Dr. Jim|James Stray-Gundersen, M.D.

Dr. Stray-Gundersen works in Sports Medicine, in Frisco, Texas, where he has founded The SG Alter-G Center for Maximal Performance, Nutrition, and Recovery, utilizing advanced technology in the Alter-G Treadmill (www.Alter-G.com). Over the past 30 years, his areas of expertise, in a number of sports dedicated to a variety of "populations," are maximal athletic performance, fitness and wellness guidelines, training and recovery, nutrition, altitude training and acclimatization (co-authored the award winning study Live High/Train Low), and anti-doping -- developed The SAFE Program -- Safe And Fair Events, implemented in 2002 Olympic Games, considered by many as the most aggressive program to detect and deter doping in sport. He has served on two United States Olympic Teams as well as one Norwegian Olympic Team, and now consults for the Canadian National Team. He has been directly involved with and attended over 15 World Championship events in various sports.

Dr. Stray-Gundersen was part of the D2 Space Shuttle Mission directed by NASA where he worked directly with the astronaut team, and serves on the FIFA Executive Committee to establish Altitude Recommendations. He works directly with Alberto Salazar and The Nike Oregon Project (Olympic Runners), as well as overseeing universities and advising their programs. He is the author of the National Federation of High School Coaches Certification Requirement Course (physiology and applied learning), now mandatory for all new high school coaches in many states.