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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 p...

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. H...

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...

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 applic...

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 ambitio...

SARAH MURRAY, SENIOR PSYCHOLOGIST, BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION FC Sarah is currently women’s senior psychologist at Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club working with the first team in the WSL top tier. Having joined BHAFC in 2013 she was tasked with setting up performance psychology across the whole club, performance psychology is integrated fully from the bottom up and from the top down within both...

DR PAUL BALSOM, SPORTS SCIENTIST & UEFA PRO-QUALIFED COACH, LEICESTER CITY FC Dr Paul Balsom is a sports scientist and UEFA pro-qualified coach, with over 20 years of international experience at the highest level of FIFA and UEFA football match activities. He has been a member of the backroom staff at Leicester City since 2008 and King Power owned club OH Leuven in Belgium since 2017. He is also P...

Karen Carney is a retired footballer and ex-Olympian who played for Birmingham City/Arsenal/Chicago Red Stars/Chelsea/ over 100 caps for England and Team GB. Karen is a current commentator and pundit at the BBC and BT Sport where she provides expert analysis on various games. She is highly skilled in Sports Science and Sports Psychology and has an MSc focussed in Performance Psychology. She is als...

....how to feed back scientific investigations. Dr Will Abbott, Academy Performance Manager at Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club. Will is the Academy Performance Manager at Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club having previously gained experience working as a strength & conditioning and sport science practitioner at the club. Will’s current role is to lead a team of S&C, sport science, nutrition...

Dr Jonny Gordon is as an Emergency Medicine Consultant in Glasgow and is the first team doctor to the men’s Scotland national football squad. He has also been the first team doctor at Celtic FC and was the Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2007 Jonny founded the company SportPromote to provide education and equipment to health care professionals involved with...

Dr Jonathan Hanson, Sports Medicine Consultant Dr Jonathan Hanson is a Sports Medicine Consultant with a background in emergency medicine. He worked as an emergency care advisor to the FA and worked on head injury systems and immediate care to the Mens team at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Jonathan wrote the FA Area course which preceded the current ATMIF course. Jonathan is currently team doctor at Gl...

Dr Liam Anderson, Head of Sports Science & Medicine, Crewe Alexandra FC Interviewed by Dr Andrew Shafik, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Northern Deanery, BJSM reviewer and Editorial Board Member at FMPA’s publication ‘football medicine & performance’.

Dr Gouttebarge is Chief Medical Officer at Fifpro Interviewed by Dr Andrew Shafik, Foundation Year 2 Doctor, Northern Deanery, BJSM reviewer and Editorial Board Member at FMPA's publication 'football medicine & performance'