Three-time Olympic rower Genevra Stone joins CHA Sports Medicine team

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), an academic community health system serving Cambridge, Somerville and Boston’s metro-north region, has named Genevra Stone, MD, as the newest member of its sports medicine and orthopaedic team.

Dr. Stone is a three-time Olympic athlete who represented the United States in the women’s single and double sculls competition. She won a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio in the single and placed seventh in the single at the 2012 Games in London and finished fifth in 2021 in Tokyo in the double. She was a member of the USRowing National Team for nine years, representing the United States in the women’s single sculls at World Cup and World Championship regattas. From 2016-2017, she was an assistant coach of the Harvard University women’s rowing team, and she was named the 2016 USRowing Female Athlete of the Year. As an undergraduate at Princeton University, she was an Academic All-Ivy student-athlete and a Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Division I All-American. Dr. Stone currently serves as a USRowing Athlete Advisory Council member and a USRowing High Performance Committee member.

Dr. Stone is a Massachusetts native who graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine, where she won the Young Alumni Achievement Award. After completing training at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center’s Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, where she served as Chief Resident in her final year, Dr. Stone completed a sports medicine fellowship at the University of Utah.

At CHA, Dr. Stone practices in emergency medicine and as a specialist in sports medicine in its outpatient care centers. A key member of the orthopaedics department, Dr. Stone will see patients with a wide variety of bone, muscle and joint injuries, diagnosing health issues, developing treatment plans and providing non-operative interventions. Her experience as a collegiate and Olympic athlete, a trained emergency physician and a sports medicine provider makes her uniquely qualified to understand body mechanics and to help people of all ages recover from accidents and illness and regain mobility and function.

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