Senior Vice President and Chief of Medical Affairs
National Basketball Association
Dr. Jace Provo oversees health care-related programs for the NBA, WNBA, and NBA Development League, designing and executing coverage for all events domestically and internationally, including NBA All-Star, Europe Live, China Games, Basketball without Borders, and the NBA Draft. Dr. Provo is the medical director for Basketball Operations, overseeing the NBA Basketball Operations health care policies and procedures, Human Resources, and Legal, and supervising the health care policies for front-office employees and players in all three leagues. He also is a key manager of the medical testing component of the NBA Draft Combine.

Dr. Provo's other projects include developing the league’s concussion policy and designing, introducing, and executing the player electronic medical record and swine flu response manual. He also works actively with the league’s business development group to establish partnerships with leading health care companies, including SonoSite, an international leader in the production of portable musculoskeletal ultrasound equipment. In 2011, he coordinated the league’s first musculoskeletal ultrasound course for NBA team physicians at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago.

He has worked as both a consultant and an employee for the NBA since shortly after the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.

Board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Provo is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and is a member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.

Dr. Provo holds a master of health care management from Harvard, a fellowship in sports medicine from Hofstra Northshore/LIJ, a residency in emergency medicine from the University of Chicago, an M.D. from the University of Florida College of Medicine, and a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University.

He practices Sports Medicine at Sports & Orthopedic Center in Boca Raton, Fla.

4/2012