Team Physician
Dr. Kevin Elder enters his first season with the Buccaneers as team physician. Dr. Elder is currently Board Certified in Family Practice with Certificate of Added Qualifications in Sports Medicine and has been recognized with a Fellow designation by the American Academy of Family Physicians. He practices as a partner of the HealthPoint Medical Group in South Tampa. Additionally, Dr. Elder is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine for the University of South Florida, teaching medical students and residents while also serving as a voluntary faculty preceptor for the Bayfront Hospital and Morton Plant Mease Family Practice residencies' primary care sports medicine fellowship programs.
His training in sports medicine encompassed the care of athletes of various levels, as well as the treatment of common overuse injuries, fracture casting and management, joint injections and the treatment of many non-operative orthopedic sports medicine problems. Dr. Elder’s past experience includes providing medical coverage or team physician responsibilities for professional football, boxing, volleyball, soccer, baseball and hockey teams.
His extensive sports medicine training has led him to volunteer for several community sports medicine events and races in Tampa Bay including volunteering as a team physician for Tampa Catholic High School for seven years.
Dr. Elder has published book chapters related to exercise stress testing, including a recent chapter in Exercise Testing for Primary Care and Sports Medicine Physicians. He has also given numerous lectures on sports medicine topics, including wilderness medicine.
Dr. Elder received his undergraduate degree at The Ohio State University and earned his Doctor of Medicine from the Medical University of Ohio/University of Toledo. He served his Family Practice Residency, as well as his Sports Medicine Fellowship, at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Dr. Elder is married to Stephanie and the couple has three children, Emma, Liam and Lily.
