The Australian Sports Medicine Story: From Nothing to Specialty Status by Prof. Peter Brukner

Описание: A session on 15th November 2024 (first day of the conference, KN Udupa Auditorium) in 2nd International Conference of Indian Society of Sports and Exercise Medicine-2024 (2nd ISSEMCON-2024) organised by Sports-Exercise Medicine & Sciences: Lifestyle & Performance Medicine (Physiological Medicine: Clinical & Interventional Physiology) Lab./Unit/Division, Department of Physiology, Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS), Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Kashi, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

PETER BRUKNER
OAM, MBBS, DSc (honoris causa), FACSEP, FASMF, FACSM, FFSEM

Peter Brukner, OAM is a specialist sports and exercise physician who is the founding partner of Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne and Professor of Sports Medicine at LaTrobe University. A founding Executive Member of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians, he served two terms as President and played a key role in establishing sports medicine as a medical specialty in Australia.

Peter is the co-author of the widely used text book Clinical Sports Medicine and has been team physician for professional football clubs as well as national athletics, swimming, soccer and men’s hockey teams including Olympic and Commonwealth Games. Peter was the Socceroos Team Doctor at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and subsequently became Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club. He then served asAustralian cricket team doctor from 2012-17, and as a consultant to the Melbourne Football Club during their premiership year in 2021.

Peter is the co-founder of the public health campaign Sugar By Half and is committed to the challenge of improving the nation’s health with improved diet and increased physical activity. His best selling book A Fat Lot of Good was published in 2018. Peter is also the Founder and Chair of Defeat Diabetes, an app- and web-based program, aimed at improving diabetes control through diet. His latest book The Diabetes Planwas published in March 2023.

In 2022 Peter was awarded a Doctor of Science honoris causa by La Trobe University and delivered the inaugural Peter Brukner Distinguished Lecture. He was recently awarded the 2023 Premier’s Outstanding Contribution to Victorian Sport Award.