Women's Tennis
- Title:
- Team Physician
- E-Mail:
- jpbramhall@athletics.tamu.edu
J.P. Bramhall, M.D. has been the Director of Sports Medicine since 2001, and is beginning his 29th season as Team Physician and Orthopedic Surgeon for the Department of Athletics in 2019-20. Bramhall was a four-year baseball letterman for the Aggies from 1978-81 for Coach Tom Chandler. Bramhall hit .350 as a junior and .323 as a senior, and received the Wally Moon Most Improved Player Award as a junior. His school record for most walks in a season, set in 1981, still stands.
In 2019, Dr. Bramhall was selected as the SEC Team Physician of the Year by the Sports Medicine Staffs of the SEC.
Dr. Bramhall attended medical school at the Texas A&M College of Medicine in 1985 and completed his Orthopedic Surgery residency in Fort Worth in 1990. He was then selected for the prestigious Orthopedic Sports Medicine Fellowship with James Andrews, MD, in Birmingham, Ala. before returning to College Station as the Aggies Team Physician in 1991.
As Director of Sports Medicine, Dr. Bramhall provides direct supervision of the Athletic Training staff and medical care of the student-athletes. He maintains daily training room clinics, making available a physician for the athletes to care for their medical needs. In addition, he serves as the medical director of the Texas A&M Sports Medicine and Physical Therapy Clinic, and is on the Advisory Board for the Huffines Institute of Sports Medicine and Human Performance. He is an active member of the SEC Team Physicians, the American Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine, and is an active Fellor of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. He also serves as a statutory member of the Texas A&M Lettermen's Board.
In 2013, he was inducted into the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame for his medical contributions to Texas High School Football. In addition to his work at Texas A&M, Dr. Bramhall is in private practice at Central Texas Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, P.A., gaining statewide and national recognition in Orthopedic Sports Medicine.
Dr. Bramhall and his wife, Belle ‘81, are very active in the Bryan/College Station community, where Belle is a member of the Boys and Girls Club Board of Directors. They have two children, Bobby, who was an All-American pitcher at Rice in 2007 and is currently an Assistant AD at Texas A&M, and Kaci ’11, a former 4 -year member of the Diamond Darlings who lives in NYC.
