Dr. Morales has significant experience at the highest levels of professional sports including serving as Medical Director for Event Medical Services at the National Basketball Association. He provides medical coverage for elite-level athletes domestically and internationally including NBA Global Games, NBA finals, All Star Games, and NBA basketball camps. He has also served as medical director for USA Boxing where he provided medical coverage at ringside for youth and adult boxing matches.
Dr. Morales has a special interest in regenerative nonsurgical orthopedics and Age Management for patients and athletes throughout their lives. He is a pioneer in the use of Platelet Rich Plasma and Stem Cell treatments for a variety of orthopedic conditions.
A graduate of the Rutgers Medical School, Dr. Morales completed an Emergency Medicine residency at Jacobi Medical Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a Sports Medicine fellowship at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA where he served as a team physician for Major League Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates.
Dr. Morales has been core faculty at the Sports Medicine fellowship at North Shore/LIJ Hofstra School of Medicine in New York and is the current supervisor of the Orthopedic and Sports Medicine rotation at the Emergency Medicine residency program at Kendall Regional Hospital in Miami. He currently is the co-owner of two practices in South Florida. South Florida Walk In Orthopedics and Sports Medicine where he focuses on treating sports injuries and orthopedic conditions and The Sports and Wellness Institute of Miami where he focuses on regenerative, wellness and preventative medicine.
Dr. Morales has done multiple presentations and lectures on sports medicine, anti-aging, and wellness medicine as well as having multiple publications in the field. He has also been interviewed multiple times in television and print on topics relating to sports and regenerative medicine.
Dr. Morales is happily married to his amazing wife Melissa and has two beautiful daughters Amaya and Kaylin. He has been a lifelong athlete and participates in Mixed Martial Arts and CrossFit/Interval Training. He is a native Spanish speaker and fluent in both English and Spanish.