Dr. Emily Kraus

Sports Medicine Physician | Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Emily Kraus is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford Children’s Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center. She is board-certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) sports medicine and takes a unique approach to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of sports injuries. She serves as the Director of the Stanford Female Athlete Program focused on female-specific translational research to answer fundamental physiological and sports performance questions important to improving the health and performance of girls and women, including the topics of bone health, the Female Athlete Triad, RED-S, running biomechanics, and mental health. Dr. Kraus also serves as the Medical Director of the Stanford Children’s Motion Analysis and Sports Performance Lab, focused on cutting-edge biomechanics research with a strong clinical application.

She is involved in multiple Stanford IRB-approved research projects, including The Healthy Runner Project, a multicenter prospective interventional study focused on bone stress injury prevention in collegiate middle and long-distance runners. She also has research and clinical interests in youth sports specialization, endurance sports medicine, injury prevention, running biomechanics, and adaptive sports.

Dr. Kraus proudly grew up a 3-sport high school athlete in small-town Nebraska and is now an avid runner and cyclist, completing 9 marathons, including Boston Marathon twice and California International Marathon in 2019 with a time of 2:50. With staying physically active as one of her personal passions, she recognizes how sports participation plays a valuable role in the physical, emotional, professional, and social development of a child and adolescent and is committed to maintaining these ideals for the next generation of youth athletes.

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Stanford University School of Medicine Fellow, Sports Medicine Residency Program 2016 - 2017

Elise Keoghan, LPC

Elise Keoghan is a Licensed Professional Counselor and enthusiast of intuitive and functional athlete training and nutrition. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas and her Masters in Counseling from St. Edwards University, and has Gottman Institute Couples Therapy level 1 training credentials.

She also supports athletes at various levels from high school, elite club teams, D1 colleges, Ivy League, at the national level, to those who love including exercise in their life.

Elise has been supporting clients since 2014.

"I am Intuitive Eating aligned and an advocate of the anti-diet movement, HAES aligned, I use a social justice lens to approach body politics and body liberation and encourage my clients in strengthening body trust and mind-body awareness.

I have enjoyed fitness all of my life, and competed in various sports throughout high school, college, and the years following. My longtime love for fitness and sports has given me a special passion for working with athletes, particularly with eating disorders, body image, relationship with exercise, after injury or loss, life after college or pro sports, around relationships, and with anxiety, depression, or suicidal ideation.

I have a passion for working with Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) or those who grew up in homes with addiction or abuse process trauma and the many ways their home life has impacted them.

I also have experience supporting clients around cross-cultural body image concerns.

Professionally, I enjoy speaking engagements and educating on Athletes and Mental Health and Athletes and Eating Disorders.

When I'm not at the office, I love to spend time with my nephew and niece, family, and friends, run local races with my siblings, be on the lake, weight lifting, boxing classes, listen to social justice podcasts, concerts, and stand-up comedy!"

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Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas

Masters in Counseling from St. Edwards University

Gottman Institute Couples Therapy level 1 training credentials.

Jenni Tarma

ERYT500, RRCA endurance coach, CrossFit L1 trainer

Jenni Tarma is a lifelong athlete, endurance runner, RRCA Endurance coach, CrossFit athlete

and CF-L1 trainer, Yoga Medicine Therapeutic Specialist, and a full-time ERYT500 yoga

teacher. She specializes in working with an active population and coaches everyone from elite

athletes to weekend warriors looking to feel better in their bodies. She is the founder and CEO

of Kaari Prehab, a company that provides customized mobility, recovery and injury prevention/

recovery services for active folks of all varieties.

Jenni has multiple advanced certifications in anatomy, physiology and biomechanics, and is a

lead teacher in the Carolina Yoga 200hr teacher training program, where she has mentored

dozens of new yoga teachers. She is also a senior teacher in the Yoga Medicine 500hr program,

where she has created continuing education courses on specialty topics like neuromechanics,

hypermobility, and teaching yoga to weightlifting athletes.

She is an enthusiastic writer who has contributed articles to Yoga Journal, Healthline, Weight

Watchers, OpenFit, Reebok, Thrive Global and Yoga Medicine ’s online forum among others,

and recently released an e-book on hamstring tendon injuries.

So you know she's legit:

CEO and Founder at Kaari Prehab

2020

Berklee College of Music



2000 - 2002

Sevenoaks School

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International Baccalaureate, Art, Music, Economics, English Literature, Russian, Chemistry.International Baccalaureate, Art, Music, Economics, English Literature, Russian, Chemistry.



1998 - 2000