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By Bob Shepard
Sara Gould is in the bubble. A sports medicine physician in the UAB School of Medicine and with Children’s of Alabama, Gould has been working with the National Basketball Association in the Orlando “bubble” since July 12.
“I’ve been involved with the NBA since 2013, doing some consulting and event medicine for the league at various locations in the United States and around the world,” said Dr. Gould, an associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. “Early in my career, I did a fellowship in sports medicine in New York, which led to connections with the NBA.”
Gould points out that her affiliation is with the NBA, not the individual teams. Her role is to help manage the overall medical response in the bubble, where players are quarantined, whether that means coordinating transportation of an injured player or arranging for imaging such as MRIs or X-rays. One of the most important roles that she and her colleagues play is to help the league manage response to the pandemic.
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