title: Balancing Health and High Performance: Carlos Jiménez, MD, MSpMed, Deputy Director, Sports Medicine Institute, Havana.
abstract: The Sports Medicine Institute (abbreviated in Spanish as IMD) in Havana is a hub of energy concentrated on the health and training of the nation's top athletes. While fencing teams, wrestlers and judokas work out in one building, a multidisciplinary staff keeps office hours next door for athletes, retired athletes, their families and others referred to their services. And not just "office" hours: everyone at the IMD, including doctors, seem to put physical activity into practice, moving in and out of hallways, up and down stairs, and along pathways between buildings and outdoor training areas, as if keeping pace with the young athletes in the lead.
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vickery