Boston Children’s Hospital announces the Female Athlete Program, co-directed by Kathryn Ackerman, MD, MPH and Martha Murray, MD, both of the Sports Medicine Division. One of the only programs in the country of its kind, the Female Athlete Program combines sports medicine specialties to help pediatric and adult female athletes stay as healthy as possible while competing.

Supported by a team of a world-class sports medicine physicians, the program offers multi-disciplinary care and stands out for its specialized treatment and research on the Female Athlete Triad (the interrelationship between bone health, nutrition and menstrual cycles). The team has also conducted landmark research on knee pain and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, which are five to eight times more prevalent in girls.