Biography

James C. Puffer, MD is currently a Professor Emeritus of Clinical Family Medicine in the Division of Sports Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), located in Lexington, Kentucky, from 2003-2018. Dr. Puffer is an internationally recognized expert in sports medicine, having served as Team Physician for the 1984 United States Winter Olympic Team and Head Team Physician for the 1988 United States Summer Olympic Team. He served as Team Physician for the UCLA Department of Intercollegiate Athletics for over twenty years before assuming his position at the ABFM, and has subsequently returned to UCLA on faculty recall status where he has resumed responsibilities as a team physician in the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.

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