About the Presenters

Stephanie Aldret, DO, CAQSM, is a graduate of Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tulsa, OK.  She completed an Internship and Residency in Family Medicine at OSU, as well as a Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) in Blacksburg, VA, where she served as one of the team physicians for Virginia Tech and Radford University.  She is board certified in Family Medicine, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, and Sports Medicine and currently serves as the Chair and Associate Professor for Family Medicine, Osteopathic Neuromuscular Medicine and Sports Medicine at VCOM-Louisiana.

Aldret serves as one of the team physicians for the University of Louisiana at Monroe and USA Gymnastics-Trampoline and Tumbling and Parkour.  She has provided medical care for multiple Paralympic Games internationally, Marathons, college athletics, roller derby, rodeo, hockey, as well as multiple trampoline and tumbling competitions in the US and internationally.  She currently serves on the EPIC Advisory Committee (youth sports safety) and as the Medical Director for multiple parish high school Emergency Medical Responder programs throughout Louisiana, increasing the access to certified athletic trainers for those schools. She has always taken a team-based approach to care for her athletes, patients and students.

She and her husband, Randy Aldret, EdD, LAT, ATC, CSCS*D, have made Louisiana their home since 2012. Randy is a Louisiana native and is also a VCOM-Louisiana faculty member. Both are SafeSport trained. Together, they have been committed to youth sports safety, concussion management and the healthcare education of Louisiana students at all levels working to increase health literacy, jobs in medicine and eventually improving the health of Louisiana as a whole.