Medical Staff

St. Elizabeth's Medical Center

St. Elizabeth's Medical Center is the Official Hospital, Team Doctor, and Athletic Training and Physical Therapy Partner of the Boston Cannons.

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Dr. Robert Nascimento

Dr. Nascimento is an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in knee and shoulder arthroscopy, ligament and cartilage reconstruction, shoulder and knee resurfacing and sports medicine. He obtained his master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He completed his internship and residency at UMass Medical Center and a fellowship in sports medicine and arthroscopic surgery at Boston University Medical Center. He joined the Division of Sports Medicine in the Bone and Joint Center at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in 2011.

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Adam Thomas

 

Adam Thomas, DPT, ATC,  is in his second year working as the Head Athletic Trainer with the Boston Cannons as a member of the St. Elizabeth's Medical Team.

Adam is a full-time faculty member in the Athletic Training Education Program and Physical Therapy Department for the last seven years.  In addition to duties at Northeastern, Adam is the Head Athletic Trainer for the USA indoor lacrosse team and has worked with that team since the summer of 2010 and covered the indoor world championships in Prague in May 2011.  He has been the Head Athletic Trainer for the Boston Blazers Indoor Lacrosse Team and has also volunteered within the USA Olympic Training Committee, working women’s ice hockey trial camp in 2008.  He recently worked with USA men’s field hockey and has traveled to Mexico for the Junior Pan American Games as well as Vancouver, Canada for a four game tournament.  In 2011 and 2012, he traveled to South Africa leading a group of 30 Northeastern students and teaching two classes while overseas for 31 days. ??Prior to working at Northeastern, Thomas worked as an athletic trainer with the Houston Astros Baseball Organization for three years and in 2004-2005, he worked as a lecturer and athletic trainer at Merrimack College, covering field hockey, men’s basketball, and baseball.?? 

Thomas received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern in 1999, completed a master’s degree in 2001 from Western Michigan University, and in 2012 completed his doctorate in Physical Therapy from Northeastern University.

Thomas grew up in Marshfield, Massachusetts, and presently resides in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

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