Dr. Alex Diamond

Dr. Alex Diamond is a team physician for women’s basketball, men’s and women’s tennis as well as men’s and women’s golf at Vanderbilt.

Dr. Diamond—who also serves as a team physician for several high schools and the Nashville Predators—is the founder and director of the Vanderbilt Youth Sports Health Center and a professor in the departments of orthopaedic surgery, pediatrics and neurological surgery at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The creator and director of the Tennessee Safe Stars Initiative—the first youth sports safety rating system in the country—he also is consultant for the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) and as the chair of the sports medicine advisory committee for the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS).

A staunch community advocate who has testified multiple times before the Tennessee legislature on key sports medicine issues effecting youth successfully resulting in several bills being signed into law, Dr. Diamond has over 50 publications and his research focuses on injury prevention and the promotion of health and safety in youth sports.

After receiving undergraduate degree from Duke in sociology in 1998, Dr. Diamond earned his doctorate degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2003. He completed a residency in pediatrics at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and received both his fellowship training in primary care sports medicine and his master’s of public health at Vanderbilt. He and his wife Connie have two children, Evie and Evin.