About Anthony Luke, MD, MPH

Dr. Anthony Luke is a primary care sports medicine doctor. He specializes in treating sports injuries without surgery, and also focuses on training and counseling patients in injury prevention. He is a physician lead for the Benioff Children's Hospital Sports Medicine Center for Young Athletes and Director of the UCSF Human Performance Center.

Luke's research interests include injury prevention, pediatric sports medicine, running medicine and digital health.

Luke completed his undergraduate education, medical degree and residency in family practice at the University of Toronto. He completed a fellowship in primary care sports medicine at the Boston Children's Hospital and earned a master's degree in public health from Harvard University.

Luke helps direct high school sports medicine programs in San Francisco and Marin, and helps coordinate medical care at most of the large foot races in the Bay Area. He has worked with San Francisco Golden Gate Rugby and sports programs of the University of California, Berkeley, as well as at the Olympics.

Luke is also Director of the UCSF Human Performance Centers at the Orthopedic Institute in Mission Bay in San Francisco. Here, they can do clinical and research evaluations for 3D motion capture of biomechanics and exercise performance testing (VO2 max and lactate), as well as assess and counsel athletes on their performance goals.

Luke also directs the UCSF high school outreach program, UCSF PlaySafe, which serves more than 18 high schools in the Bay Area.