Eric Coris, M.D.

Eric Coris, MD, is one of the founding members of the Sports Medicine Institute and the current director of outreach. He also serves as the head medical team physician for the Department of Athletics at the University of South Florida, and is an associate professor of family medicine, and orthopaedics and sports medicine. He is board certified in both family medicine and sport medicine. Dr. Coris is also the current director of the sports medicine division in The Department of Family medicine.

Dr. Coris has developed interdisciplinary sports medicine research initiatives in heat illness, female athlete triad, sudden cardiac death in athletes, and concussions. He has been awarded two NFL Charities grants to study early detection and prevention of heat-related illness in college football players, including how risk factors relate to the amount of fluid lost during practice. He has also been awarded a National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety research grant to study the effects of heat on athletes in the heat laboratory, and a Proctor and Gamble research grant in evaluation of the female athlete triad of osteoporosis, disordered eating, and hormonal changes. Dr. Coris has published and presented nationally for the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, as well as had peer-reviewed journal articles published in the American Family Physician, Orthopedics, The American Journal of Sports Medicine, The Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, The Southern Medicine Journal, Sports Medicine, The Journal of Sports Rehabilitation, and has published several book chapters.

In addition to seeing patients at the USF sports medicine clinic, the USF family medicine clinic, and volunteering his comprehensive medical services to the USF Bulls athletes, Eric Coris is also involved in teaching PREPARE. PREPARE is an educational seminar on primary care sports medicine that is offered to coaches and parents in the community. Dr. Coris also spends time in international medical mission work, primarily in Central and South America.

Dr. Coris received his MD degree from the USF College of Medicine in 1996. He completed the St. Vincent's Family Medicine Residency Program in Jacksonville, as well as one of the top sports medicine fellowship programs in the country at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.

Dr. Coris joined the USF College of Medicine in 2001. He is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Florida Academy of Family Physicians, The Hillsborough County Medical Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and its Program Planning Committee as well as its Education Committee, and the USA Football Age and Weight Task Force.

Dr. Coris also serves the University as an Executive Management Committee Member, Serving on the Board of Directors, and as a member of the Financial Planning Committee.

Dr. Coris is married and has 5 children, and enjoys spending time with his family, coaching athletics, camping, hiking, volunteering at his church, and playing drums for his church worship ministry.