Training Staff

Gail McMurry

Head Athletic Trainer

Gail Acomb McMurry was born and raised in a small town in upstate New York named Dansville. She attended college at State University College at Cortland with a major in Physical Education where she first learned of the existence of athletic trainers. After undergraduate, she attended graduate school at Alfred University in Alfred NY where she earned a masters in education and was an intern in athletic training. She then attended the University of Virginia for a masters degree in athletic training. She became a certified athletic trainer in 1981.

She was named the North Carolina athletic trainer of the year in 1993 and served as one of the North Carolina athletic trainers in the 1995 Shrine Bowl.( the only female athletic trainer to serve until this year) Gail was honored by her peers in 2005 as an inductee into the North Carolina High School Athletic Association's Trainers' Hall of Fame.

C.E. Jordan was her first job as a full time teacher and professional athletic trainer. She has been here for 24 years and has every intention of finishing her career right here where she started.

As a transported Yankee she loves the south and everbody in the Jordan community.

Claude T. Moorman, III, MD

Director of Duke Sports Medicine

Associate Professor of Surgery (Orthopaedics), Director of the Duke Sports Medicine Center and Head Team Physician for Duke University. Dr. Moorman received his medical degree in 1987 from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. After completing an orthopaedic residency at Duke University Medical Center in 1993 and a sports medicine fellowship at Cornell's Hospital for Special Surgery in New York in 1994, Dr. Moorman returned to Duke University Medical Center, where he was a Clinical Assistant Professor in orthopaedics until 1996. From 1996 to 2001, Dr. Moorman served as the Director of Sports Medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Head Team Physician for the NFL's SuperBowl Champion Baltimore Ravens. Dr. Moorman's clinical interests include shoulder instability and rotator cuff problems, knee cartilage and ligament injury (ACL, PCL, MCL, LCL injuries). Dr. Moorman specializes in minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery. Research interests include multiple ligament knee injury, shoulder instability, and muscle strain injury.

Megan Courtney, MS, ATC-L, CSCS

Physical Therapy/Athletic Trainer
Duke Sports Medicine

Megan graduated from Northwestern University where she worked as a student athletic trainer from 1999-2000. She received her Masters Degree in Sport Administration from the University of Louisville in 2002. After finishing her graduate assistantship with KORT Physical Therapy, she moved to Greensboro, NC where she worked as an Assistant Athletic Trainer at North Carolina A&T State University. In December 2003, she was promoted to Interim Head Athletic Trainer at NC A&T. Megan now works as a clinic assistant at Duke Sports Medicine and will serve as a liaison between Jordan High School athletes and the orthopedic surgeons at Duke Sports Medicine. Megan is a licensed Certified Athletic Trainer and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.

Amir R. Moinfor, MD

Team Orthopaedic Physician
Duke Sports Medicine

Dr. Moinfar is orginally from northern Virginia. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University Virginia. During his undergraduate years, he was also actively involved in orthopaedic research, as he was awarded a Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Training Fellowship. He obtained his medical degree from Georgetown University, and he completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He is currently a fellow in Shoulder Surgery and Sports Medicine at the Duke Sports Medicine Center, under the direction of Dr. Claude T. Moorman, III (with whom he worked at Maryland Medical Center).

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