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Irving Israel Dardik (October 3, 1936 - November 1, 2023[1]) was a vascular surgeon who taught at Albert Einstein College of Medicine[2] and founded the Sports Medicine Council of the US Olympic Committee.[2] Dardik was notable as being among the first medical doctors to endorse the use of chiropractic in sports, when he recommended in 1979 that the United States Olympic Committee include a Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.) as a member of its medical team at all future Olympic Games.[3] As a result, chiropractor George Goodheart attended the XIIIth Winter Olympic Games, in Lake Placid, NY, and the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs instituted a Volunteer Doctor Program for D.C.'s.[4]
In 1980, Dardik helped direct the inaugural Olympic Sports Medicine Conference (Feb 26 through 29) in Boston.[5]
In the early 1970s, together with his brother Herbert Dardik, he pioneered the use of umbilical veins as a source of graft tissue for bypass surgeries.[6]
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- ^ Press, Stephen J. (2013), History of Sports Chiropractic, New Jersey: C.I.S Commercial Finance Grp., Ltd., pp. 124–127, ISBN 9781105536830
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- ^ Phil Gunby (Jan 11, 1980). "More physician involvement in future Olympic programs". JAMA. 243 (2): 103. doi:10.1001/jama.1980.03300280007004.
- ^ Staff, H; Ibrahim, IM; Baier, R; Sprayregen, S; Levy, M; Dardik, II (December 1976). "AMA News". JAMA. 236 (25): 2859–2862. doi:10.1001/jama.1976.03270260015018. PMID 1036587.