Elizabeth Barchi, M.D. — Sports & Lifestyle Medicine

Elizabeth Barchi, M.D., is a sports medicine and dance medicine specialist. She has brought into her treatment process lessons learned from the physical trials of seven years as a professional ballet dancer. Dr. Barchi completed her Pediatrics residency at Penn State Children’s Hospital, and now, after four years of perfecting her craft in New York City as a fellow of Primary Care Sports Medicine and Assistant Professor at NYU Orthopedics, Dr. Barchi is returning home to the Greater Philadelphia area to fulfill her dream of cultivating sports and dance medicine focused on care for the whole athlete.

As faculty in the New York University Department of Orthopedics, in addition to being Medical Director for Division 1 & 3 universities, Dr. Barchi helped build the NYU Women’s Sports Center, dedicated to the care of the female athlete from adolescence to adulthood. She served on the executive committee of the world-renowned NYU Harkness Center for Dance Injuries, and was staff physician for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater COVID-19 Task Force. She was named a Rudin Fellowship Mentor at NYU, and was chosen to be a Hippocrates Lecturer at Penn State. Her sports and wellness interviews have appeared in Oprah Magazine, Prevention Magazine, Runners World, Bicycling Magazine, Self Magazine, and Medium Elemental. She has been invited to be keynote speaker at the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio Performing Arts Symposium, and has been interviewed on dance medicine for Dance Magazine, Pointe Magazine, The Washington Post, and more.

Dr. Barchi’s work as an educator of dancers, dance educators, and medical professionals is of particular importance to her. She has led wellness workshops for the American Ballet Theater School, Dance Theater of Harlem, Steps on Broadway, and Mark Morris Dance Center. Sought out by dancers across the country, Dr. Barchi has cared for dancers from major companies and schools including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, The Julliard School, Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Dance Theater of Harlem, American Ballet Theater School, School of American Ballet, Joffrey Ballet School, and the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, as well as Broadway shows, films and television series.