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Sports Pharmacy Network Education

Sports Pharmacy Certificate Program

Build practical expertise at the intersection of pharmacotherapy, athlete health, nutrition, anti-doping, performance, and sports medicine.

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11 Expert-Led Lectures • 4 Core Modules • On-Demand Learning
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11 Expert-Led Lectures
04 Focused Modules
360° View of Athlete Care
100% Performance Focused
BEYOND TRADITIONAL PHARMACY

Learn where medication expertise meets human performance.

Athletes present unique clinical challenges. Medication selection, dietary supplements, hydration, recovery, anti-doping regulations, mental health, injury management, biomarkers, and performance data can all intersect in a single patient.

The Sports Pharmacy Certificate Program brings these areas together through an interdisciplinary curriculum designed to help healthcare professionals think more comprehensively about athlete care.

COURSE CURRICULUM

Explore every lecture.

Select a lecture to see what you'll learn and meet the expert leading the session.

01
MODULE ONE

Sports Pharmacy Essentials

3 Lectures
01
FOUNDATIONS

Sports Pharmacy Practice

Brandon Welch, PharmD
Lecture Overview

An introduction to the rapidly expanding field of clinical sports pharmacy and the pharmacist's role in optimizing the health, safety, and performance of athletes. Explore medication management, supplements, interdisciplinary collaboration, anti-doping, chronic disease management, adaptive sports, research, and emerging career opportunities.

What You'll Learn
  • Define the practice of clinical sports pharmacy.
  • Describe the pharmacist's role on the sports medicine team.
  • Identify medication and supplement considerations in athletes.
  • Evaluate safety and regulatory risks in sport-related pharmacotherapy.
  • Recognize emerging trends shaping sports pharmacy.
Brandon Welch, PharmD
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Brandon Welch, PharmD

President of SportPharm Inc. and Founder of the Sports Pharmacy Network. Dr. Welch has experience in clinical sports pharmacy and has worked with professional and collegiate sports organizations.

02
ANTI-DOPING

Clean Sport and Anti-Doping

Nilhan Uzman, Pharm., MSc.
Lecture Overview

Examine the principles, policies, and clinical responsibilities involved in protecting clean sport. Topics include WADA, anti-doping rule violations, prohibited substances, Therapeutic Use Exemptions, supplements, medication management, and modern drug testing procedures.

What You'll Learn
  • Explain clean sport principles and the WADA Code.
  • Navigate the WADA Prohibited List.
  • Understand Therapeutic Use Exemptions and medication management.
  • Evaluate medications and supplements using anti-doping resources.
  • Recognize modern drug-testing approaches.
Nilhan Uzman, Pharm., MSc.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Nilhan Uzman, Pharm., MSc.

Sports pharmacist, IOC Qualified Sports Pharmacist, and consultant to national and international sports federations with expertise in athlete safety, supplements, injury prevention, and anti-doping.

03
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Branding and Marketing

Jessie Tobin, MA, BA
Lecture Overview

Learn how strong branding, strategic positioning, consistent messaging, and audience-focused communication can build professional credibility and help grow a sports pharmacy practice or organization.

What You'll Learn
  • Identify the core components of a strong brand.
  • Assess brand positioning and messaging.
  • Differentiate branding from marketing.
  • Select effective communication channels.
  • Create an actionable marketing improvement.
Jessie Tobin, MA, BA
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Jessie Tobin, MA, BA

Director of Marketing and Communications for SportPharm and Marketing Manager for the Sports Pharmacy Network, specializing in branding, digital marketing, communications, and audience engagement.

02
MODULE TWO

Nutrition & Supplements

2 Lectures
04
SPORTS NUTRITION

Sports Nutrition and Hydration

Sean Casey, RD, CSCS
Lecture Overview

Explore evidence-based strategies for fueling athletic performance through nutrition and hydration, including energy availability, macronutrients, micronutrients, hydration assessment, recovery, and pre-, intra-, and post-exercise fueling.

What You'll Learn
  • Develop evidence-informed fueling strategies.
  • Evaluate energy and macronutrient requirements.
  • Assess hydration status and individualize hydration plans.
  • Identify micronutrient concerns in athletes.
  • Build practical exercise fueling recommendations.
Sean Casey, RD, CSCS
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Sean Casey, RD, CSCS

Registered dietitian, movement specialist, health coach, and Chief Science Officer of the Sports Pharmacy Network with more than 20 years of experience in performance and nutrition.

05
ERGOGENIC AIDS

Performance Enhancing Supplements

Korey Van Wyk, MS, CSCS, Pn2
Lecture Overview

Take an evidence-based look at common performance supplements, including creatine, caffeine, beta-alanine, and dietary nitrates, with practical discussion of dosing, timing, safety, product quality, third-party certification, and drug-supplement interactions.

What You'll Learn
  • Understand dietary supplement regulation under DSHEA.
  • Compare major performance-enhancing supplements.
  • Apply evidence-based dosing and timing strategies.
  • Assess product quality and third-party certifications.
  • Identify contraindications and drug-supplement interactions.
Korey Van Wyk, MS, CSCS, Pn2
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Korey Van Wyk, MS, CSCS, Pn2

Exercise science and nutrition educator, editor, instructor, medical reviewer, and interdisciplinary conference presenter.

03
MODULE THREE

Performance, Assessment & Monitoring

3 Lectures
06
WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY

Understanding Wearable Data

Mike T. Nelson, PhD, CSCS, CISSN
Lecture Overview

Learn how to interpret wearable-derived metrics such as heart rate, HRV, respiratory rate, and other physiological markers while understanding device accuracy, limitations, context, trends, and their appropriate place in athlete care.

What You'll Learn
  • Separate trend-monitoring metrics from clinical metrics.
  • Evaluate wearable accuracy and limitations.
  • Interpret data in the context of recovery, illness, and stress.
  • Compare wearable technologies and biomarkers.
  • Responsibly integrate wearable data into athlete assessment.
Mike T. Nelson, PhD, CSCS, CISSN
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Mike T. Nelson, PhD, CSCS, CISSN

Exercise physiologist, educator, and performance coach whose expertise spans metabolic flexibility, recovery, performance physiology, biomechanics, and wearable technology.

07
BIOMARKERS

Performance-Based Lab Testing: Bridging Biomarkers and Performance

Pratik Patel, MS, RD, CSCS
Lecture Overview

Explore how bloodwork, VOâ‚‚max, lactate testing, HRV, heart-rate recovery, wearable metrics, and field testing can be combined to assess athlete readiness and uncover performance limitations.

What You'll Learn
  • Connect physiological systems with performance and recovery.
  • Interpret biomarkers through a performance framework.
  • Combine lab data with field-based performance measures.
  • Design individualized monitoring strategies.
  • Develop evidence-based interventions within professional scope.
Pratik Patel, MS, RD, CSCS
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Pratik Patel, MS, RD, CSCS

Health and performance coach and advisor with more than two decades of experience, including work in elite professional and collegiate sport.

08
PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGY

Sport & Performance Psychology

Muhammad Deen, MS

Lecture Overview

Explore the foundations of sport and performance psychology and the mental skills that support peak performance. Learn practical strategies involving self-talk, visualization, arousal regulation, goal setting, and concentration to help athletes build confidence, manage pressure, and perform at their best.

What You'll Learn
  • Understand the fundamental principles of sport and performance psychology and their application to athletic performance.
  • Describe the five core mental skills—self-talk, visualization, arousal regulation, meaningful goal setting, and focal concentration— and their role in optimizing performance.
  • Differentiate effective psychological strategies that promote confidence, resilience, focus, and performance under pressure.
  • Apply evidence-based sport psychology techniques to enhance performance, manage competitive stress, and improve athlete well-being.
  • Integrate sport and performance psychology principles into everyday training, competition, and clinical practice to support long-term athletic success.
Muhammad Deen, MS
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Muhammad Deen, MS

Sport and performance psychology consultant with experience supporting athletes from developmental through Olympic levels. Muhammad has worked across 17 sports and led an Olympic performance program for the Tokyo 2021 Games, while also applying performance psychology principles in corporate and other high-performance settings.

04
MODULE FOUR

Select Clinical Topics

3 Lectures
09
SPORTS MEDICINE

Pain Management and Injuries

Brandon K. Welch, PharmD
Lecture Overview

Review common sports injuries from initial inflammation through rehabilitation and return to play, including injury pathophysiology, healing, pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management, and emerging regenerative therapies.

What You'll Learn
  • Classify common sports injuries.
  • Understand musculoskeletal injury and tissue healing.
  • Evaluate sprains, strains, fractures, contusions, and concussions.
  • Compare pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain management.
  • Evaluate emerging orthobiologic therapies.
Brandon K. Welch, PharmD
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Brandon K. Welch, PharmD

Founder of the Sports Pharmacy Network and President of SportPharm, with professional interests including anti-doping, precision medicine, sports nutrition, and athlete medication management.

10
SIDELINE CARE

Emergency Medications in Athletes

Katie Evenson, MSAT, LAT, ATC
Lecture Overview

Apply emergency pharmacology to realistic athletic scenarios, including glucose, glucagon, naloxone, aspirin, oxygen, epinephrine, albuterol, and nitroglycerin while considering interdisciplinary roles and anti-doping requirements.

What You'll Learn
  • Review indications and routes for common emergency medications.
  • Identify medications typically available in athletic settings.
  • Collaborate effectively with athletic trainers.
  • Apply emergency pharmacology to sideline cases.
  • Evaluate WADA TUE considerations in emergencies.
Katie Evenson, MSAT, LAT, ATC
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Katie Evenson, MSAT, LAT, ATC

Athletic Trainer at Oceanside Collegiate Academy with experience across football, volleyball, and high-school athletic settings.

11
MENTAL HEALTH

A Sports Pharmacist's Guide to Antidepressants

Alexis Shook, PharmD
Lecture Overview

Explore antidepressant pharmacology through an athlete-focused lens, including SSRIs, SNRIs, alternative therapies, adverse effects, clinical pearls, medication selection, counseling, and athlete-specific patient cases.

What You'll Learn
  • Review mechanisms and adverse effects of SSRIs and SNRIs.
  • Differentiate commonly used antidepressants.
  • Identify patient-specific considerations for therapy selection.
  • Recognize adverse effects particularly relevant to athletes.
  • Apply pharmacotherapy principles to athlete-specific cases.
Alexis Shook, PharmD
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Alexis Shook, PharmD

Alexis Shook, PharmD is a Clinical Primary Care Ambulatory Care Pharmacist with Novant Health and Assistant Adjunct Professor for the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She attended undergraduate studies at UNC–Chapel Hill and pharmacy school at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

Alexis completed both the PGY1 Community-based Pharmacy Residency Program and Community-based Mental Health Fellowship through UNC at the Campus Health site before remaining in a full-time position. Her clinical interests include mental health, asthma, sports medicine, and contraception.

BUILT DIFFERENT

Sports medicine is interdisciplinary.
Your education should be too.

01

Evidence Meets Application

Move beyond memorizing concepts and learn how evidence translates into decisions affecting real athletes.

02

Think Beyond Medication

Develop a broader understanding of nutrition, supplementation, recovery, injury management, monitoring, and human performance.

03

Learn From the Team

Gain perspective from pharmacists, dietitians, performance professionals, athletic trainers, and other experts working across sport.

04

Protect Athlete Health

Better understand supplement safety, medication risk, anti-doping regulations, emergency care, and athlete-specific considerations.

MEMBER BENEFIT

Annual members save 15% on the course.

Sports Pharmacy Network annual members receive 15% off enrollment in the Sports Pharmacy Certificate Program, along with access to additional member benefits, resources, and opportunities throughout the year.

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WHO IT'S FOR

Built for professionals who care about athlete performance.

Whether you're already working with athletes or exploring the field, this program provides a multidisciplinary foundation for understanding modern sports pharmacy practice.

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01 Pharmacists
02 Pharmacy Students
03 Athletic Trainers
04 Dietitians
05 Sports Medicine Professionals
06 Allied Healthcare Professionals
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The future of athlete care is interdisciplinary.

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