Elise joined the UCSF PlaySafe athletic training staff in the fall of 2008. Elise has worked at many schools within the SFUSD over her tenure with UCSF, the longest and most impactful being with Abraham Lincoln and John O’Connell High Schools. Elise has been an active and incredibly important part of the growth of the PlaySafe Program and our services within the SFUSD. She strongly believes in the vision of the program to bring athletic trainers to active populations that lack access and healthcare resources. Elise has spent years creating a referral network for our SFUSD student-athletes of any insurance (even those that lack of insurance) to access timely specialty sports medicine care. Elise has also served on the PlaySafe Cardiac PPE Planning Committee since the event’s inception and has been instrumental in coordinating all aspects of this large event with primary role of the organization of athlete registration.

Elise has a special interest in sports concussions. It is because of this interest that she was asked to serve as the Lead of UCSF Sports Concussion Program within UCSF Sports Medicine. She helped to launch this clinic in 2012 and continues to work to triage patients and ensure timely access to our concussion providers. She has been invited numerous times to lecture on best practices for management of sports concussions and annually pursues continuing education in this topic area.

Prior to her arrival at UCSF, Elise served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at the University of California, Berkeley from 2005-2008, where she worked with football, women’s gymnastics, and track & field/cross country. In 2004, Elise received her bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University in Exercise and Sport Science, with an emphasis in Athletic Training and minors in Psychology and Music. Along her Athletic Training journey, Elise was an undergraduate athletic training intern at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and became a Certified EMT. She gained athletic training experience with the LMU Athletic Training team while working as an EMT with the Women of Wrestling and an ambulance company in LA County. Just before transferring to OSU, Elise did an internship with the Los Angeles Avengers Arena Football Team which solidified her desire to pursue a career in athletic training.