Price replaces Dr. Matthew Provencher, the Patriots’ head physician during the 2014-15 seasons who took a position at a renowned sports medicine facility in Vail, Colo., for family reasons. Dr. Thomas Gill previously held the position for seven years before Provencher.

The Patriots confirmed Tuesday that orthopedic surgeon Mark D. Price of Massachusetts General Hospital has been named the team’s head physician and medical director, the third doctor to hold that title in the last four years.

Price, who was an assistant physician with the Patriots last season, takes the top post with a decorated résumé. A specialist in shoulder surgery, Price has been a Red Sox team physician since 2008 and was an assistant team physician with the Patriots and Bruins from 2008-09.


Price, who earned his MD from Harvard Medical School in 2003, is also a Commander in the US Navy Reserves and served in combat operations in Afghanistan, where he was awarded a Bronze Star Medal in 2013 for meritorious service. He has been a physician with the US Navy Medical Corps since 2008.

Price was also awarded the Herodicus Society traveling fellowship in 2009 and studied throwing injuries with Drs. James Andrews and David Altchek. According to his MGH bio, Price performs arthroscopic surgery of the knee and shoulder, as well as total shoulder replacement and complex shoulder reconstructions.

The Patriots also have a new strength and conditioning coach.

Harold Nash left the Patriots for the Lions after 11 years with the team (five as the head strength coach), and was replaced by Moses Cabrera, who had been Nash’s assistant the last five seasons.

Ben Volin can be reached at Ben.Volin@globe.com.