{"id":277955,"date":"2026-03-31T12:46:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/doctors\/john-ponti-md-caqsm\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T05:02:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:02:04","slug":"john-ponti-md-caqsm","status":"publish","type":"doctors","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/john-ponti-md-caqsm\/","title":{"rendered":"John Ponti M\u00e9dico, CAQSM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<p>O Dr. John Ponti \u00e9 especializado em tratamentos n\u00e3o-operat\u00f3rios. Licenciou-se com o seu Bacharelato em Artes, Magna Cum Laude, na Universidade de Massachusetts Amherst.  Em seguida, continuou a aprofundar os seus conhecimentos m\u00e9dicos, graduando-se com o seu Doutoramento em Medicina pela T.H Chan School of Medicine na UMass Chan Medical School em Worcester, MA.  O Dr. Ponti completou a sua resid\u00eancia na Brown Family Medicine em Pawtucket, RI, antes de completar a sua bolsa de estudos na UMass Sports &amp; Exercise Medicine em Worcester, MA.  Ele \u00e9 certificado pelo Conselho Americano de Medicina Familiar. <\/p>\n<p>Durante a sua forma\u00e7\u00e3o, o Dr. Ponti foi m\u00e9dico da equipa dos Triple-A Worcester Red Sox, bem como da Universidade de Massachusetts Amherst e da Holy Cross. O Dr. Ponti \u00e9 especializado em Medicina Desportiva e \u00e9 o Instrutor Afiliado de Medicina Desportiva no Departamento de Medicina Familiar da Escola de Medicina T.H. Chan da UMass Chan Medical School.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A filosofia de cuidados do Dr. Ponti est\u00e1 centrada na cren\u00e7a de que um m\u00e9dico deve esfor\u00e7ar-se por educar, informar e capacitar os seus pacientes para tomarem as melhores decis\u00f5es cl\u00ednicas. Como ele \u00e9 formado em cuidados prim\u00e1rios, ele tamb\u00e9m acredita em tratar o paciente como um todo e levar em conta todas as suas condi\u00e7\u00f5es m\u00e9dicas e hist\u00f3rico ao trat\u00e1-los.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9 um \u00e1vido adepto dos desportos de Boston e \u00e9 especialmente apaixonado pelo basebol.  Al\u00e9m disso, o Dr. Ponti \u00e9 volunt\u00e1rio num campo de f\u00e9rias para crian\u00e7as infectadas ou afectadas pelo VIH\/SIDA.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":287982,"template":"","specialty":[192,965],"language":[],"keywords":[948,1324,1305,1028,529,945,528,1310,530,1314,1326,533,1306,1029],"address":[207,590],"class_list":["post-277955","doctors","type-doctors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","specialties-orthopedics","specialties-sports-medicine","keywords-ankle","keywords-ankle-pain","keywords-hand","keywords-hand-pain","keywords-hip","keywords-hip-pain","keywords-knee","keywords-knee-pain","keywords-shoulder","keywords-shoulder-pain","keywords-sports-injury","keywords-sports-medicine","keywords-wrist","keywords-wrist-pain","addresses-52_281","addresses-52_329"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>John Ponti MD, CAQSM - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/john-ponti-md-caqsm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_PT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Ponti MD, CAQSM - Southcoast Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. John Ponti specializes in non-operative treatment. 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