VCOM Louisiana Research Day Program Book 2024

Keynote Speaker

Albert J. Kozar, DO, FAOASM, R-MSK Professor for Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Sport Medicine; Director of the ONMM Residency VCOM

Albert J. Kozar, DO, FAOASM, R-MSK, is the HCA/VCOM ONMM3 residency director and professor for OMM and Sports Medicine at VCOM-Virginia. He is a fellow of American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine and is board certified in ONMM, Sports Medicine and Family Medicine. Dr. Kozar is a registered musculoskeletal sonographer, and since coming to VCOM-Virginia, he has developed multiple research lines looking at tendonopathy, TLF in LBP and visceral motion with OMT. Dr. Kozar was honored as the 2022 VCOM Researcher of the Year for VCOM-Virginia. Dr. Kozar’s interests lie in neuromuscular control of functional rehabilitative approaches, diagnostic and therapeutic uses of musculoskeletal ultrasound, OMT and regenerative medicine therapies. He is a regular national lecturer for multiple academies on these topics.

Prior to joining VCOM-Virginia in the fall of 2015, he was in private practice in Avon, Connecticut, was a team physician for The University of Hartford, Bloomfield High School, and covered multiple professional sporting events nationally.

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