Dr. Kenneth C. Vitale is a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician specializing in sports medicine. He serves as a professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine, where he instructs medical students, residents, and fellows. Dr. Vitale is co-director of the Lifestyle & Exercise Medicine course elective and co-chair of the UCSD Institute for Public Health's Lifestyle, Wellbeing & Health Behavior Sub-Group Committee. He has given numerous lectures nationally and internationally on sports medicine, nutrition, exercise physiology, orthopedics, and rehabilitation. Dr. Vitale is an active member of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine.