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Pirates announce new medical team leader

Brubaker expected to start as Pirates host the Mets Pittsburgh Pirates' Wilmer Difo, center, celebrates with John Nogowski, left, and Kevin Newman (27) after hitting a three-run homer run off New York Mets relief pitcher Seth Lugo during the eighth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Saturday, July 17, 2021. The Pirates won 9-7. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) (Gene J. Puskar/AP)
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PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Pirates and Allegheny Health Network announced Tuesday that Dr. Todd Franco would be lead team physician, succeeding Dr. Patrick DeMeo who will move to a guiding role. And another team physician, Dr. Edward Snell, will become medical director of AHN Sports Performance.

DeMeo, who is a well-known orthopaedic surgeon and Institute Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at AHN, has been medical director for the Pittsburgh Pirates since 2002. He’ll remain in a guidance role but the lead doctor for the team will be Franco, who has been a Pirates team physician and a sports medicine specialist and physiatrist at Allegheny Health Network.

Read more in the Pittsburgh Business Times.

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