Dr Tim Barbour

Sports Physician
MB BS, FACSP, FRACGP
OPSMC

Dr Paul Blackman

Sports Physician
MB BS (Hons) FACSP FFSEM (UK)
OPSMC since 1993

Paul Blackman gained fellowship of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians in 1996, winning the college medal for the best candidate. He has extensive experience in AFL working with North Melbourne Kangaroos and Richmond, then Collingwood from 1997 to the current day as chief medical officer. Paul has also worked with the Australian Socceroos, Judo Victoria, Swimming Victoria and the Victorian Weightlifting Federation. His special interests are exercise induced leg pain, knee, shoulder and hip/groin pain.

Dr Peter Brukner

Sports Physician
MB BS DRCOG FACSP FASMF FACSM OAM
OPSMC

Dr. Peter Brukner is a world-renowned sports physician who has vast Olympic and professional team expertise. In 1996, he received the Inaugural Honour Award from the Australian College of Sports Physicians. Dr Peter Brukner has had two terms as President of the Australian College of Sports Physicians and is currently Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine (CHESM), University of Melbourne.

Dr. Adam Castricum

Sports and Exercise Physician
MB BS (Monash) FACSP MSpMed(Res)
OPSMC

Adam Castricum gained his Fellowship with the Australasian College of Sports Physicians in 2008, after sucessfully completing 6 years of training in Melbourne and Sydney. He has recently been appointed Medical Director for Athletics Australia. His professional areas of interest include athletics, all codes of football, alpine skiing, lower limb injuries, exercise prescription, adolescent injuries and exercise induced asthma, on which he completed his Masters Research in 2008.

Dr Neels du Toit

Sports Physician
MBChB (UFS, RSA), DipSEM(Bath, UK) FACSP
OPSMC since 2006

Dr Neels du Toit achieved his primary medical qualification in 1997 from the University of the Freestate, South Africa. He then completed a diploma in Sports and Exercise Medicine from Bath University, UK. He worked as a Sports Physician registrar at the Brisbane Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre and joined OPSMC in 2006. Neels completed his specialist Sports Physician fellowship from the Australasian College of Sports Physicians in 2008.

Dr Greg Harris

Sports & Exercise Physician
MB BS(Hons) FACSP
OPSMC Since Jan 2006

Having graduated from Monash University in 1998, Dr Greg Harris spent several years in Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine before working as an expedition doctor in Australia and overseas. After training in Melbourne and Darwin, he gained his Fellowship as a Sports and Exercise Physician in 2008. His professional interests include foot and ankle injuries, cycling, expedition medicine and motor sports.

Dr Andrew Jowett

Sports Physician  
MB BS MSc (Sports Med, Uni of London) Hons FACSP
OPMSC Since 1995
Medical Director OPSMC

Dr Andrew Jowett realized at a young age that despite his obsession with sport and diverse sporting interests that he was never destined for a career as a sportsman. Throughout his medical training, however, he maintained his links and interests in sport to develop his expertise combining both passions. This culminated in the fabulous adventure that was the World Cup in Germany 2006 as the Socceroos national team doctor.

Dr Michael Makdissi

Sports Physician
MB BS BSc. (Hons) PhD FACSP
OPSMC

Michael Makdissi completed his initial medical training at St. Vincent’s hospital in Melbourne before commencing as a sports medicine registrar in 2001. Since this time, Michael has been involved in providing sports medicine coverage for a range of sports including Australian Rules football, netball, cricket, rugby league, track and field, cycling, swimming, gymnastics, boxing and volleyball at recreational through to elite levels.

Sports and Exercise Physician
MB.ChB Dip.Child Health Dip. Obstet. PGC Sports Med. FRNZCGP FACSP
OPSMC

Tony Page worked full time in General Practice for 14 years, gaining valuable general experience in dealing with a range of age groups. He made the change from delivering babies and looking after toddlers to full time Sport and Exercise Medicine in 2003. While he enjoys caring for athletes of all ages and abilities he has been kept busy as doctor for the Canterbury Rugby Union, assistant doctor Richmond Tigers and the Crusaders Super 14 Rugby Union team. Apart from the oval ball codes he has a personal and professional interest in running, cycling and snow sports.

Sports Medicine Registrar
MBChB PGDipSportMed
OPSMC

Dr Craig Panther has worked in Emergency medicine and also part-time in Sports medicine, since gaining his Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Medicine from the University of Auckland in 1997. In that time Craig has worked mainly in Auckland but recently spent 18 months working full-time in Sports Medicine at Pure Sports Medicine (a multidisciplinary clinic in London, UK) and at English Premier League club Fulham FC.

Dr Larissa Trease

Sports & Exercise Medicine Registrar
MB BS (Hons)
OPSMC

Dr Lari Trease is a 4th year Sport & Exercise Medicine Registrar who has recently returned to OPSMC after time away working at the AIS and for the Australian Paralympic Committee. She was the Chief Medical Officer for the Australian Beijing Paralympic Team and has worked closely with able bodied and disabled athletes in the world sporting arena. Her professional interests include adolescent and female sports medicine problems, winter sports, athletes with a disability and multidiscipline & endurance races.

Dr Susan White

Sports Physician
MB BS FACSP FASM
OPSMC since 1992

Dr. Susan White’s initial medical training was completed at Monash University and Prince Henry’s Hospital in Melbourne, completing her medical elective at the AIS in 1988. Susan commenced as a Registrar at OPSMC in 1992, completing her sports physician specialist training and was awarded a fellowship in 1996. Susan’s professional areas of interests include swimming, netball, rowing, pregnancy and exercise, paralympic sport, drugs in sport and women in sport. Susan is currently Chief Medical Officer for Swimming Australia and Team Doctor for the Swim team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Sports Medicine Registrar
MB BS
OPSMC

Dr Rebecca Young graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2002 and has a background in Emergency Medicine and Trauma Surgery. She completed her basic surgical training with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and spent time in advanced training in Orthopaedic surgery.

In 2008 she began to pursue her interests in Sports and Exercise Medicine, providing medical coverage for the Australian U/20 and U/17 Women’s Soccer teams, The Homeless World Cup and The University Games.