Sports Medicine Career
Dr. Lehman is licensed in Missouri and California and actively treats track and field athletes worldwide and professional sports athletes from North America. He focuses on rehabilitation of knee, shoulder and elbow injuries. According to the St. Louis Business Journal, Lehman has "worked with pro football, hockey and baseball players as well as numerous Olympic athletes, starting with Jackie Joyner-Kersee."
In Missouri, he's been appointed to Des Peres Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood and Webster Surgical Center.
Dr. Lehman is severed on Board of Directors of the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Youth Foundation, the medical director of Webster Surgery Center and the U.S. Center for Sports Medicine. He is on the Board of Governors for the National Hockey League and is on the St. Louis Sports Commission. His practice encompasses taking care of professional athletes at all levels and all sports, as well as Division college athletes.
Outside of the operating room, Lehman gives interviews to FOX2now St. Louis to explain topics like the "Cinderella Procedure" and the ankle break by Blues forward TJ Oshie. In addition, the St. Louis Business Journal in addition to several media outlets and national newspaper also asks Lehman for his comments on surgical and medical cases, like when former President Bill Clinton had surgery to repair a ripped tendon in his knee or when Walgreens pulled creatine from shelves.
He's been the team physician for the Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning and St. Louis Blues. He has been a consulting physician for UCLA Track & Field and has covered four Olympic Games, as well as seven Track and Field World Championships.
He is currently a part owner of the National Hockey League Florida Panthers.
Lehman came to the St. Louis Blues with former head coach and general manager Mike Keenan. Keenan was fired mid-season in 1997 and Lehman was dismissed as the team doctor at the end of the season, although he still treats a number of Blues players.
In early 1998, Lehman and his business partners, backed by the resources of a competing local hospital chain, made an official offer of $1.2 million a year for the contract to make the U.S. Center for Sports Medicine the Cardinals official medical provider.
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