Dr Greg Harris

Sports Physician
MB BS FACSP
OPSMC Since Jan 2006

Dr Greg Harris has worked in Sports Medicine since 2001, having had many years of Emergency and ICU experience. He gained his Fellowship of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians in 2008 and is a member of Sports Medicine Australia and of the International Society for Mountain Medicine.

He has been involved with a number of elite sporting teams and organisations including Richmond AFL Football Club, the AIS Under 23 Cycling squad, the NT Institute of Sport, the NT Mosquitoes Rugby Union team and the 2008 UCI Cycling World Cup in Melbourne. He has been an expedition doctor in Australia and overseas, and is an IOC Sports Medicine Course Director for the Oceania region.

Greg’s research interests include high-altitude medicine and physiology, and his professional interests include all levels of sports medicine, particularly cycling, cricket, golf, hockey, football and motor sports.

Personal interests include the great outdoors, family and friends, trying to keep fit and golf when possible. He enjoys being an armchair mountaineer when he cannot get away in person.

His other practice is at Mornington Peninsula Sports Physicians in Mornington.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, (MBBS) Monash University, Melbourne, 1998.
• Fellowship of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians (2008)

Professional Interests:

• General sports, exercise and musculoskeletal medicine
• Altitude and climbing medicine

Involvement with Teams and Associations:

Current:

• IOC Sports Medicine Course Director for the Oceania region
• 2008 UCI Cycling World Cup in Melbourne

Past:

• Richmond Football Club (AFL) 2002-2007
• Coburg Tigers Football Club (VFL) 2001-2002
• NT Mosquitoes Rugby Union, 2005
• AIS Under 23 cycling squad, 2002
• Medical Coordinator, International Rugby 7’s, Darwin, 2005
• Arafura Games, Darwin, 2005
• Alice Springs Masters Games, 2002, 2004
• World Masters Games, Melbourne, 2002

Professional Memberships & Affiliations:

• Member, Sports Medicine Australia (SMA)
• Member, Medical Expeditions (UK)
• Member, International Society for Mountain Medicine
• Associate Member, British Mountaineering Council

Greatest professional sporting moments:

• Climbing to and completing research projects at 5000 m in Nepal.
• Being involved in the development of young athletes, and watching their development into elite performers.

Personal sporting experience:

• Trekking and climbing expeditions in Mexico, Canada, Nepal and Scotland. Summited Pico de Orizaba (Mexico, 5700 m) Dec 1998, Nevado de Toluca (Mexico, 4600 m), Apr 2002.

Publications:

• Temazepam at high altitude reduces periodic breathing without impairing next-day performance: a randomised cross-over double blind study. Nickol A, Leverment J, Seal P, Harris G et al. J Sleep Res (2006) 15, 1-10.
• Assessment of  cognitive function at 5100m altitude: A comparison of computerised and manual methods, Harris G, Cleland J, Collie A (in progress)