Beyond the Scoreboard: Where Mental Performance Meets Mental Health in Young Athletes by Dr. Jorge L. Aguilar, MD, PhD

YOUR SPEAKER

Dr. Jorge L. Aguilar, MD, PhD
Sports psychiatrist · Director, Sports Mental Health & Performance Institute, Montefiore Einstein · Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Consultant to the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball · Team psychiatrist, New York City FC

WHY THIS SESSION

Young athletes carry a lot: pressure to win, scholarships, social media, parents on the sideline. Dr. Aguilar works with athletes from high school to Major League Baseball. He looks at where healthy drive ends and a mental health problem begins, and what every clinician on the care team should watch for.

WHAT WE WILL COVER

1. Performance anxiety, burnout and depression: how they show up in athletes.
2. The warning signs coaches and parents miss.
3. When stress shows up in the body: palpitations, chest pain, fainting, and when to send to cardiology.
4. Talking to the athlete and the family.
5. When to refer, and to whom.

WHO THIS IS FOR

• Pediatricians, sports medicine physicians and primary care physicians
• Psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists working with young athletes
• Physical therapists, athletic trainers and the wider care team around young athletes

ABOUT DR. AGUILAR

Dr. Aguilar works with the MLB Rookie Development Program and has worked with the New York Yankees. He trained in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, then in adult and child and adolescent psychiatry at Montefiore. He is a former NCAA runner, and in 2009 he coached the Harlem Little League World Series team.

THE SESSION

Wednesday, November 4, 2026 · 1:00 PM ET · Online on Zoom
60 minutes with open Q&A, moderated by Dr. Patrick Flynn, pediatric cardiologist and co-founder of the Young Athlete Health Society.