Services Dr. Jeffrey M. Anderson has been named the new independent administrator of the Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program for Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association. Anderson will continue his duties at UConn.
"I am very honored to have this opportunity to work with Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association on this very important and crucial issue," said Anderson. "I look forward to continuing in serving my duties at the University of Connecticut."
Anderson will administer testing requirements, monitor collection procedures and testing protocols and audit test results. He will also administer the process of the Therapeutic Use Exemption, which permits athletes to take a prohibited medication. In addition, Anderson will prepare and release an annual public report on the program's findings.
Anderson has been an assistant clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Connecticut's Health Center since 1996 and medical director for research in the Department of Kinesiology's Human Performance Laboratory in the Neag School of Education since '05.
Anderson serves as chair of the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports. The University of Michigan Medical School graduate is board certified in family medicine, with an added qualification in sports medicine.
