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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.

Reduced fees for early registration

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