The athletic department’s team physician since 1979, Dr. Jay Caldwell joins Chuck Homan as the first Seawolf Hall of Fame inductees to be enshrined for “extraordinary contributions to UAA Athletics by someone other than a student-athlete, coach or staff member.”
The founder and director of the Alaska Sports Medicine Clinic, Dr. Caldwell has volunteered his time and expertise for 24 years to help ensure the fitness and health of UAA’s student-athletes.
A graduate of Harvard University and the UCLA School of Medicine, he also holds masters degrees from UCLA (Public Health, 1978) and Alaska Pacific University (Literature, 2003) as well as a Fellowship from the University of Kuopio in Finland (1982).
In addition to his duties at Alaska Sports Medicine, he is also currently the medical director for the Center for Drug Problems, a consultant for the Alaska Disability Determination Unit, and an affiliate professor of sports medicine at UAA.
Dr. Caldwell’s dedication to local sports has stretched beyond UAA, serving as the team physician for the Anchorage Glacier Pilots baseball team since 1971 and the team physician for the Anchorage Aces hockey club from 1991-99.
He and his wife Diana are the parents of two adult daughters, Maile and Twila.
