June 11, 2008

Auburn, Ala. - Auburn Sports Medicine team physician Dr. Michael Goodlett was named the 2008 Southeastern Conference Team Physician of the Year, it was announced by the league at the SEC Sports Medicine Meetings.

For the past 16 years Goodlett has served as the Head Team Physician for all Auburn student-athletes, overseeing all of their daily sports medicine/primary cares needs. In addition, he functions as a liaison between Auburn Athletics and Dr. James Andrews and Dr. Lawrence Lemak, Co-Medical Directors for Auburn student-athletes. Goodlett also serves as an affiliate professor in the Department of Kinesiology. He also sits on the Institutional Review Board for the use of Human Subjects in Research.

A native of Moulton, Ala., Goodlett graduated summa cum laude from the University of North Alabama with a bachelor of science in Chemistry. He earned his medical degree from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile.

He completed his family medicine residency training at the University of Alabama-Birmingham/Baptist Memorial Hospital. He is a certified Team Physician-American College of Sports Medicine and a charter member of the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine.