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Sean Cupp, MD

Sean Cupp, MD

  • Associate Director, Sports Medicine Institute, University Hospitals
  • Co-Director, Sports Medicine, UH Cleveland Medical Center
  • Lead Medical Team Physician, The Cleveland Browns, UH Cleveland Medical Center
  • Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, CWRU School of Medicine
  • Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, CWRU School of Medicine
  • Specialty: Sports Medicine (Family Practice)
  • Location:
    UH Westlake Health Center
    960 Clague Rd
    Westlake, OH 44145

Biography: Sean Cupp, MD

Expertise

  • Hand, Arm, Elbow, Shoulder Problems
  • Knee Injuries
  • Musculoskeletal Injuries
  • Non-Surgical Musculoskeletal Medicine
  • Orthopaedic/Sports Medicine
  • Overuse / Chronic Sports Injuries
  • Sports Injuries
  • Sports Medicine
  • Sports Medicine - Adolescent
  • Sports Medicine - Adult
  • Sports Overtraining and Fatigue
  • Sports Performance and Performance Enhancement
  • Sports Ultrasound and Ultrasound Guided Injections

Certifications & Memberships

  • Sports Medicine - American Board of Family Medicine
  • Family Medicine - American Board of Family Medicine

Education

Fellowship | Sports Medicine - Family Practice
Sports Medicine - Family Practice - University Of Oklahoma Health Science Center Graduate College (2003 - 2004)

Residency | Family Medicine
Family Medicine - Huntsville Hospital (2000 - 2003)

Medical Education
University Of Oklahoma College Of Medicine (2000)

Undergraduate
University Of Oklahoma (1995)

About

Sean A. Cupp, MD, serves as the lead medical physician for the Cleveland Browns. Dr. Cupp is Co-Director of Sports Medicine at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Department of Family Medicine, at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Originally from rural western Oklahoma, Dr. Cupp earned his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma before receiving his family medicine training at the University of Alabama Birmingham-Huntsville Family Practice residency in north Alabama. He returned home for his Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City and then joined a busy private orthopedic practice in Lawrence, Kansas.

Dr. Cupp has spent his entire career in athletic medicine. For the decade prior to arriving in Cleveland, he practiced medical sports medicine and non-surgical orthopedics in northeast Kansas while serving as the assistant head medical physician for the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the head team physician for Baker University Wildcats.

Dr. Cupp is a Fellow in the American Academy of Family Physicians and an active member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and the NFL Physicians Society. He continues to practice sports medicine with University Hospitals Orthopedics. His interests include musculoskeletal medicine, medical issues of the athlete, non-surgical joint preservation, sports ultrasound and ultrasound guided joint injections.

Dr. Cupp and his wife, Keri, have three children: Charlotte, Christian and Caleb.

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