COLUMBIA (USC) -- Jeffery  Team Physician and Medical Director for the University of South Carolina Athletic Department is headed to the NFL combine in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The combine begins this Thursday, February 24th. Dr. Guy will be spending three days in Indianapolis participating in education meetings, group discussions and observing the physicals performed on the athletes. Joining Dr. Guy will be Dr. Rudolph Hoellrich, from the University of Oregon.

This newly created program invites two team physicians from NCAA Division I schools to the annual NFL combine in Indianapolis. The NFL physician’s society is focusing on conferences and schools that tend to have players represented at the combine.

The goals of the program are:
- foster a good, working relationship between college and team physicians and the
NFL team physicians
- to co-educate each other regarding sports-related medical and orthopaedic issues
in college and the NFL
- to give college team physicians the perspective on what happens at the combines
- how to best answer questions and address issues at their institutions related to the
preparation for the combine

The NFL combine will take place Thursday, February 24th thru Saturday, February 26th in Indianapolis, Indiana.