When I arrived to the United States to start my training as a General Surgeon, a senior resident good friend of mine told me: "You can do only 2 more things in your life besides Surgery. Family is one ....you get to pick the other one". I replied immediately: "Where can I find a soccer team around here?".
After playing soccer all my life, residency and fellowship made it hard to keep playing however, my friend was right and I was able to enjoy games and meet people that shared my passion everywhere.
Eventually the invitation to play for the US Medical Soccer Team arrived. I found a fantastic group of people that share my three passions: family, medicine and soccer.
Life is always better after a "futbol" game.

I was born and raised in Lima, Peru. I completed medical school in 2002 and moved to the US in 2004 for my Pediatric Residency and Pediatric Pulmonology training at University of Florida. I have played soccer since the day I was born and must confess that I was concerned about the future of my "soccer career" when I moved to the states. I was gladly surprised to see that soccer in this country is way more popular than I thought. Soccer has even helped me open doors in my professional career. It turns out the medical director of my current job is a huge soccer fan and all we talked about during my interview was about the "beautiful game". He recruited me for the job and also his soccer team. I moved to Baton Rouge, LA in 2010 after I finished my training in Florida and can't be happier. I currently play more soccer than I ever before.
This is my first year on the team and July cannot come fast enough. I am very glad to have joined a great group of people that love soccer as much as I do

Dr. Lorber grew up in the Southern California attending UCLA for his undergraduate education. He then remained at UCLA completing his Masters in Public Health prior to heading to Chicago for Medical School at the Rosalind Franklin University. He now works at a Southern California emergency department and is married with twins.

Dr Nayak grew up in Lee's Summit, Missouri outside of Kansas City and is an avid Royals and Chiefs fan. He did his undergraduate education at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana and received his medical doctorate from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. After medical school, Dr Nayak completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, Maryland, subsequently serving four additional years as a staff cardiologist at NNMC. After leaving the Navy in 2009, Dr Nayak joined the Wenatchee Valley Medical Center in Wenatchee, Washington, where he currently resides with his family. Dr Nayak's medical interests include cardiovascular imaging, heart failure, and emerging models of healthcare delivery.

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After getting my MD degree from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, I moved to the US to land in Chicago, IL, where I completed Internal Medicine training at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. I subsequently moved to Atlanta, GA, for my fellowship in Nephrology. Immediately after that, I joined the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston to start my current career in academic medicine.

It's hard to describe what football/soccer means to me. My sanity has been questioned by others who have witnessed my limitless passion for the sport, either if it's playing it, watching it or simply talking about it. Back during my days as a younger (significantly younger) player, a match day usually lasted 3 days: 1 day of pre-game mental isolation from earth, the actual day of the match, and 1 day of post-game ranting about the referee or simply celebrating a victory in the most obnoxious way. Currently, it is known in my household that a fuming near-psychotic reaction could be elicited if somebody dares to interrupt me during an important televised game. Unless, it's time for dinner and my wife says so, of course.

Now, after playing "futbol" competitively throughout my life and realizing that my aging skills and family/work-related duties continue to limit more and more my "playing time", joining the USMST hasn't just been an amazing opportunity for me, it has been like a rebirth. I feel pretty lucky to be part of this organization and I feel very lucky to be surrounded by incredibly nice teammates.