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J. PAT EVANS RESEARCH FOUNDATION - DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
The J. Pat Evans Research Foundation
is governed by a Board of Directors consisting of the founders of rodeo sports medicine in North America. The Board of Directors will appoint executive committees which will be composed of the leaders in the world of rodeo medicine, science and allied health.
- J. Pat Evans, MD - Chairman  J. Pat is a native of Texas and the ultimate doctor in the sport of rodeo.
He attended Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington on a football scholarship. When he was injured playing ball he became a
student athletic trainer. After graduation he attended the Grady Vaughn School of Physical Therapy and was then accepted to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. J. Pat continued his education where he became a Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon and a Follow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery. He was the Team Physician for the Dallas Cowboys from 1970 to 1989 and the Dallas Mavericks from 1980 to 1992. Doctor Evans started covering
rodeos in the 1970's for friend and cowboy (both football and rodeo) Walt Garrison. It was at one of these events that he and Don Andrews envisioned sports medicine for the professional rodeo athlete which became a reality in 1981. J. Pat Evans is not only an innovator being one of the first physicians in the country to dedicate his medical
practice to sports medicine but saw the need for the rodeo cowboy to be treated the same as a Dallas Cowboy.
- Don Andrews - President, Secretary  The concept of sports medicine coverage for rodeo first appeared in 1979 during the Copenhagen Superstars competition in Fort Worth, Texas. Don had come to Texas as the Head Athletic Trainer with the New York
Islanders' development club after stints with the Toronto and Vancouver Hockey Organizations.
He first got into professional sports while attending the University of Tennessee in Knoxville after playing hockey in Nashville where he grew up. Don co-founded the Justin Sportsmedicine Team in
1981
while employed
as the Director of Sports Medicine Programs by the Medical School of the University of North Texas. He not only established
the first sports medicine program in the sport of rodeo but in 1985 he created the first sports medicine program in motor sports. Don is the Chief Executive Officer of Mobile Sports
Medicine Systems, Inc. as well as the Executive Director of the J. Pat Evans Research Foundation, both headquartered in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He also serves as a board member of the International Council of Motorsport Sciences and the Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund.
- Dexter Nelson, CATC - Treasurer  Dexter completed his Bachelor of Physical Education at the University
of Calgary in 1972 followed by a MSc degree in Physical Education
/Athletic Training from Brigham Young University in 1977. Dexter
worked
as the
Head Athletic Therapist with the Canadian National Men's Basketball Team (1971-1975), the Edmonton Eskimo Football Club of
the Canadian Football League (1974), Head Athletic Therapist and Instructor at the University of Calgary (1975-1983) and started and provided leadership to the Canadian
Pro Rodeo Sport Medicine Team from 1983 until retiring in 2007.Dexter is
a past President of the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association and in 1997 was recognized with the CATA Hall of Fame Award. He continues to serve the CATA as a member of the International Relations Committee, the Financial Advisory Committee and is a Founding Board Member of the Canadian College of Athletic Therapy.
Dexter currently is the Chair of the Board of Certification Task Force on Global Practice and Credentialing of Athletic Trainers and Therapists.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES
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Jason Mihalik
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Education Committee
Dexter Nelson
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Development Committee
J. Pat Evans
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