Sports Medicine Australia proudly sponsors the ‘Karen Schneider SMA Safer Sport Award’ which was created by SMA to celebrate Karen Schneider’s contribution to sports and exercise physiotherapy in the NT. The award will be presented at the Northern Territory Sports Awards to a person or persons who have contributed to creating a safer sporting environment … Continue Reading
Sports Medicine Australia is pleased to release our Annual Report for FY 2021/22.
Australia should consider issuing heading guidelines in football (soccer) to reduce the heading burden in children and adolescents and to raise awareness for the seriousness of all types of head injuries says leading European football physician, Professor Dr Tim Meyer. Professor Meyer, Editor-in-Chief of Sports Medicine Australia’s (SMA) Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport … Continue Reading
Professor John Bloomfield AO was one of the main architects and drivers of the modern Australian sport system. He was foundation professor at Australia’s first university based Department of Human Movement (UWA 1974) and President of the Australian Sports Medicine Federation, now Sports Medicine Australia (1971). He was the driving force behind the foundation of … Continue Reading
Jamie Crain, CEO of Sports Medicine Australia (SMA), is delighted to announce Professor Dr Tim Meyer, Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (JSAMS) and Chair of both the German Football Association and UEFA’s medical committee, is headlining SMA’s Football Medicine Forum. SYDNEY | Friday 7 October – Valentine Sports Park, Glenwood The … Continue Reading
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (JSAMS), Professor Dr (med) Tim Meyer recently hosted a publication workshop for Latin American and Caribbean academics. Joining Professor Meyer as hosts were: Professor Isabel Sacco – Editorial Board Member, Professor Claudio Gil de Araujo – Editorial Board Member, and Dr Danilo De Oliveira Silva … Continue Reading
Sports Medicine Australia is thrilled to bring you the program for the 2022 SMA Conference taking place at the RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast from 16-19 November. As one of the largest sports medicine events in the Southern Hemisphere, this Conference Program includes an impressive line-up of expert speakers across all sports medicine disciplines. … Continue Reading
Sports Medicine Australia is delighted to announce that Dr Esther van Sluijs is joining us at the 2022 SMA Conference as a Keynote Speaker. Dr van Sluijs leads a program on Behavioural Epidemiology and Interventions in Young People at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. Her research uses observational evidence to further enhance the … Continue Reading
Sports Medicine Australia is pleased to welcome Professor Karyn Esser (Ph.D) as one of the Keynote Speakers for the 2022 SMA Conference. Dr. Esser is Professor of Physiology and Functional Genomics, and Associate Director of the Myology Institute at the University of Florida. Her lab has been working in the area of skeletal muscle adaptation … Continue Reading
Sports Medicine Australia is excited to introduce Prof. John Hawley as one of the Keynote Speakers for the 2022 SMA Conference, taking place from November 16-19 at RACV Royal Pines Resort in Gold Coast. Prof. Hawley is currently the Director of the Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research and Head of the Exercise and Nutrition … Continue Reading