Dr. Will Workman

MLB TPA Secretary

Dr. Workman has a strong background in sports medicine, both as a practicing physician and as an athlete. As an athlete, he competed in baseball as a pitcher for the University of California Golden Bears, and played professionally in the California Angels system.  Dr. Workman now participates in recreational triathlon and cycling events; he has successfully completed three  Ironman distance triathlons (Ironman Lake Tahoe – 2013; Ironman Arizona—2017; Ironman Lake Placid – 2018) and the legendary Leadville Trail 100 MTB (2022).

After completing a five-year orthopedic surgery residency at Yale Medical School, Dr. Workman traveled to Boston where he completed his orthopedic sports medicine fellowship at Harvard Medical School. While at Harvard, he served as a team physician and traveled with the New England Patriots (NFL). In addition, he has provided orthopedic sports medicine coverage for the Boston Bruins Hockey Club (NHL), the New England Revolution Soccer team (MLS), the United States Women’s Soccer team, and Harvard University Athletics.

Dr. Workman is in private practice in Walnut Creek, CA and serves as Head Team Orthopedic Surgeon for the Oakland Athletics (MLB), and as Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Stanford University.

Dr. Jeremy Close

MLB TPA Member-At-Large

Dr. Close practices primary care and sports medicine in Philadelphia, PA. He has worked for the Phillies organization since 2014. He was the director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship and established Jefferson’s first Division of Sports & Exercise Medicine. Dr. Close co-directs and volunteers his time for the Athlete Health Organization, providing free and comprehensive sports physicals to student-athletes in underserved communities. Dr. Close was born and raised in Colorado. He enjoys many outdoor sports and activities as well as spending his free time with his wife and two children.

Dr. Patrick McCulloch

MLB TPA Past President

Dr. Patrick McCulloch is an orthopedic sports medicine specialist and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. He holds the John S. Dunn endowed Chair in Orthopedic Surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital. He is a long-time Team Physician for the Houston Astros, and now serves as their Director of Baseball Medical Research and sits on the MLB Research Committee. He is the immediate past President of the Major League Baseball team physician association. He is also the Head Team Physician for Rice University Athletics. In addition, he works with the Houston Ballet and the NASA Astronaut Corps.

He performs arthroscopic shoulder, elbow and knee procedures. These include ligament and tendon repairs, reconstructions and fracture surgery. He treats labrum and meniscus tears, and articular cartilage injuries- including cell therapies and cartilage transplants. In addition to acute sports injury and instability, Dr. McCulloch treats all degenerative shoulder conditions including rotator cuff repairs and shoulder replacements.

He graduated from Harvard with Honors where he was a varsity athlete. He graduated at the top of his class from the University of California (UCSF) School of Medicine, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society and was President of the student body. Dr. McCulloch returned to Harvard to complete internship at Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital and residency in at the Harvard Combined Orthopedic Surgery Program. He completed a fellowship in sports medicine at Rush Medical Center in Chicago. He subsequently completed the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) European Traveling Fellowship. He was faculty at Baylor College of Medicine for three years before joining the Houston Methodist Hospital staff where he holds academic appointments from Houston Methodist Academic Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas A&M, and is the Associate Fellowship Director.

He teaches fellows and residents and is a founding editor of “Orthobullets.com” which is a free orthopedic education website. His research interests include clinical and laboratory studies pertaining to baseball, knee, shoulder and elbow instabilities, emerging technologies, cell therapies, as well as meniscal and articular cartilage repair.

Dr. Steven Cohen

MLB TPA Past President

Dr. Cohen is a board certified sports medicine surgeon. He is the head team physician to the Philadelphia Phillies He currently serves as the President of the MLB team physicians association and on the medical advisory board for Major League Baseball.

He is a professor in the department of orthopedic surgery at Thomas Jefferson University and is the director of sports medicine research at Rothman Orthopaedic Institute. He has published and presented research extensively both nationally and internationally and has been an editor of 8 sports medicine books. In 2009, Dr. Cohen was named as a “rising star” by Philadelphia Magazine.

He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, his medical degree from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed his orthopedic residency at the University of Virginia. He followed with a sports medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, during which he worked closely with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and the University of Pittsburgh athletic program.

Dr. Sean Curtin

MLB TPA Vice President

Dr. Curtin is board certified in internal medicine with a Certificate of Added Qualifications in primary care sports medicine. He has been a Team Physician in the Baltimore Orioles organization since 2002 and the Head Team Physician for the Baltimore Orioles since 2018. He also currently serves as a Team Physician for the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL and the Washington Capitals in the NHL. He is a member of the MLB Team Physicians Association, the NFL Physicians Society and the NHL Team Physicians Society.

Formerly, he served as Team Physician for the US Lacrosse Women’s National Senior Team from 2010-2017, and as Team Physician for the University of Maryland Terrapins and the Johns Hopkins University Blue Jays.

He played baseball as an undergraduate at Villanova University where received a degree in chemical engineering. He later received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine before completing a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in primary care sports medicine, both at the University of Maryland Medical System. He works as a physician in the MedStar Health, Department of Sports Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Robert G. Najarian

MLB TPA Treasurer

Dr. Robert G. Najarian is a board-certified orthopedic and sports medicine surgeon. With additional fellowship training in sports medicine and more than 18 years of experience, he specializes in treating the knee, shoulder, and elbow, as well as all sports-related injuries. His area of focus is in the treatment of knee cartilage and ligamentous injury, shoulder instability and rotator cuff repair, and elbow injuries in the throwing athlete (Tommy John Surgery). He has been named a Washingtonian Top Doctor since 2016. Dr. Najarian is an adjunct orthopedic faculty member for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Georgetown University, and the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Dr. Najarian currently serves as the lead team physician for the Washington Nationals (MLB). He has been with the Washington Nationals organization as a team physician since 2016. He also serves as an assistant team physician for DC United (MLS) and DC Defenders (XFL/UFL). From 2009-2013, he was a team physician for The Ohio State University athletics where he was also an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery. Dr. Najarian also provided care to USA Rugby and the Columbus Clippers, the Triple A affiliate of Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians, and winners of the Governor’s Cup International League Championship in 2010 and 2011.

A native of New York, Dr. Najarian now resides in McLean, Virginia with his wife and three children. In his free time he enjoys traveling and spending time with his family.

Dr. Vincent Key

MLB TPA  Past President

Dr. Vincent Key is certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery with a sub certification in sports medicine. He completed a fellowship at Wellington Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and completed his residency at Martin Luther King-Drew Medical Center. He decided to become a doctor because he loves to help people.

He grew up around the healthcare field; however, it wasn’t until college that he knew he wanted to pursue sports medicine as a profession. He was no stranger to sports injuries as a college athlete, so he became familiar with orthopedics. He wanted to be able to diagnose and treat athletes and get them back to competing. He has a passion for treating young athletes. With four athletic children of his own, he knows the importance of treating the individual patient, not just the injury. He specializes in arthroscopic procedures and the treatment of shoulder, elbow and knee injuries for professional athletes, young athletes and weekend warriors alike. The injuries for all levels of athletes are similar, and often so are their treatment courses.

Christopher L. Camp, M.D.

MLB TPA Member-At-Large

Dr. Camp is originally from Tennessee where he attended and played baseball at Lee University.  He attended medical school and Orthopedic Surgery Residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Following residency, he completed two years of fellowship training and research in Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York where he worked with the New York Mets. Now, he is a practicing sports medicine surgeon at the Mayo Clinic where he treats athletes of all ages and serves as the Sports Medicine Fellowship Director. His clinical practice focuses on treatment of shoulder, elbow, and knee injuries in athletes. Academically, he has published extensive research on sport related injuries, with a special focus on injuries impacting overhead athletes and baseball players. He is currently the Medical Director and Director of High Performance for the MN Twins Baseball Club, and he serves as the Team Orthopedic Surgeon for the Minnesota Lynx.

Dr. Craig Milhouse

MLB TPA Member-At-Large

Dr. Milhouse graduated from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1980. He works in Orange, CA and specializes in Internal Medicine and Sports Medicine. Dr. Milhouse is affiliated with St Joseph Hospital Of Orange.

Dr. Nikhil Verma

MLB TPA President

Dr. Verma specializes in treatment of the shoulder, elbow and knee with an emphasis on advanced arthroscopic reconstructive techniques of the shoulder, shoulder replacement, knee ligament reconstruction and articular cartilage reconstruction and elbow repair and reconstruction.

A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Dr. Verma completed his orthopedic residency at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center. He then completed a fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery in sports medicine and shoulder surgery. While in New York, he served as an assistant team physician for the St. John’s University Athletic Department. He also received specialized training in treatment of shoulder and elbow disorders in the overhead throwing athlete.

Currently, Dr. Verma maintains an active clinical practice performing over 900 procedures per year. He is Director of the Division of Sports Medicine and Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship Program. In addition, he serves as head team physician for the Chicago White Sox and assistant team physician Chicago Bulls. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Verma is actively involved in orthopedic research with interests in basic science, biomechanics and clinical outcomes, and has recently received funding for his work from Major League Baseball. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed manuscripts in major orthopedic and sports medicine journals, numerous book chapters, and routinely serves as teaching faculty for orthopedic courses on advanced surgical techniques. He frequently serves as an invited speaker or guest surgeon for national and international orthopedic sports medicine meetings.

On the academic front, Dr. Verma serves as Associate Editor of the Arthroscopy Journal, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Knee Surgery. He is a member of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, American Shoulder and Elbow Society, Arthroscopy Association of North America, Major League Baseball Team Physician Association, and is a fellow in the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He has been elected by his peers to “Best Doctors in America” every year since 2007.

Dr. Nikhil Verma was voted among the top 10-15% of Top Doctors in America® by U.S.News & World Report and Castle Connolly. The Top Doctors list is widely regarded as a high-quality reference guide to the medical profession.