Margot Putukian is the former Chief Medical Officer for Major League Soccer and former Director of Athletic Medicine, Head Team Physician, and Assistant Director of Medical Services at Princeton University. Dr. Putukian earned her BS in biological sciences at Yale University where she played soccer and lacrosse and earned her MD at Boston University in Boston. She is board certified in internal medicine and sports medicine. Dr. Putukian is a past president of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, has served as a team physician for the US Men’s National Lacrosse team, and currently serves as a Team Physician for the US Women’s National Soccer teams. She serves as a senior advisor on the NFL Head Neck & Spine Committee, the IOC Mental Health Work Group, and the FA Research Task Force. She has served on the USOPC Mental Health advisory board and chaired the Clinical Sports Medicine Leadership Committee for the American College of Sports Medicine as well as the Sports Science & Safety Committee for US Lacrosse. She currently serves as a board member for the Concussion in Sport Group. Dr. Putukian has presented on a variety of sports medicine topics at annual meetings, Team Physician, Advanced Team, and International Team Physician courses. With more than 320 unique presentations, and over 250 published articles, Dr. Putukian has provided ongoing scholarly work. Dr. Putukian has been a co-author on several Team Physician Consensus Statements, Concussion in Sport Consensus Statmentes, the AMSSM Position Statements on Mononucleosis, Concussion and Mental Health and the IOC Mental Health in Elite Athletes Statement, written several book chapters and been an editor for 5 sports medicine books.
