Meet the Sports Medicine Australia board members.
Chair
Dr Kay Copeland
Specialist Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist (VIC)
Deputy Chair
Tim Pain
Podiatrist (TAS)
Tim has over 25 years’ experience as a podiatrist and has over 20 years experience running a private practice. Along with being a member of the Sports Medicine Australia Board, Tim has also been the State President of the Australian Podiatry Association of (Tas).
Director
Professor Garry Allison
Sports Physiotherapist, Researcher, Academic, Curtin University (WA)
Director
Professor Belinda Beck
Exercise Science (QLD)
Director
Professor Gregory Kolt
Dean of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University (NSW)
Director
Dr Laura Lallenec
Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician (VIC)
Director
Associate Professor Anthony Leicht
Exercise Science Academic (QLD)
Anthony Leicht is an experienced academic and exercise scientist with >25 years of tertiary teaching experience. He is an experienced researcher with expertise and an international reputation in human performance including the assessment of performance and physiological responses to exercise/sport/occupational tasks. His research foci have involved cross-sectional and longitudinal studies examining human physiology and performance of elite athletes, healthy adults, and those with chronic disease states. He is a Fellow of Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA), European College of Sport Science and Sports Medicine Australia (SMA). He chairs accreditation review panels of sport and exercise science university programs for ESSA and is/has been a Board member of several local/national organisations.
Director
Dr Samantha McLeod
Sport and Exercise Psychologist, Clinical Health Psychologist (VIC)
Dr Samantha McLeod is dually Ph.D. qualified in Sport and Exercise Psychology and Clinical Health Psychology, Founder and Managing Director of The SAM Centre. Over a 30 year career, Samantha has successfully combined private practice in multidisciplinary settings, with State and National-level elite and professional teams consultancy, as well as clinical governance leadership roles and specialist academic positions. Samantha has previous Chair experience in the sports industry (3 years WNBL Melbourne Boomers Committee; representative on WNBL Commission). Samantha has researched, published, and lectured in, sport psychology, sports medicine, including athletic injury risk and recovery as well as athlete chronic conditions. Her mission is to shift sports medicine towards a holistic, integrated, collaborative framework for high performance sport, and to enhance the wellbeing and performance of athletes, as well as the practitioners, upskilling them to thrive within, and when transitioning out of, sport.
Director
Gary Nicholls
Sports and Exercise Physiotherapist (VIC)