Margot Putukian, MD

Team Physician, US Women’s National Soccer

Team Venue Medical Officer, Philadelphia, FIFA World Cup

Dr. Putukian board certified in Internal Medicine and has maintained subspecialty certification in Sports Medicine.  She is the former Director of Athletic Medicine/Head Team Physician at Princeton University (2004-2021). She started with MLS in 2014, and in 2018 took the role as Chief Medical Officer, which she held until December of 2025.

Dr. Putukian serves as a Team Physician for US Soccer (WNT, U-23’s, U-20’s).  She has been a Team Physician for the US Men’s National Lacrosse team (2010-2018), and was a volunteer physician for the USOPC at the Beijing (2022) and Paris (2024) Olympics.

Dr. Putukian is a charter member of the AMSSM serving as President in 2004-2005.  She serves on the Board for the Concussion in Sport Group (CISG) and serves on several committees: NFL General Medical, NFL Head Neck & Spine, FA Research Task Force, IOC Mental Health (MH) Working Group and USOPC MH Task Force.  She has previously chaired the USA Lacrosse Sports Science/Safety as well as the ACSM Clinical Sports Medicine Leadership Committees.

She has been an invited participant for the CISG and IOC Advanced Team Physician Conferences and IOC MH Diploma course. Her areas of interest in sports medicine include concussion, cardiovascular health, mental healthand soccer/football medicine. She is a co-author on several Team Physician Consensus Statements, active in clinical research, an editor for the Netter’s Sports Medicine textbook, and has >190 peer-reviewed publications, >70 book chapters and >280 presentations on a variety of sports medicine topics.