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Organising Committee
- Dave Roberts
(Chair) - Prof Ron Maughan
(Loughborough) - Prof Zig St Clair Gibson
(Northumbria University) - Prof Kevin Thompson
(Northumbria University)
Programme Committee
- Prof Ron Maughan
(Chair) - Prof Nicola Maffulli
(London) - Dr Rod Jaques
(English Institute of Sport) - Prof Zig St Clair Gibson
(Northumbria University) - Prof Louise Burke
(Australian Institute of Sport) - Prof Andy Jones
(University of Exeter)
Local Organising Committee
- Prof Kevin G Thompson
(Chair) - Ian Elvin
(Northumbria University) - Dr Glyn Howatson
(Northumbria University) - Dr Nick Caplan
(Northumbria University) - Katrina Dexter
(Northumbria University)
Conference Objectives
To deliver Europe’s Premier Sports Medicine & Sports Science Conference – an annual event bringing together national and international experts – in the build up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and beyond. Also looking forward to the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Featured Highlights
Plenary Sessions
- Optimising performance in cycling
- Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and obesity: Where to from here?
- Talent ID in sport
- The new UK Anti-Doping Agency: What is it and what does it do?
- Biomarkers for assessment of nutrition
- and hydration status
- What’s new in dietary supplements?
- Confidentiality issues in professional sport
Sports Medicine Symposia
- When can an athlete safely return to play?
- Medical planning for the 2012 Olympic Games
- Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) in tendon
- and muscle therapy
- CNS-Acting Drugs: What is allowed,
- what is not, and why?
- Top 10 questions in Sports Medicine
Sports Science Symposia
- New approaches to endurance training
- Measuring and monitoring stress and its effects on health and performance
- Exercise and health: What are
- the mechanisms?
- Peaking at the right time
Open Communications
- Poster/Oral
Stop Press: Attendance at ISSSMC is worth 18 CPD points
Abstract submissions published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine






