Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Sue Bird, Tamika Catchings, Diana Taurasi — next week, some of the biggest names in men’s and women’s basketball are headed to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Washington native Dr. Lisa Rowland Callahan is going with them.

The 1979 Washington High School graduate was selected to be the men’s and women’s 2016 U.S. Olympic basketball teams doctor and will spend most of August tending the medical needs of some of the world’s premier athletes.

“It’s a real honor to be chosen,” Callahan said.

Callahan is chief medical officer and senior vice president of player care at Madison Square Garden Sports, where she oversees the care of players on the New York Knicks, Rangers, Liberty and several farm teams. She’s also co-director of the Women’s Sports Medicine Center at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. Though she’s traveling with a few trainers, she’ll be the only doctor with USA Basketball in Rio, and her role will entail more than treating potential injuries: she’ll also be overseeing potential food- and water-borne illnesses, along with handling concerns regarding Zika virus.

“It’s not just sports medicine; it’s a little bit public health, a little general medicine,” Callahan said.

Until the semi-finals of each team’s games, a lot of the experience will be spent on the road.

“It’s a little bit of a hectic schedule because the men and women are playing in two different arenas,” Callahan said. “There’s probably going to be a lot of bus time.”

Callahan said the relationship between USA Basketball and NBA is a long one — for many years, USA Basketball has taken one of the NBA physicians to the Olympic games and off-year tournaments. For the past three years, team doctors for the Knicks and the Brooklyn Nets have been sharing coverage of Olympic events, which led to Callahan attending the summer games.

She said the men’s and women’s basketball teams are made of a unique blend of players, from Anthony, who is on a record fourth trip to the Olympics, to University of Connecticut’s Breanna Stewart, the No. 1 draft pick in the WNBA draft.

“She’s the only one of the team going straight out of college,” Callahan said.

Callahan said USA Basketball has made a point of pulling players from all levels of the game into a pool of players from which the final teams are selected.

“It’s a real nice system how they have some veteran players, mid-players, and they have these young players. It’s really nice,” Callahan said.

What’s to be determined is which teams will go home with gold medals — historically, the women have been more dominant than the men in winning gold, but the men’s team is likely to rise to the finals, she said.

“Predictions are U.S. and Spain in the last round, but it’s single elimination. Anything can happen,” Callahan said.