William Kuprevich Named U.S. Olympic Team Chief Medical Officer

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, March 13. THE United States Olympic Committee has named William J. Kuprevich, D.O., Bloomsburg, Pa., as the Chief Medical Officer for the U.S. Team in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

As Chief Medical Officer, he will coordinate the medical coverage of more than 600 U.S. athletes in China, working with a staff of 60 doctors, athletic trainers and medical personnel in Beijing and other locations in the country.

Dr. Kuprevich also served as the CMO for the U.S. Team in last year's Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the 2006 Paralympic Games in Torino, Italy.

In other sports-related assignments he has been team physician for the U.S. Women's National Basketball Team in the FIBA World League, was a physician for the U.S. Paralympic Track and Field Team at the IPC World Championships, and was physician for various cycling championships including the 1996 Olympic Team Trials.

Dr. Kuprevich has been involved with the USOC medical program since 1999 when he served as a volunteer physician at the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center.

He established a seven-physician primary care practice consisting of Family Practice, Pediatric and Internal Medicine in Bloomsburg. In 2005 Dr. Kuprevich was named "Family Physician of the Year" by the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Family Physicians Society.

He currently serves the Pennsylvania Osteopathic Medical Association as Vice President and is a member of the Legislative Committee of the organization. He practices at the Susquehanna (Pa.) Valley Medical Specialties and is an active staff member at Bloomsburg Hospital in Bloomsburg, Pa.

Dr. Kuprevich received his undergraduate degree from Temple University in Philadelphia and did his graduate work at the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine. He interned at Mount Clemens General Hospital in Mount Clemens, Mich.

Special thanks to the USOC for contributing this report.

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