Dr. Tenforde is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School. He is a sports medicine physician at Spaulding Rehabilitation, a member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system. Dr. Tenforde is the Director of Shockwave Medicine and Running Medicine at the Spaulding National Running Center – one of the only centers in the United States exclusively dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of running-related injuries. Dr. Tenforde has the unique perspective of being both a doctor and a former professional runner who was an All-American at Stanford University where he contributed to three NCAA National Team Championships and later qualified for the Olympic trials. Dr. Tenforde’s research has focused on understanding modifiable risk factors for stress fractures, tendinopathy and other running injuries and interventions to address these injuries including use of extracorporeal shockwave. He has received multiple grants to support his research and his work has resulted in over 170 publications and 100 research abstracts. He also serves as course co-director for the annual Harvard Sports Medicine CME meeting and Senior Editor for PM&R Journal.
