SamiFRifatMDFACSM(He/Him)

Family Medicine • Garfield Heights, OH

Sports Medicine (Non-Surgical)

Director Primary Sports Medicine Cleveland Clinic

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Office
5555 Transportation Blvd
Garfield Heights, OH 44125
Phone+1 216-518-3482

Education & Training

Ohio State University HospitalFellowship, Sports Medicine (Family Medicine), 1993 - 1994
University of MichiganResidency, Family Medicine, 1990 - 1993
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and ScienceClass of 1990

Certifications & Licensure

MI State Medical License 1992 - 2026
OH State Medical License 1993 - 2025
American Board of Family Medicine Family Medicine
American Board of Family Medicine Sports Medicine

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

9 citations
Achieving Consensus Through a Modified Delphi Technique to Create the Post-concussion Collegiate Return-to-Learn Protocol.
Allyssa K Memmini, Michael J Popovich, Kristen H Schuyten, Stanley A Herring, Katie L Scott
Sports Medicine. 2023-04-01
186 citations
Prevalence of Clinical and Subclinical Myocarditis in Competitive Athletes With Recent SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Results From the Big Ten COVID-19 Cardiac Registry.
Curt J. Daniels, Saurabh Rajpal, Joel T. Greenshields, Geoffrey L. Rosenthal, Eugene H. Chung
JAMA Cardiology. 2021-09-01
9 citations
Competitive Sports, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic, and Big Ten Athletics.
Lawrence D. Rink, Curt J. Daniels, Doug Boersma, James Borchers, Jeremy Busch
Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 2020-10-30