FMPA

Dr Dan Martin

Dr Dan Martin is the Consultant Performance Nutritionist for Southampton FC’s First Team. Prior to joining Southampton, he worked with Huddersfield Town FC’s First Team. He also currently works with the Haas Formula 1 Team, The Professional Jockeys Association and the English Institute of Sport. He completed both his PhD in performance nutrition and behaviour change and post-doctoral research at Liverpool John Moores University, where he's now a research supervisor for PhD students alongside his applied roles.

Links:

• Twitter: @nutritiondan

• Instagram: @nutritiondanm

Dr Laura Bowen is Lead Sport Scientist for Southampton FC Women & Girls and in the past worked as a Sport Scientist with Southampton’s men’s First Team. She also works as a Consultant at FIFA. She has done a PhD on workloads and injury risk in Premier League Football and has a bachelor’s degree in Sports and Exercise Sciences, both of these from the University of Birmingham.

DR NICKY KEAY

Nicky is a world-renowned Sport Endocrine Specialist; She currently has roles as an honorary clinical lecturer in Medicine at University College London and a Research Fellow in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University. Nicky has gained extensive clinical and research experience in both Endocrinology and Sport and Dance Medicine involving elite athletes, professional ballet dancers and young aspiring athletes

She has a particular interest in menstrual cycle hormone monitoring, and has conducted research into the energy availability status of professional female football players as well as writing the Health4Performance BASEM educational resource on relative energy deficiency in sport

Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, Saul is a General Dentist with a special interest in the area of Sports Dentistry, working to promote oral health amongst the sporting community. He qualified with his Dental degree from Kings College London Dental Institute but has previously completed a bachelor’s degree in Physiology & Pharmacology from Bristol, University of the West of England, and a master’s degree in International Health Policy from the London School of Economics.

Saul has a special interest in sports dentistry and has worked with a number of players across English league clubs as well as other sportspeople in order to optimise their oral health

HUGO SCHECKTER – FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR, THE PLAYER CARE GROUP

Hugo started The Player Care Group after leaving West Ham United FC, where he was Head of Player Care from 2018 to the end of 2020. He was brought in by the Hammers to create the Player Care department from scratch, inheriting a difficult situation and turning it into a smoothly functioning department with an effective staff who possessed complementary skills. Prior to that, Hugo was at Southampton FC as their first Player/Team Liaison Officer, setting up their Player Care offering and helping to make Southampton FC a springboard for some of the world’s best footballing talent.

ENDA KING PhD MSc combines his roles as a sports physiotherapist, strength and conditioning coach, researcher, and educator through his work with individual athletes and elite teams across a spectrum of sports and disciplines. Currently, he is Head of Performance Rehabilitation with Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin, Ireland and traveling internationally to work with athletes and professional clubs. He currently lives in Ireland with his wife Michelle and their 3 children Eleanor, Ethan and Iarlaith.

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ANNA WEST

Anna West is a Sleep, Recovery and Well-Being Specialist working with Brentford FC and Founder of Sleep2Perform, a high-performance consultancy who specialise in sleep and recovery.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-west-1baa972/

Twitter: Anna S.V. West @AnnaSVWest https://twitter.com/annasvwest?lang=en

DR PATRICK O’HALLORAN – SPORT AND EXERCISE MEDICINE REGISTRAR

Dr Patrick O’Halloran is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Registrar in the West Midlands. He is the current matchday Doctor with Worcester Warriors as well as the England Women’s Rugby Pathway Doctor. Patrick is also a member of the NICE Head Injury Guideline update committee. As part of his work on head injuries, Patrick has been involved in development of the groundbreaking saliva diagnostic test of concussion as a Senior Medical Advisor with Marker Diagnostics UK Ltd

Paul specialises in implementing the mental tools required to elevate the performance of leaders and teams from organisations across the world; especially financial services, technology, and the professional services industry. He has recently worked with PWC, Grant Thornton, Aviva, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Nat West, Microsoft, Cisco and many more.

The insights that Paul shares are even more applicable today in our remote and virtual workplaces, which help empower individuals to understand that our mindset and thinking habits unlock the required behaviours that are necessary for elite performance.

Paul shares his psychological framework from growing up in war torn Belfast, Ireland alongside the strategies he implemented performing under the intense scrutiny of 75,000 fans across the world. He is also an established broadcaster on TV and radio with BBC, Sky Sports, BT Sport and is a published author of the ironically entitled book ‘The Stupid Footballer is Dead’.

The insights Paul shared as a Sport Psychologist for two Premier League clubs, Crystal Palace and Norwich City, he has helped a number of players compete in, what is considered, the most prestigious and ruthless sports league in the world.

RACHEL DAVIS, HEAD OF MEDICAL, HARROGATE TOWN FC

Rachel Davis has a BSc Degree in Sport and Exercise Therapy and an MSc in Physiotherapy from Leeds Beckett University. She started her career in non-league football working for Wakefield FC and Harrogate Railway FC before securing a position within the Leeds United FC Academy, working with the U9-U16.

Working with a first team was always her ambition so in 2014 she applied and was successful for the first team physiotherapy role at Harrogate Town AFC, who were then in the National League North. Alongside working part time with Harrogate she worked as a Physiotherapist at Henshaws College, doing hydrotherapy and rebound therapy for students with cerebral palsy and other physical and learning disabilities.

In 2017 Town turned full time and Rachel became Head Physiotherapist and Head of Medical for the club. Harrogate got promoted to the EFL in August 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic and becomes the only female Head Physiotherapist in the EFL.