Women's Basketball
- Title:
- Assistant Athletic Director/Director, Sports Medicine
- Email:
- egahan@tulane.edu
- Phone:
- 451-6892
Eric Gahan began his first year as the Assistant Athletic Director and the Director of Sports Medicine at Tulane in 2023. He works as the primary day-to-day medical contact for the women’s basketball team.
Gahan has over 20 years of experience in the areas of athletic training and strength & conditioning related fields as a business owner, entrepreneur, & clinician to provide radically candid leadership, management & aligned high performance clinical care.
Prior to Tulane, Gahan was working for EmpowerU Online Coaching..
EmpowerU is an enterprise that helps healthcare providers and fitness professionals build thriving businesses.
With EmpowerU, Gahan continued to develop management, administrative policy/procedures, standard operating procedures & clinical systems to help entrepreneurs with online business.
Before his time most recent stint at EmpowerU, Gahan spent several years working for Cirque du Soleil as the head athletic trainer for Zumanity - the resident cabaret-style show, the head athletic trainer for Mystere and as a fly-in athletic trainer for Drawn to Life and Corteo.
While chairperson of the Injury Risk Reduction group at Cirque du Soleil, Gahan developed the Performance Medicine Profile (PMed Profile). The PMed Profile provided a systematic approach to identification of performers who were at risk of injury and allowed customization of the care provided based on a performer’s specific needs.
He began his athletic training career at St. Bonaventure University at the athletic trainer for the men’s soccer team, the men’s and women’s swim team, and the baseball team.
His next stop was to the University of Mississippi where Gahan started working with the baseball team and soon became the Senior Athletic Trainer for the football team.
He followed his time at Mississippi by taking a position at Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Center.
Armed with orthopedic knowledge and Dr. James Andrews mentorship, Gahan moved back to the college Athletic Training field at Boston University. Here he developed an interest in human movement and corrective exercises while teaching Athletic Training students.
He helped to take Boston University’s (BU) Athletic Training Services out of the Athletic Department, to become a thriving unit delivering aligned clinical care in Student Health Services, operating on a multi-million dollar budget.
While at Boston University, he did national presentations on the use of kettlebells in rehabilitation programs.
Later, he and his wife opened Iron Body Studios, a brick-and-mortar kettlebell gym in the Boston area.
Iron Body Studios was recognized as a Top-10 training facility by Men’s Health in 2016.
There, Gahan combined all of his education and experience to bridge the gap between rehabilitation and strength training. EmpowerU Online Coaching, a new business that provided online training soon followed.
He incorporates time-tested management, clinical care, mindset, and personal growth methods to help patients and peers overcome the challenges of building a thriving mindset and body. His years of clinical insight, management, and also administrative development help to guide peers to greatness and his patients to empowerment.Gahan studied and graduated from Canisius University in Buffalo, New York in 2000 and went on to obtain his master’s degree at the University of Kentucky 2002
He currently lives in Uptown with his wife Artemis and their dog Miki.
