Kathy Nguyen
Dr. Kathy Nguyen (Tu Dan Nguyen, MD, CAQSM) is a dual board-certified family and sports medicine physician at Memorial Hermann in Houston, serving as Chief Medical Officer of the Houston Dash and a team physician for the Houston Dynamo, LOVB Houston, and the NWSL's medical advisory team.
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Oct 9, 2026
Kathy NguyenGUEST
... all have the basic vitals, our blood pressure, our heart rate, but then, you know, who are they mentally and physically? So all of that really combines and shapes just medicine in general.
Kathy NguyenGUEST
Um, the, the typical thought of sports medicine is we only deal with injuries or muscles or, uh, concussions, but if you really look at the athlete as a whole, it's family medicine.
Kathy NguyenGUEST
And I think having a strong core in family medicine is so helpful for me as a sports medicine doctor.
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Kathy NguyenGUEST
Um, and those are the things that I have to learn is when I get, um, an international player where they have different expectations from their medical team, it's meeting them where they're at.
Kathy NguyenGUEST
And so I practice how I practice here in the States, and, you know, we have our standards of care, and sometimes we go abroad, and there's different standards of care, whether they may have, you know, a lot of, especially in soccer, those female leagues abroad might have maybe some more resources-