Tarek Omar Souryal is an orthopaedic surgeon in the field of sports medicine, known for his research on the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). He currently practices in Dallas, Texas at Texas Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Group.He is currently in his 21st season as the Head Physician for the 2011 NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team and he also serves as the President of the NBA Physicians Association. In addition, he has been the head physician for professional sports franchises including the Dallas Burn of Major League Soccer, the Dallas Freeze of the Central Hockey League, and the Dallas Texans of the Arena Football League. He is in his fourteenth season as the host of the 2-hour weekly radio show "Inside Sports Medicine" on ESPN Radio. Souryal also provides medical advice and support to underprivileged high school athletes through his Texas Sports Medicine Foundation.
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Early life and education
Souryal was born January 10, 1957 in Cairo, Egypt. His family immigrated to the United States when he was 9, and settled in Huntsville, Texas. He graduated from Huntsville High School in 1974 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Sam Houston State University in 1977. He attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and completed his internship and residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and Parkland Hospital in Dallas, respectively., followed by a sports medicine fellowship at the Hughston Orthopaedic Clinic in Columbus, Georgia. During this fellowship he published, "Bilaterality in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries", published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine. In the paper, he reported discovering a particular boney structure in the knee that predisposes athletes to ACL tears. His research has been cited by numerous physicians writing for various academic publications.
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Medical career
After completing this fellowship in 1988, Souryal founded Texas Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Group, where he is Medical Director. He began his career with the Dallas Mavericks in the late 1980s under then-owner Don Carter. Additionally, he has overseen a Student Sports Injury Clinic at Southern Methodist University from 1988 to 2002 and has served as volunteer physician for several Dallas area high schools.
He has authored several articles on sports injuries and their treatment, with subjects ranging from shoulder arthroscopy and reconstruction to ACL tears and rehabilitation.
Texas Sports Medicine Foundation
Souryal founded the Texas Sports Medicine Foundation in 2003 to serve economically disadvantaged high school athletes with sports injuries, and to support research studies on improving the setting in which student-athletes train and compete. The foundation lobbied the Texas Legislature to pass a bill requiring Texas public schools to have an automated external defibrillator on hand at all high school sporting events and practices, known in Texas as Senate Bill 7, signed into law in 2007.
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