Dr. Jayanthi leads Emory's Tennis Medicine program,is the Director of Emory Sports Medicine Research and Education, and co-directs Emory’s Youth Sports Medicine program.  He is considered one of the country’s leading experts on youth sports health, injuries, and sports training patterns, as well as an international leader in tennis medicine. He is the immediate Past-President of the International Society for Tennis Medicine and Science (STMS) and a certified USPTA and PTR teaching professional. He has also been a volunteer ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) physician for 20 years, serves as a medical advisor for the WTA (Woman’s Tennis Association) Player Development Panel, and is on the commission for the International Tennis Performance Association (ITPA). He has been selected to the board of directors for the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) twice, and served as a Consultant for the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness, Aspen Institute Sport and Society Program, and Mom’s Team. Dr. Jayanthi has won multiple AMSSM Foundation Research Grants for his collaborative research on early sports specialized training and overuse injury in young athletes. He previously was the medical director of primary care sports medicine at Loyola University Chicago for 12 years where he was voted an Atlanta Magazine “Top Doctor” in the Chicagoland Suburbs prior to being recruited to Emory Healthcare.  He has already been a peer-selected “Top Doctor” in Atlanta since 2017.

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Dr. Jayanthi has been a course director over 30 times and has been an invited speaker over 170 times to local, regional conferences as well as at national academy conferences, international sports medicine, international Olympic committee (IOC) congresses and also at numerous Tennis Medicine, USTA, USPTA, and PTR conferences. He has regularly helped with medical care at the NFL Combines, Chicago Marathon, Division 1 NCAA athletics, and numerous high schools. He is currently a team physician for the Atlanta Braves, Gwinnet Stripers (AAA Braves affiliate), Georgia Tech University, Johns Creek High School, and Pinecrest High School.  He has numerous publications, book chapters, and is a reviewer of several sports medicine journals and is an active teaching faculty at Emory University. Dr. Jayanthi, has been featured and/or appeared on >150 media outlets including HBO Real Sports, ESPN, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post WGN news Sports Radio, WGN-TV news “Medical Watch,”, ABC news, CBS national radio, 11 Alive, Fox news, WGN and CLTV “Living Healthy” TV show, XM radio, and numerous other media outlets for his innovative research findings on junior tennis players and young athletes.  Dr. Jayanthi enjoys seeing active patients of all ages, and specialized in the young athletes and tennis players.  He lives in Johns Creek and sees patients at Emory Johns Creek and Emory Atlanta Hawks sports medicine locations.