SMA Presidents

SMA Presidents are elected based on service to, and an in-depth knowledge of SMA and the wider multidisciplinary sports medicine industry. 

Since the association’s inception in 1963, SMA’s Presidents have been:  

• 2022 – Present: Dr Kay Copeland
• 2019 – 2022: Prof Gregory Kolt
• 2015 – 2019: Dr Andrew Jowett
• 2013 – 2015: Dr Peter Nathan
• 2012 – 2013: Mr Michael Kenihan
• 2009 – 2012: Mr Tim Pain
• 2007 – 2009: Mr Michael Kenihan
• 2005 – 2007: Dr Bruce Mitchell
• 2003 – 2005: Ms Marilyn Feenstra
• 2001 – 2003: Dr Anita Green
• 1999 – 2001: Dr Shane Conway
• 1997 – 1999: Dr Graham Allen
• 1994 – 1997: Dr Peter Larkins
• 1992 – 1994: Mr David Roberts
• 1990 – 1992: Dr Fred Better
• 1988 – 1990: Dr Brian Sando
• 1987 – 1988: Dr Tony Parker
• 1985 – 1986: Mr John Hart
• 1982 – 1984: Dr Bill Webb
• 1981 – 1982: Dr Kevin Hobbs
• 1979 – 1981: Dr Jack Refshauge
• 1978 – 1979: Dr Ken Fitch
• 1977 – 1978: Dr Kevin Hobbs
• 1975 – 1977: Dr Geoffrey Vanderfield
• 1973 – 1975: Mr Howard Toyne
• 1971 – 1973: Prof John Bloomfield
• 1969 – 1971: Dr Owen Bowering
• 1967 – 1969: Dr Brian Corrigan
• 1966 – 1967: Dr Leigh Wedlick
• 1965 – 1966: Dr Jim Pannell
• 1963 – 1965: Dr Robert Puflett