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

Performance Nutrition and Behaviour Change

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.

Rehabilitation and return to sport after ACL reconstruction - Dr Matthew Buckthorpe

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.

STRATEGIES FOR FOOTBALLERS COMPETING IN HOT WEATHER

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...

A challenge for health and mentality

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.

IV NUTRITION / DRIPS USE AND THE RISKS

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.

WELLBEING AND CHALLENGES OF A PLAYING AND COACHING CAREER

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.

THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE - MIKE DAVIDSON

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.

Heart Conditions and Sudden Cardiac Death in Elite Footballers

Professor Christa Jansevan Rensburg interviewed by Eleanor Trezise

 Professor Christa Janse van Rensburg  is a Consultant Rheumatologist, experienced Sports Physician and the Head of the Section Sports Medicine at the University of Pretoria where she oversees the teaching of sport and exercise medicine doctors and conducts research. Notably, she was the team doctor for the South Africa National Olympic Team to the Athens 2004 Olympics and was the medical venue officer for the Loftus Stadium in South Africa during the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2009 and FIFA World Cup in 2010. She was recently appointed the Chair of the Medical Advisory Panel for World Netball. She has investigated the effects of travelling on athletes and in 2020 published a systematic review on this topic in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. She is also a project partner and supervisor of the Drake Football Study, a project which is tracking the mental and physical health of 170 footballers over a 10-year period.

How to combat jet lag and travel fatigue in elite footballers

Dr Joanne Parsons and Dr Sheree Bekker

Dr Joanne Parsons is a Physiotherapist and Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada. Dr Sheree Bekker is an Associate Professor in Injury Prevention at the University of Bath in the UK. They have published a review in the British Journal of Sports Medicine on anterior cruciate ligament injuries that discusses gendered influences on injury rates in girls and women.

FLIPPING THE SCRIPT ON WOMEN’S ACL INJURY PREVENTION & MANAGEMENT

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