Long-time Syracuse basketball trainer Brad Pike on ACC advisory group

The ACC has named a medical advisory group related to the novel coronavirus pandemic, and Syracuse basketball trainer Brad Pike is a member.

The Atlantic Coast Conference has announced a COVID-19 medical advisory group with one official from each of its 15 academic institutions, and representing the Orange is Brad Pike, who has worked with Syracuse basketball for two decades and is the university’s associate athletics director for sports medicine.

The ACC says that this new group, whose participants are noted below, is tasked with providing “timely updates on the status of, and forecast for, COVID-19 impacts on the higher education community.” The group’s advice will also assist with the league’s discussions on return-to-play options, says the ACC’s press release.

Chaired by Dr. Cameron Wolfe, a member of the infectious-disease division at Duke University Medical Center and an associate professor of medicine, the medical advisory group will center its discussions on the present status of campus operations and what that means for athletics; the forecast for the next phase of re-socialization for the campuses and what that entails for athletics; recommendations to member schools for re-socialization of student-athlete populations; and recommendations to ACC members schools related to competition venues with fans.

ACC Commissioner John Swofford says in the league’s statement that this group “meets weekly and will assist our Presidents and Athletic Directors on the best protocols and procedures for returning to athletics as part of our institutions’ plans.”

Pike, who received his master’s degree in education from Syracuse University in 1991, has since 2000 worked with the men’s basketball team and directed injury rehabilitation for all sports, per his bio on cuse.com.

A veteran sports-medicine professional, Pike became SU’s associate athletics director for sports medicine in October of 2016. He oversees all aspects of the Orange’s Sports Medicine Department and serves as the health care administrator for Syracuse Athletics.

ACC Medical Advisory Group Members
Dr. Robert Nascimento, Medical Director & Team Physician, Boston College
Dr. Bailey Nevels, Coordinator of Psychological Health Services for Student-athletes, Clemson
Dr. Cameron Wolfe, Associate Professor of Medicine – Transplant Infectious Disease, Duke
Dr. Leslie Beitsch, Chair of Behavioral Sciences & Social Medicine, Florida State
Dr. Angelo Galante, Chief Medical Officer, Georgia Tech
Dr. Kevin Gardner, Executive Vice President of Research & Innovation, Louisville
Dr. Erin Kobetz, Professor of Medicine & Public Health Services, Miami
Dr. Mario Ciocca, Director of Sports Medicine, North Carolina
Dr. Julie Casani, Director & Medical Director of Student Health Services, N.C. State
Dr. Matt Leiszler, Team Physician, Notre Dame
Dr. Art Levine, Senior Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences & School of Medicine, Pittsburgh
Brad Pike, Associate Athletics Director for Sports Medicine, Syracuse
Dr. John MacKnight, Medical Director for Sports Medicine, Virginia
Dr. Mark Rogers, Chief Medical Officer, Team Physician, Virginia Tech
Murphy Grant Sr., Associate Athletic Director, Athletics Health Care Administrator, Wake Forest