Ferritin and the issues with how and when to treat athletes

Dr Karl “Bert” Fields is the Medical Director, Sports Medicine Center, Cone Health System, Greensboro, North Carolina. Dr. Fields graduated with Distinction from the University of Kentucky School of Medicine and the Charlotte Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency. Dr. Fields is a Professor with the Department of Family Medicine at Chapel Hill. He has taught medical students, residents and Sports Medicine students since 1980. He has extensive experience in sports medicine coverage at the professional, international, collegiate and high school levels. Dr. Fields is past President of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. He is Chairman of the North Carolina Medical Society's Sports Medicine Committee and lectures for the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of sports Medicine and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. Dr. Fields' also holds expertise in the areas of exercise physiology, musculoskeletal ultrasound testing, stress testing and orthotic preparation.