Mary E Caldwell, DO

Biography

Dr. Mary Caldwell joined VCU Health in the fall of 2017 and treats all primary care sports medicine injuries of the shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles, as well as system based complications in athletes like skin complications and diabetes during exercise. She specializes in treating female athletes (exercise during pregnancy and post-partum exercise), adaptive sports and adaptive athletes (for example, wheelchair athletes and amputee athletes). She also has a focus in: 

• Chronic exertional leg pain in the athlete
• Hip pain in the athlete and femoral acetabular impingement
• Dance medicine (including all types of dance)
• Performance medicine (including actors/artists/musicians)
• Running medicine (including running injuries, gait analysis)
• Ski medicine
• Sports concussion (age 12 and up)
• Women’s health and mental well being

Dr. Caldwell has worked with multiple professional teams, including the Joffrey Ballet, Washington Wizards, Washington Mystics and the Washington Spirit. She has covered multiple marathons including the Chicago Marathon and Richmond Marathon. Additionally, Dr. Caldwell has served as Team Physician for George Washington University Athletics and currently serves as Team Physician for Longwood University Athletics. She has also spent time in Park City, Utah as a Ski Medicine Physician. 

Dr. Caldwell completed medical school at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2012. She completed her residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (former Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) Northwestern University/Feinberg School of Medicine in 2016, and her fellowship in Sports Medicine in 2017 with MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. She is dual board certified in PM&R and Sports Medicine. 

Dr. Caldwell is published in multiple topics, most recently with injury epidemiology in amputee athletes and takes great pride in caring for adaptive athletes. She was a Division I NCAA Collegiate Middle Distance Runner for Lafayette College and is very active outdoors along with her husband, daughter and their two dogs.

Professional affiliations

• American Medical Society for Sports Medicine
• American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Professional activity/Team Coverage

• Team Physician Longwood University
• Team Physician Sportable Adaptive Teams (Adaptive Sports Richmond)
• Fellow Physician for the Washington Mystics, Washington, DC:  July 2016-August 2017
• Fellow Physician for the Washington Spirit, Washington, DC: July 2016-August 2017
• Fellow Physician for the Washington Wizards, Washington, DC: July 2016-August 2017
• Ski Medicine Physician, Park City, Utah: December 2016-Jan 2017.
• Team Physician for George Washington University Athletics, Washington, DC: July 2016-August 2017
• Team Physician for West Springfield High School, West Springfield, VA: July 2016-August 2017
• Assisting Team Physician for Stevenson University Athletics, Baltimore, MD:  July 2016-August 2017
• West Point Athletics Physicals, West Point, NY: July 2016-August 2017
• Marymount Athletics Physicals, Arlington, VA: July 2016-August 2017
• Baltimore Running Festival: October 2016
• Army 10 Miler: 2016
• Joffrey Ballet, Chicago, IL:  July 2013-June 2016
• Chicago Area Runners Association 10 Miler. Chicago, IL:  July 2013-June 2016
• Bank of America Chicago Marathon. Chicago, IL: July 2013-June 2016
• RIC Military Adaptive Sports Camp, Chicago, IL: July 2013-June 2016

Honors and awards

• Walter E. Heller Chief Resident Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine 2015-2016
• Sarah Baskin Award for Excellence in Research Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, June 2016
• Sigma Sigma Phi Honors Society 2011-2012
• NCAA  Division I and Lafayette College Track and Field Varsity Letter Member 2008-2012