Beyond the Scoreboard: Where Mental Performance Meets Mental Health in Young Athletes with Dr. Jorge Aguilar, MD, PhD, Director of the Sports Mental Health & Performance Institute at Montefiore Einstein

Young athletes carry a lot: pressure to win, scholarships, social media, parents on the sideline. Dr. Jorge 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.

Live + Recorded · 60 minutes · Wednesday Nov 4, 2026 · 1:00 PM ET

What we will cover:

• Performance anxiety, burnout and depression: how they show up in athletes
• Warning signs coaches and parents miss
• When stress shows up in the body: palpitations, chest pain, fainting, and when to send to cardiology
• Talking to the athlete and the family
• When to refer, and to whom
• Open Q&A

Dr. Jorge Aguilar, MD, PhD · Sports psychiatrist and Director of the Sports Mental Health & Performance Institute at Montefiore Einstein. He is also Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He consults for the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, works with the MLB Rookie Development Program, is team psychiatrist for New York City FC 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.

Moderated by Dr. Patrick Flynn, MD · Pediatric cardiologist with more than 35 years at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, founder of Avalon Pediatric Cardiology, and co-founder of the Young Athlete Health Society.