For many Steelers fans, a player’s injury at training camp in August was cause for concern. For Warren Austin, a third-year medical student and 2019 Pitt graduate, each injury also represented a learning opportunity.
Austin, who grew up in Carrick, spent August in a clinical rotation with the team as the first local participant in the NFL’s Sports Medicine Pipeline Program, developed to encourage medical students to consider careers in sports medicine.
After learning of the program, Austin consulted his mentor, MaCalus V. Hogan, the David Silver Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and chair of that department, who is also a foot and ankle consultant to the Steelers.