Dr. James Borchers is the President and CEO of the U.S. Council for Athletes’ Health, as well as the Chief Medical Officer for the Big Ten Conference, physician and Director for the Division of Sports Medicine at the Wexner Medical Center, and a Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Sports Medicine at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He previously spent 18 years as a team physician for the Ohio State Athletics Department, including five as the head team physician and eight working with the football program.

A former student-athlete, he played football at Ohio State while earning his undergraduate degree in Chemistry, before going on to earn his MD from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and his Master of Public Health from Ohio State. He is board-certified in both family medicine and sports medicine and has been named one of the region’s top doctors, as well as one of the Best Doctors in America.