Dr. Kimberly Harmon is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington where she is the Section Head of the Sports Medicine Section. She has been a team physician at the University of Washington since 1998 and the Head Football Physician since 2012. She is currently the Chair of the Pac-12 Student Athlete Health and Well-Being Board, the medical committee for the Pacific-12 Conference, which sets health policy for the 6,000 Pac-12 athletes and administers $3.5 million USD of research grants annually for studying issues that affect the health and wellness of student athletes.
Dr. Harmon is a Past-President of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (2009-2010) and has been on the Board of Directors of the AMSSM Foundation since 2011, currently serving as treasurer. She is also the Medical Advisor to the National Basketball Players Association, an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Sports Medicine, and has served as a consultant to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the United States Department of Defense.
Her research explores several domains including sports cardiology, particularly the epidemiology and prevention of sudden cardiac death in athletes, sports related concussion, the use of biologics in musculoskeletal medicine, and sickle cell trait in the athletes. For this work she has earned a number of honors including the AMSSM Best Overall Research Award (twice), the NCAA Research Award, and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Best Overall Research Paper.
Dr. Harmon is at heart an educator. She developed and molded the Sports Medicine Fellowship at the University of Washington into one of the premier training sites in the United States and served as the Director from 2004-2014. She continues to serve as faculty. Dr. Harmon is a former basketball athlete and is married with 4 boys.