Stephen J. Press
Stephen J. Press (born October 20, 1947) is an American chiropractor. He was instrumental in starting the International Federation of Sports Chiropractic (FICS) and was elected its first president in 1987. Press was the team physician for the former Soviet Union's Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics. He currently has a private practice in Englewood, New Jersey.
Personal life
Press was born in The Bronx, New York to Howard and Renée Press (née Graf) in The Bronx, New York City. He is married to Olga Petrovna Serova, and has two children of his own, and a step son.
Education
In 1985, Press received a Bachelors Degree in biology from Thomas Edison State College. He obtained his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1978. He obtained Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician certification in 1980.
Career
In 1987, Press was elected the first president of the newly founded International Federation of Sports Chiropractic (FICS). He was elected Secretary-general of the World Fitness Federation at their inaugural meeting. In 1990, at the end of his term as President, the Board of directors of the International Federation of Sports Chiropractic, awarded him the "FICS Gold Medal", "the highest award the profession can give to a Sports Chiropractor, Internationally". He served as the Chief Physician of the former Soviet Union's Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France in 1992. In 1993 he was team physician for the US National Tae Kwon Do Team at the World Taekwondo Championships.
In 1990, Press co-founded the Soviet-American Chiropractic Center and its Faculty of Chiropractic with Anatoly Fedin (chief neurologist at the Pirogov Institute hospital).
He is currently in private practice in Englewood, New Jersey and is one of the consulting chiropractic staff members at Preakness Healthcare Center, a long term care facility (formerly Preakness Hospital). Following Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, Press served as a member of the Medical Reserve Corps of the US Public Health Service, and was sent to a shelter in Big Sandy, Texas, where he served as shelter physician, running a team of LPNs, RNs and EMTs for over 800 refugees.
Press is the only chiropractor to be named a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine in 1983.