Gary Anderson is currently the Performance Director for Bobsleigh with responsibility for the sports programme to achieve medal success at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi 2014. He has led bobsleigh to success in the past two years with the sports first ever Europa cup Gold in the men’s event, a World Junior Championship Gold and in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games Great Britain won a silver medal and finished fourth and fifth. Both the GBR men’s and women’s bobsleigh teams now sit firmly in the world's top 10 with Great Britain ranked amongst the top six joint nations. Gary has worked in a number of sports at the highest level including six years in professional football, where he won the FIFA fair play award. He has held the position of World Class Coaching Consultant at UK Sport, (the government body for elite sport in the UK), on two separate occasions and was part of the original implementation team of the institute system within the UK. Gary was consultant to the book “Training to Succeed” published by Franklin Watts. Gary has appeared on many television programmes most recently on ITV’s “Beat the Star” where he coached celebrity athletes.
Pete Atkinson is the Technical Lead of the South S&C Team for the English Institute of Sport, running a team of over twenty S&C coaches. This includes directly overseeing the delivery to the GB Rowing, GB Hockey & GB Canoeing as well as the BOA/EIS Intensive Rehab Unit. He combines this with his role as a Research Scientist for UK Sport’s Research & Innovation Team, where Pete has contributed performance-solutions to GB Bobskeleton, England Rugby 7’s, GB Hockey and GB Canoeing, as well as providing education to practitioners on specialist innovations. From 1998-2005 Pete worked in the Rugby Union Premiership. He had five successful years as S&C Coach at Leicester Tigers during the golden era in which the club won four consecutive domestic titles and two consecutive European Cups. From 2003-2005 Pete was Head of S&C at Saracens RFC during which time they rose from 10th in the Premiership to a Heineken Cup qualification spot.
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Roald Bahr is the Professor of Sports Medicine and Chair of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. He is also the Chief Medical Officer of Olympiatoppen and the National Olympic Training Center. He is authorized as a Sports Medicine Physician by the Norwegian Society of Sports Medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. He serves as Team Physician for the beach volleyball national teams. He is past chair of the National Council on Physical Activity, past president of the Norwegian Society of Sports Medicine, the current chair of the Sports Medicine Council of the Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. He is the President of the FIVB Medical Commission and a member of the IOC Medical Commission—Medical and Scientific Group. His main research area is sports injury prevention, and he has published more than 200 original research articles, review papers and book chapters, in addition to 10 books. Fourteen of his students have completed their PhDs and he is currently the advisor for 10 PhD candidates. He is the main editor of the acclaimed textbook “Clinical Guide to Sports Injuries”, which is published in seven languages, as well as the new “Handbook of Sports Injury Prevention”. In October 2008 at Buckingham Palace, Professor Bahr was presented with the Prince Philip Medal for his outstandingly significant and original contribution to the advancement of medical knowledge in Sports and Exercise Medicine by His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. Professor Bahr is also a former national team volleyball player and coach, and is married with three children.
Nick Broad is the former Head of Science at Chelsea FC, a role which spanned both medical and coaching departments. He has worked in professional football for 14 years, starting as a consultant nutritionist before taking on a more holistic, broader remit with his post at Chelsea, one he held for 6 years. He was an early adopter of movement tracking technology and has a special interest in movement assessment and its applications across a broad spectrum of sports performance and sports business operations including recruitment, selection, training load monitoring and tracking and rehabilitation practices. He is currently engaged in a number of consultancy roles in team sports data management and movement analytics as well as some strategic nutritional support roles as director of Sports Discovery Ltd.
John R Brotherhood is an exercise and environmental physiologist. He retired from the Discipline of Exercise and Sport Science, University of Sydney, in 2006. He spent two years as a medical officer with the British Antarctic Survey at Signy Island in 1966 and Halley Bay in 1967. While in the Antarctic he studied human energy expenditure. Subsequently he specialised in exercise and environmental medicine and physiology. He moved from the UK to Australia in 1976. He has research experience in exercise, heat and cold stress, and occupational physiology, in the laboratory and in the field in Antarctica, UK, Israel, Sudan, and Australia. His academic interests have included physical activity and health, exercise and rehabilitation, and sports nutrition. His current research interests are in the assessment of heat stress in sport and the epidemiology of heat disorders in Australia. He has provided advice on environmental heat stress in sport to the International Tennis Federation and the International Cricket Council, and in Australia to Australian Rugby Union, National Rugby League, the Australian Tennis Open and Sports Medicine Australia. He has been a competitive middle distance and endurance runner and was Honorary Medical Officer to the Road Runner’s Club (UK) 1974-1976. He is a Fellow of the Australian Sports Medicine Federation.
Hakim Chalabi completed his medical training at the University Hospital Cochin in Paris in 1993 before undertaking specialist training as a Sports Physician. Prior to joining ASPETAR, he was the Medical Director for Paris St Germain Football Club and from 1995 Dr Chalabi worked as a Sports Medicine Specialist and, subsequently, Assistant CMO for the renowned “Clinique du Sport”, (one of the first sports specialist Hospital facilities in Europe). From 1993 to 1995 he was also a Research Physician in the French Physiology for Aerospace Medicine facility in Brétigny, France. Apart from his duties as Assistant Chief Medical Officer and Executive Director of the National Sports Medicine program in ASPETAR Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Dr. Chalabi was recently appointed as Chief Medical Officer for the Algerian National Football and travelled to South Africa for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. His main research interests involve exercise physiology in elite athletes and the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of fatigue and overtraining.
Marije Elferink-Gemser (born 1973) finished her PhD in 2005 with the thesis ‘Today’s talented youth field hockey players, the stars of tomorrow? A study on talent development in field hockey’. She continued her studies on talented athletes at the Center for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen (The Netherlands) as assistant professor and successfully supervised Bachelor, Master and PhD- students on this topic. Recently she also has a position at the Institute for Studies in Sports and Exercise of the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen. Her main interest lies in the field of performance development towards expertise in children. Her studies are characterized by their longitudinal design, focusing on multidimensional performance characteristics of both the youth athletes and their environment.
Todd S. Ellenbecker, DPT, MS, SCS, OCS, CSCS, is a physical therapist and clinic director of Physiotherapy Associates Scottsdale Sports Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ and is the Director of Sports Medicine for the ATP World Tour. He received his degree in physical therapy from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse in 1985 and a master's degree in exercise physiology from Arizona State University in 1989. He completed his Doctor of Physical Therapy from MGH –Institute of Health Professions in 2006. He is certified as a sports clinical specialist and orthopaedic clinical specialist by the APTA. He is also a certified strength and conditioning specialist. He is a certified USPTA tennis teaching professional and is Chairman of the USTA National Sport Science Committee. Todd is also the National Director of Clinical Research for Physiotherapy Associates. He has conducted and published research primarily on upper extremity athletes, as well as shoulder and elbow rehabilitation. He is the author of several books, “The Elbow in Sport”, “Complete Conditioning for Tennis”, “Closed Kinetic Chain Exercise”, “Strength Band Training” and “Clinical Examination of the Shoulder”. He is the editor of the second edition of “Knee Ligament Rehabilitation” and “Shoulder Rehabilitation: Non-Operative Treatment” and co-editor of the book “The Scientific & Clinical Application of Elastic Resistance” and “Functional Progressions in Sport Rehabilitation”. Ellenbecker lives in Scottsdale Arizona with his wife Gail.
Bryan English qualified in medicine in 1986 and worked in the NHS for 13 years culminating in a consultant post in musculoskeletal medicine. During the NHS years he gained qualifications in osteopathy, sports medicine and clinical gait analysis to create a base of physical medicine. After working with judo, ice hockey and basketball in his free time, he was employed part time by UK Athletics in 1997. In 2000, when working at the Sydney Olympic Games, he made the decision to work in sports medicine full time and devoted himself to preparing GB athletes for the Athens Olympics in 2004. In 2000 he also became the first Chairman of The United Kingdom Association of Doctors in Sport (UKADIS). His position as a Director of the National Sports Medicine Institute resulted in his involvement in the formation of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (UK) and in organising the initial meetings with the then Sports Minister, Richard Caborn. In 2005 he joined Chelsea Football Club and was subsequently invited to join the FA Medical Committee, on which he still serves. In 2007 he was promoted to Medical Director of Chelsea Football Club and over the last 2 years he has chaired the Premier League Doctors Group (the decision making body that governs medical care in the English Premier League).
Kelvin Giles is the former National Coach for UK Athletics and Director of Track & Field at the Australian Institute of Sport. Other substantive posts held in Australia include - Performance Director for the Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Club, Head of Athlete Services at the Queensland Academy of Sport and Director of S&C for Elite Player Development (Australian Rugby). He is the author of ‘The Physical Competence Assessment Manual’ and currently provides a consultancy service for elite sportsmen and sportswomen, and sporting organisations. He has worked with the Lawn Tennis Association, the Football Association, the Norwegian FA, the Home Nation Rugby teams (Wales, Ireland and Scotland), the Leicester Tigers RFC, the Australian Defence Forces and Australian Hockey.
Olivier Girard received his Ph.D. in Human Movement Sciences from the University of Montpellier (France) in December 2006. For his thesis he studied neuromuscular fatigue and the mechanical alterations in intermittent sporting activities, such as racquet sports. His particular research interests include the lower-limb contribution during the power serve as it relates to performance level and fatigue. In addition, he has developed field-based tests in tennis and squash and compared different training modalities in tennis and team sports. He has worked for 7 years as a physical conditioning expert for young elite tennis players at Team Aravis Competition. He is currently working as a research scientist within the Research and Education Centre in ASPETAR, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar – a post he has held since April 2008.To date, he has published more than 35 articles in peer-review journals and 10 book chapters.
Chris Harwood is a Reader in Applied Sport Psychology at Loughborough University and serves as the Lead Sport Psychologist for the LTA. His research expertise is firmly embedded within the social psychology of elite youth development. He has published extensively on matters related to achievement motivation, motivational climate, and psychological skills with an emphasis on the role of parents and coaches in talent environments. As a BASES High Performance Accredited Sport Scientist and Registered Psychologist, his practitioner work reflects his interest in triangulated player, coach and parent education and support work. Beyond his consultancy work within tennis, Chris manages the psychology service provision to Nottingham Forest FC Academy and is a Psychology Advisory Board member to the WTA Tour and the English Football Association (FA). He served as Vice-President of the European Federation of Sport Psychology until 2011, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.
Alex Ireland is a Research Assistant at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Institute for Biomedical Research into Human Movement and Health, a position he has held for three years. Having graduated with a Sport Science degree from Durham University and MSc in Sport and Exercise Physiology at MMU he then began his current role conducting and supporting research into human movement and ageing. He also has additional lecturing and student mentoring responsibilities within the School of Healthcare Science. Alex’s research interests centre on structural and functional changes in the musculoskeletal system within childhood/puberty and old age, as well as the effects of exercise/disuse and nutritional status on musculoskeletal health and performance. This work is concerned with health implications for the population at large, as well as performance and health issues in a high-performance/elite sport environment. His current research is investigating development and maintenance of muscle, tendon and bone structure and function in junior and veteran tennis players, and the impact of nutritional status on this process. In addition to his work with IRM, Alex provides sport science and strength and conditioning support for national and international-level athletes in a variety of sports.
Gino Kerkhoffs graduated with his medical degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1999 and received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2005. In 2006 he started work as an Orthopedic surgeon in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 2008 he returned to the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His professional interests are in arthroscopy, sports injuries, post-traumatic deformities, ankle/knee and shoulder surgery. Gino has published almost 70 papers in peer reviewed journals. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the KSSTA-Journal, the Open Journal of Sports Medicine and the Journal of Patient Related Outcome Measures. He has authored or co-authored nearly 20 book chapters and has presented at numerous scientific meetings throughout Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific. Gino is a member of the Dutch Medical Society, Dutch Orthopedic Society, Dutch Orthopaedic Traumatology Society, Dutch Orthopaedic Sports Traumatology Society, Dutch Sports Medicine Society, International Society for Arthroscopy Knee surgery and Orthopaedic Sports medicine and European Society of Sports traumatology Knee surgery and Arthroscopy. He is the current chair of the Sports Committee of ESSKA.
Karim Khan, MBBS, PhD, FACSP, is at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada and editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. A sports physician, Karim was a major contributor to the paradigm shift that ‘tendinopathies’ are not inflammatory conditions and this led to increased recognition of the need for active exercise as treatment – instead of cortisone and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Karim is also a strong advocate of physical activity for public health. Bone health and falls prevention has been one focus. He is a founding investigator in the $40 million research enterprise at UBC called the Centre for Hip Health and Mobility. Here over 100 investigators, including a large number of clinicians, collaborate to improve the health of Canadians across the lifespan by improving their mobility and promoting physical activity. Karim is well known to many through earlier editions of Brukner and Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine - now in its fourth edition (including online video Masterclasses). Karim practices what he preaches and incorporates a minimum of 60 minutes of physical activity into his daily activities by cycling to work and having walking meetings.
Michael Kjaer MD DMSci is Professor in Sports Medicine at the University of Copenhagen Denmark, as well as Head and Chief Physician at the Institute of Sports Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen. He is board certified specialist in Rheumatology. The main research area is extracellular matrix in tendon and skeletal muscle and its adaptation to mechanical loading - basal mechanisms and clinical relevance for tissue injury, tendon overloading and age-related muscle loss.
Heather McKay is Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Departments of Orthopaedics and Family Practice. She currently serves as Director, Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, an internationally renowned research centre that addresses challenging bone and joint health questions that span the life course. Professor McKay is a recognized leader in research that evaluates the positive role of physical activity and other lifestyle factors on child, youth and older adult health. She is well known for convening highly effective teams to “move research into action” (knowledge mobilization) and for performing research that has immediate impact. This is illustrated by her lead role in the development and implementation of a whole school physical activity and healthy eating model (Action Schools! BC) that engages almost half a million children in British Columbia, Canada. The outcomes of her school-based research influenced the development of new policy related to daily physical activity in schools. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research acknowledged Professor McKay’s contributions through a Knowledge Translation award (2009). Professor McKay was also the recipient of a BC Woman of Distinction Award for Health & Active Living (2009).
Robert Malina Ph.D. is professor emeritus in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education at University of Texas at Austin. He is alsoan adjunct research professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, and has appointments as visiting professor at Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK and at University School of Physical Education in Wroclaw, Poland. Dr. Malina has earned Ph.D. degrees in physical education (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1963) and in anthropology (University of Pennsylvania, 1968), and was the recipient of honorary doctoral degrees from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium, 1989), University School of Physical Education in Cracow (Poland, 2001), University School of Physical Education in Wrocław (Poland, 2006), and University of Coimbra (Portugal, 2008). A primary area of interest is the biological growth and maturation of children and adolescents with a major focus on young athletes and the influence of training for sport. He has worked extensively with the growth and maturation of young athletes including swimmer, divers, gymnasts, athletics, American football and soccer among others, and also with physical characteristics of intercollegiate women athletes. Dr. Malina has received many honors, including the Citation Award of the American College of Sports Medicine, Honor Award of the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine, and Distinguished Scholar Award of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, Hetherington Award of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, and Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award of the Human Biology Association. He is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Biological Sciences), and a member of many professional organizations. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Sports Sciences, Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, and Pediatric Exercise Science.
James Moore MPhty (Manips), MSc Applied Biomech, BSc (Hons), CSCS, is a highly experience musculoskeletal Physiotherapist who has specialist qualifications in spinal manipulative therapy and sports physiotherapy. He has over 12 years experience in elite sport. Currently James is a consultant Physiotherapist for UKA and the RFU, along with this he has been the medical team leader for Gloucestershire county cricket club, and has worked with sports throughout the UK, USA and Australia. He completed his Masters at University of Queensland in 2000, and has undertaken further studies and qualifications in Strength & Conditioning, Pilates and Biomechanics. James has lectured on hip and groin injuries for over 6 years and has a strong research interest in hip mechanics and muscle architecture.
Timothy Noakes is a Professor in the Discovery Health Chair of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of Cape Town. He is also Director of the UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine and co-founder with Morné du Plessis of the Sports Science Institute of South Africa (SSISA). He received the National Research Foundation rating as an A1-rated scientist. He has won many awards over the years, the most recent being the Order of Mapungubwe, Silver from the State President for “excellent contribution in the field of sports and the science of physical exercise”. He has authored many books and papers over the years including his book Lore of Running which is in its fourth edition and which has been published in countries worldwide. His latest book is The Art and Science of Cricket which he co-authored with Bob Woolmer and which was published in 2008. He is presently completing his autobiography and a book on the science of drinking during exercise and how this “science” was commercially manipulated with some fatal consequences.
Nicholas Peirce has been a Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) at the City Hospital and Queens Medical Centre Nottingham since 2000. He is currently the Chief Medical Officer for England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), a post he has held since 2007. After completing the Nottingham MSc in Sports Medicine in 1996, he spent 2 years as a Lecturer in SEM at Nottingham University with a subsequent post as Overseas Sports Medicine Fellow at the Australian Institute of Sport Canberra. Since 1996 he has had on-going responsibility as the Chief Medical Officer for the World Class Canoeing Program and attended the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games. He has been the team physician for the GB Davis Cup team (2001-2007) and, since 2000, the lead sports Physician for Nottingham Forest Football Club. He was the Lead Physician at the English Institute of Sport at Loughborough University until moving to cricket full time in 2010. His other responsibilities include being on the Editorial Boards of the BJSM and CJSM, the ICC Medical Committee and the Specialist Advisory Committee in training of SEM. He continues to be actively involved in research supervising PhDs at Loughborough
Babette Pluim, M.D., Ph.D., is a Sports Physician and is Medical Adviser of the Royal Netherlands Lawn Tennis Association. She is the team physician of the Dutch Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams, and tournament doctor at the ATP and WTA tournaments in ´s Hertogenbosch and Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Dr. Pluim is a member of the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Medical Committee, the ITF Sports Medical Commission, and the WADA Health, Medical and Research Commitee. She is deputy-editor of the British Journal in Sports Medicine, in charge of education. Dr. Pluim wrote a PhD thesis on “The Athlete’s Heart”. She has also been involved in several publications including co-editing the book ‘Tennis Medicine for Tennis Coaches’ with Miguel Crespo and Machar Reid, writing the chapter ‘Medical Care of Tennis Players’ for the IOC Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science: Tennis, and the chapter ‘The Epidemiology of Tennis Injuries’ for the IOC book ‘The Epidemiology of Injury in Olympic Sports’. With Marc Safran she wrote the book ‘From Breakpoint to Advantage: a Practical Guide for Optimal Tennis Health and Performance’. In 2009 the Dutch edition was published, entitled ‘Ace or Brace - a Handbook for Healthy Tennis’.
Ryan M. Rodenberg is an assistant professor at Florida State University in Tallahasse, Florida, USA. He earned his J.D. from the University of Washington-Seattle and Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington. Prior to academia, he was Associate General Counsel at Octagon in its Washington, DC headquarters. He also worked at the ATP World Tour and Nike. His primary research lines involve sports law analytics and forensic sports law. He has published eight articles about the legality and efficacy of age eligibility rules in tennis, golf, basketball, and gymnastics. His current research involves the development of a legal framework and statistical screening device to detect/prevent gambling-related corruption, referee bias, and doping in sports.
Marc Safran is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Associate Director of Sports Medicine and Team Physician at Stanford University. Dr. Safran has been honored with the Dr. Irving Glick award from the WTA, and received the Tennis Education Merit Award from the United States Tennis Association. He is also the president of the Society of Tennis Medicine and Science. He has authored more than 75 book chapters, 110 papers, and given more than 800 presentations at local, regional, national and international conferences. He edited, wrote or co-edited 5 books, including a tennis medicine book with Babette Pluim, From Breakpoint To Advantage. A Practical Guide to Tennis Health And Performance which has been translated into three languages. In addition to being the chief Orthopaedic Surgery consultant to the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), he has served as the medical director for the WTA Professional Tournament in San Diego, California (1995 - 2008) and for the Association for Tennis Professional (ATP) professional tennis tournament in San Jose, California (2002 – present), neutral site physician for several US Davis Cup Ties. Dr. Safran has a keen interest in tennis injuries and their prevention and continues to do research in this area.
Becky Stevenson is a registered dietitian with expertise in paediatric and sports dietetics and is the Sport Nutrition Service manager for the LTA. She trained through the Leeds Metropolitan University and University College London Hospital to become a dietitian. She then followed her interest in sports nutrition and completed her MSc with the Royal London Hospital Sport Medicine department. Following her studies she work as a research dietitian with the MRC Childhood Nutrition Group, at the Institute of Child Health, London gaining experience in body composition techniques while working on the ‘reference child’. She continued her interest in childhood nutrition and joined the NHS as a clinical dietitian and how worked over 10 years in the main London teaching hospitals as a paediatric dietitian. She still covers outpatient clinics at the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust. During this period Becky qualified as a sports dietitian and has worked in elite sport as a Performance Nutritionist for England Institute of Sport, UKathletics and now the LTA. She provides nutritional support to the Aegon, Davis and Fed cup teams. Becky is a recent graduate of the International Olympic Committee Sports Nutrition Diploma.
Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen is a Professor of Physical Activity and Health at the Department of Sports Medicine at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. She is also Vice president of the National Council on Physical Activity. For 15 years she also was at the Medical Department at the National Olympic Training Center and Chair of the Nutrition Department. Under the auspices of the I.O.C Medical Commission she was part of the The Female Athlete Triad working group and is part of an ad Hoc Research Working Group on Body Composition, Health and Performance. She was co-author of the ACSM position paper on the Female Athlete Triad. Her main research area is the female athlete triad. Professor Sundgot-Borgen is also a former national team gymnast and coach.
Michael Tipton, Professor of Human & Applied Physiology, University of Portsmouth, UK. Educated at the Universities of Keele and London, Professor Tipton joined the University of Surrey in 1986. After 12 years in the Robens Institute and European Institute of Health and Medical Science he moved to the University of Portsmouth in 1999. In addition to his University positions, Professor Tipton was based at the Institute of Naval Medicine (INM) from 1983 to 2004 and was Consultant Head of the Environmental Medicine Unit of the INM from 1996. He has spent over 25 years researching and advising in the areas of thermoregulation, environmental and occupational physiology and survival in the sea. He has published over 350 scientific papers, reports, chapters and books in these areas. Professor Tipton is a consultant in survival and thermal medicine to the Royal Air Force and UKSport; he sits on the RNLI’s Medical & Survival Committee, Surf Lifesaving GB’s medical advisory panel and Chairs UKSport’s Research Advisory Group. Professor Tipton is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Jules van de Veen is a sports physiotherapist and the Managing Director at VSO-Papendal and the VSO-Network. He has a special interest in foot, shoe and gait analysis in athletes with injuries and the assessment of abnormal foot positioning, abnormal foot-fall and roll-off, and functionally insufficient shoes. He is based fulltime at the Netherlands Olympic Committee National Sports Centre in Papendal (near Arnhem in Eastern Holland) where VSO-Papendal is based. The rest of the VSO-Network consists of another 18 locations in the Netherlands where VSO foot and gait analysis is available. In addition to seeing patients at the Dutch National Sports Centre, he is responsible for the quality of the orthotics, research into the applicability of the latest materials (and production techniques), and the initiation of new footwear research. He is a guest lecturer at the MSc. in Sports physiotherapy at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and at the SOMT in Amersfoort.
Mathew Wilson is the cardiovascular physiologist at ASPETAR, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital and was formally the Physiology Laboratory Director at the Research Centre for Sports and Exercise Performance, University of Wolverhampton. He has wide experience in the field of cardiac screening having worked as the cardiac screening manager at the Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) Centre for Sports Cardiology within the Olympic Medical Institute, Northwick Park, London. His PhD thesis focused on the athlete's heart and sudden cardiac death in young and veteran athletes. He has personally been responsible for screening over 10,000 athletes and his research group has published widely on the subject of sudden cardiac death.