FMPA

Professor Aneil Malhotra is a consultant cardiologist and an expert in sports cardiology. He is the lead cardiologist for multiple elite sports teams including Manchester City, Leeds United and Burnley. He also works with Manchester United, the England national football teams and British Cycling. He studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and has also spent time at MIT and Harvard. He completed a PhD in inherited heart diseases and sports cardiology at St George’s, University of London and is now based in Manchester undertaking a large programme of work around the athlete’s heart at Manchester University and Manchester Metropolitan University. He has over one hundred peer-reviewed publications and has co-authored and contributed to books in cardiology and medicine.

Mike has been part of the international Sports Medicine and Performance community for over 20 years. A former Strategy & Business Architecture Consultant with Accenture, his professional path diverted into the Sports and Health industries whilst undertaking his MBA at Oxford University.

Since 2002 he has actively worked to professionalise and raise standards within Performance and Medical departments in sport globally, through the recruitment of diverse talent, the building of global knowledge networks and practically working with organisations on their people, systems and processes.

His passion is to connect people and implement world leading ideas. He is also academically published in the field of injury epidemiology and prevention of injuries, and is a Board Member of the Football Research Group that conducts injury and performance analysis studies for UEFA.

He is currently the Head of International for Isokinetic Medical Group, and an organisational design and professional development consultant for Brooklyn Nets, Houston Texans and Red Bull Performance.

Stephen Reid

Steven began his playing career at Millwall FC before a move to the Premier League with Blackburn Rovers. He then went on to play 5 more seasons in the Premier league with WBA and Burnley.

Steven’s coaching career began at Reading FC with Steve Clarke helping them to a playoff final before moving on to Crystal Palace FC alongside Roy Hodgson. He then helped the Scotland National Team to their first tournament in 22 years at the 2021 EUROS. Steven left his role to concentrate on club duties at Nottingham Forest helping them return to the Premier League after 23 years.

After promotion Steven decided to pursue a different career in Wellbeing, Confidence and Leadership coaching alongside Counselling studies.

FMPA Education Team Member Eleanor Trezise interviews Professor Charlie Pedlar. Professor Pedlar is a Professor of Applied Sports and Exercise Science at St Mary’s University, an Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health at UCL, and Chief Science and Research Officer at Orreco. He has previously had roles at the British Olympic Association and English Institute of Sport. He currently works with professional athletes from a variety of sports including basketball, ice hockey and football.

Ahmed Hegazy, is an Egyptian international with over 100 caps

for the national team, who has also played at the top level in the Egyptian league, Serie A Italian league, English Premier League and Championship. Ahmed now plays in the Saudi Super League and is enjoying good form with his team.

Ahmed has valuable experience at international level. He played at the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup, twice at the U21 World Cup and the FIFA Arab Cup, which was held last year at the same time in the football season as the 2022 World Cup. So, Ahmed will be able to tell us about his experience playing a FIFA tournament during the season...

Dave Tenney

In the first of 3 Qatar 2022 themed pods we chat with Austin FC’s High Performance Director, Dave Tenney, about strategies that help footballers competing in hot conditions.

KATIE STANISLAS

Menstrual Cycle Dysfunction and RED-S in Football

Katie Stanislas is a physiotherapist and hydrotherapist working at Isokinetic Medical Group, one of FIFA’s Centres of Medical Excellence. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy at the University of Nottingham. She has a keen interest in and has conducted research into menstrual cycle dysfunction in athletes, including relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S).

Dr Matthew Buckthorpe is an educator, applied researcher and practitioner focusing on sports injury rehabilitation, prevention, and performance coaching. He has worked as a sport injury rehabilitation specialist and R&D specialist with the Isokinetic Medical Group. He has recently transitioned to academia, now as a senior lecturer in Strength and conditioning and physiology at St Mary’s University, Twickenham.

Dr Todd is a registered osteopath, lecturer, published author and a certified strength and conditioning specialist. Academic qualifications includes, a PhD in orthopaedics and clinical science, Masters degree in sport injury medicine and an Honours degree in osteopathy.

His professional experience includes consultant osteopath to The Football Association since 2005, has provided osteopathic care for 200 international games, later this year he’ll be attending his fifth FIFA World Cup, Qatar 2022 and has previously attended FIFA World Cup tournaments, Germany 2006, South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018; UEFA European Championships Poland & Ukraine 2012; France 2016; Euro 2020. Consultant Osteopath to Chelsea Football Club since 2008 and for Athletics since 2019, specifically providing trackside support for Dina Asher-Smith.

Other consultancy roles includes Team GB male and female Basketball at the London 2012 Olympics, British Athletics at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and many other clubs including; Real Madrid, IFK Gothenburg, Manchester United FC, Manchester City FC, Liverpool FC, Tottenham Hotspur FC, Portsmouth FC, West Bromich Albion FC, and Worcestershire County Cricket Club.

His clinical experience with both elite and amateur level athletes has led to Carl developing his own unique style of integrating osteopathy and corrective exercise rehabilitation, encompassing bio-psychosocial, biomechanical, and functional rehabilitation for patient management and re-education. His unique areas of interest are spine, hip and groin rehabilitation pre and post surgery and specifically injury prevention. Carl lectures regularly at medical conferences both nationally and internationally on the subject of sports injury management and rehabilitation, and has designed and delivers his own CPD courses on Functional integrated approaches to managing the athlete.

DR AVINASH CHANDRAN

Athlete Health Through the Lifespan – Insights from Epidemiological Perspectives on Women’s Soccer Athletes

Dr Chandran joined the Datalys Center in January 2020 as the Director of the NCAA Injury Surveillance Program. Prior to joining the Datalys Center, Dr. Chandran was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he concurrently worked within the Matthew-Gfeller Sport-Related TBI Research Center, the Center for Study of Retired Athletes, and the Injury Prevention Research Center. Dr. Chandran is a quantitative Epidemiologist, and his research interests are, broadly, in athlete health over the lifespan.

Links:

https://www.datalyscenter.org/index.php

@DatalysCenter

https://www.linkedin.com/company/datalys-center-for-sports-injury-research-and-prevention-inc/about/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34280278/

JAT publication: https://meridian.allenpress.com/jat/article/56/7/651/467938/Epidemiology-of-Injuries-in-National-Collegiate

JIIS publication (former women’s soccer athletes): https://journals.ku.edu/jis/article/view/14523