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Pirates announce new medical team leader

By Paul J. Gough – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

Brubaker expected to start as Pirates host the Mets Pittsburgh Pirates' Wilmer Difo, center, celebrates with John Nogowski, left, and Kevin Newman (27) after hitting a three-run homer run off New York Mets relief pitcher Seth Lugo during the eighth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Saturday, July 17, 2021. The Pirates won 9-7. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

By Paul J. Gough – Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Pirates and Allegheny Health Network announced Tuesday that Dr. Todd Franco would be lead team physician, succeeding Dr. Patrick DeMeo who will move to a guiding role. And another team physician, Dr. Edward Snell, will become medical director of AHN Sports Performance.

DeMeo, who is a well-known orthopaedic surgeon and Institute Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at AHN, has been medical director for the Pittsburgh Pirates since 2002. He’ll remain in a guidance role but the lead doctor for the team will be Franco, who has been a Pirates team physician and a sports medicine specialist and physiatrist at Allegheny Health Network.

Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times.

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