Orthopedic Surgeon
"Dr. Marshall has an extensive sports background. A native of Scotia, New York in the Adirondacks, he played football, basketball and tennis at Vermont Academy, and later at Cornell University lettered in basketball, rugby and boxing and was also a ski racer. With a degree in veterinary medicine, Dr. Marshall worked with thoroughbred racehorses before he decided to return to college for a degree in medicine which he obtained at Albany Medical College, later doing post-graduate training in surgery in Boston and at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
He now heads the Department of Sports Medicine at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, is the orthopedic consultant for the 35,000 students in the New York City Public School Athletic League as well as the orthopedic consultant for the Cornell University Athletic Department, the United States Ski Team and the New York Nets of the NBA as well as the Giants. Dr. Marshall is also an Associate Professor of Surgery at Cornell Medical College, co-chairman of the New York State Medical Society's Committee on Sports Medicine and has authored some 45 articles on sports medicine topics.
Dr. Marshall has appeared frequently on television discussing subjects related to sports injuries and has won numerous service awards."
-1977 New York Giants Media Guide
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