Sports Medicine Faculty
Program Director - John Shelton, MD, CAQ Dr. Shelton graduated from East Carolina University with a B.S. in Biology in 1976 followed by medical education at Bowman Gray School of Medicine/Wake Forest University in 1980. He completed University of Florida Family Medicine Residency receiving the resident teacher of the year award. Dr. Shelton's practice experience includes 3 years of Emergency Medicine practice in Central Florida followed by 3 years of private Family Medicine practice in Cary, NC.
In 1989, he joined the faculty at Halifax Family Medicine Residency. The Halifax Sports Medicine Fellowship Program, opened as the first accredited community hospital Sports Medicine Fellowship in 1997 with Dr. Shelton as Program Director. He remains active as an FSU Clinical Assistant Professor teaching medical students from the FSU Daytona Beach Campus, residents and Sports Medicine fellows. He has been a Team physician for middle, high school, college and professional teams, actively networking with local Athletic Trainers. He continues to evaluate elite athletes including ultra-marathon cycling and coverage of the Iron Man Hawaii. He is a member of the AMSSM Program Directors Committee and In-Training Exam committee. In addition to sports medicine, Dr. Shelton's other areas of expertise include procedural Family Medicine including stress testing, skin procedures and compartment pressure measurement in athletes. Being a good role model, his primary physical activity remains road bicycling, averaging 50- 75 miles weekly.
Richard Branoff, MD, CAQ Originally from Baltimore Maryland, Dr. Branoff received his B.S. from the University of Maryland. He subsequently received a M.S. from Georgetown University, where he also attended medical school. His residency training was at the Halifax Health Family Medicine Residency Program. Formerly, Dr. Branoff was the Program Director of the Halifax Health Family Medicine Residency Program from 1991 through 1999. He has been a full time faculty member at the Halifax Health Family Medicine Residency Program since 1986. As FMRP Program Director, Dr. Branoff recognized the importance of Sports Medicine training and achieved his CAQ/SM. He spearheaded the development of a fellowship, promoted Dr. Shelton as Program Director and has subsequently served as a full time faculty member. He has been an active participant in the training of 12 primary care sports medicine physicians as of 2008. Team Physician duties include the Bethune Cookman University Wildcats for the past 6 years, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Eagles, the Seabreeze High School Sandcrabs, and the Daytona Thunder of the Arena 2 Football League. Notable event coverage activities include the Women's World Weightlifting Championships, and 2 National Tae Kwon Do Championships, the Daytona 500, and the NAIA National Soccer Championships for the past 5 years. His professional interests include wilderness medicine, ETT and procedures including soft tissue injections and tissue compartment manometry. He remains an active backpacker and cyclist.
Tom Terrell, MD, M.Phil., CAQ Dr. Terrell attended Jacksonville University on a Division I basketball scholarship and played on an NCAA tournament team. He obtained a B.A. in Biology. After receiving a Rotary Graduate Scholarship, Dr. Terrell studied at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge England, obtaining a Master of Philosophy in Biological Anthropology. While at Cambridge, he was a player coach on the University basketball team. His medical training was completed at Emory University School of Medicine and MAHEC Family Medicine Residency in Asheville, NC. In addition, he attended the primary care sports medicine fellowship training at Michigan State University, working closely with Dr David Hough caring for the Spartans' football, women's soccer, gymnastics, wrestling, volleyball, ice hockey, and basketball teams.
Dr. Terrell has had a wealth of valuable experiences in different clinical sports medicine settings. Firstly, he worked with Resurgens Orthopedics (Atlanta, GA), the largest orthopedic provider in Georgia, and the Georgia Tech volleyball team. He has also served as a faculty member and a team physician at the University of Maryland and the University of South Carolina-USC (Columbia, SC). In Maryland, he worked with the University of Maryland College Park, with UMBC, Coppin State College, and the Baltimore Ravens NFL team. One of his real career highlights was spending two weeks at Lake Placid, NY in the US Olympic Committee Physician Volunteer program in 1999, complementing his previous work at the 1996 Olympic Games Polyclinic. During his tenure at USC, their athletic programs finished 11th in the Division I Sears Cup for all sports program success and Coach Lou Holtz engineered the greatest turnaround in SEC football history. Team physician duties included assisting with football, men's and women's soccer, women's basketball (elite 8 in 2002), baseball, track and field and other sports. Dr. Terrell comes to Halifax Health sports medicine fellowship from East Carolina University School of Medicine in Greenville, NC where he worked with several high schools and received an award from the medical students for outstanding service to the Greenville Homeless Shelter clinic.
His personal interests include Church activities, basketball, medical missions, hiking, and spending quality time with family and friends. Dr. Terrell has obtained prior grant funding on the issue of "
Genetic Risk Factors for Concussion in Athletes" and has published in several journals, including the Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, on this topic. He is on the Research Committee of the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine. He is excited to be in Daytona Beach and hopes to one day catch John Shelton on a bicycle.
Dr. Terrell's PublicationsDr. Terrell on "Genetic Risk Factors for Concussion in Athletes"
