NFL Medical Director Returns From Ukraine After Treating Hundreds And Training Medical Staff Following Russia’s Invasion

Katie JerkovichApril 25, 2022

Thom Mayer, Medical Director for the National Football League Players Association, has returned home from his trip to Ukraine where he treated hundreds of people and trained medical staff amid Russia’s invasion.

Mayer spent the last three weeks in the war-torn country helping train more than a thousand medical professionals. He was part of a group known as Team Rubicon, which “mobilizes veterans to serve communities” and to help people “recover from disasters and humanitarian crises.”

“NFLPA Medical Director Thom Mayer has returned home after 3 weeks in Ukraine, where he and the
@teamrubicon med team treated almost 350 patients,” ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter posted on Instagram Monday.

“He [Mayer] also helped train 1,700 local medical personnel in critical skills such as mass casualty response and tactical combat casualty care,” his post added.

Schefter’s post included several photos of Mayer helping people in the country.

“Thom [Mayer] is one of our Greyshirts who was on the ground providing crucial patient care in Ukraine and helping lead training of local Ukrainian medical personnel,” Team Rubicon tweeted about the trip.”#BuiltToServe.”

The NFLPA also shared several photos on Twitter of the medical director working with Ukrainians.

“Our Chief Medical Director, Dr. Thom Mayer, spent the past few weeks treating hundreds of Ukrainians with
@TeamRubicon and training over 1,700 local medical professionals,” the tweet from Team Rubicon read. “We’re proud to have Dr. Mayer on our team.

Earlier this month, the NFL’s New York Jets donated $1 million in relief aid to help the Ukrainian people after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the country in February.

“These donations will positively impact Ukrainian refugees and their families with essential supplies,” New York Jets Chairman Robert Wood Johnson shared at the time. “The need for resources is continuously growing. Our thoughts continue to be with the innocent lives who have been affected and all those who are suffering.”

“Today in Ukraine, many people are suffering,” Johnson’s wife, Suzanne, who grew up in a Ukrainian neighborhood in New York and is from a family of immigrants, added. “Because of this, it is important to us to provide assistance to organizations making a true difference on the ground. My family and I are heartbroken by the devastation and loss and are praying for the individuals who have become refugees and those still living and working in Ukraine.”

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