CowboyAAsATs Tashard Choice to speak to students March 7

March 3, 2011

Dallas Cowboy Tashard Choice will speak to UNT Health Science Center students, faculty and staff about physical medicine and rehabilitation on March 7. The event, sponsored by the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine’s American Osteopathic College of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Club, will be from noon to 1 p.m. in the Medical Education and Training Building’s auditorium.

Choice, who has endured multiple injuries and undergone rehabilitation throughout his college and professional football career, will discuss his experiences with sports rehabilitation. He will answer questions after the presentation. Omar Selod, DO, PA, local physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, and many Health Science Center faculty will be available for questions as well.

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