Ben Jones
Professor Sports Physiology and Performance at Leeds Beckett University
Ben Jones is a Professor at Leeds Beckett University. He is also the Strategic Lead for Performance and Research at the Rugby Football League, and Pathway Performance Director at Leeds Rhinos Rugby League club. Ben completed his PhD in 2013, and was promoted to Professor at the age of 31 in 2017. He has over 200 peer-review publications, and is frequently invited as a Keynote speaker at national and international conferences. Ben has secured over £4 million in research funding, appeared numerous times on BBC Breakfast as an expert to comment on contemporary issues, and has supported a number of charity events, including the Kevin Sinfield 7 in 7 Challenge in 2021, which raised over £2.5 million for MND.
Carly McKay
Senior Lecturer, Department for Health at University of Bath
Dr Carly McKay (BKin, Msc, PhD, FHEA) is a Senior Lecturer in Injury Prevention and Deputy Director of the Centre for Health and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (CHi2PS) in the Department for Health at the University of Bath. She is also a Deputy Director of the Centre for Sport, Exercise & Osteoarthritis Research Versus Arthritis (UK) and Associate Editor for the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. Her research focuses on the role of psychosocial and behavioural factors in sport injury risk and recovery, and using behaviour change approaches to support injury prevention strategies.
Fiona Wilson
Associate Professor & Chartered Physiotherapist Head of Discipline of Physiotherapy, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
Fiona Wilson is a Chartered Physiotherapist and an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, where she is Head of the Discipline of Physiotherapy. She has over 30 years of experience in clinical physiotherapy, teaching and research. Her research has focused on examination and synthesis of epidemiology and biomechanics to create meaningful prevention and management strategies for injury and pain in sport. Her primary focus has been on athlete back pain and she has published widely in this area; specializing in rowing related back pain. She also focuses on brain health and wellness in sport with a particular focus on current and retired rugby athletes. She was lead physiotherapist for Rowing Ireland for 10 years and is the first physiotherapist to be invited to the World Rowing Sports Medicine Commission. Fiona is a Deputy Editor with the British Journal of Sports Medicine and the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. She practices clinically at Dublin Spine and Sports Physiotherapy.
Gráinne Donnelly
Advanced Physiotherapist, Educator, Postgraduate MSc Student and Clinical Researcher
Gráinne Donnelly is an Advanced Physiotherapist in pelvic health from N. Ireland. Following 12+ years service in the NHS she left position as the Team Lead for pelvic health to focus on private practice and dedicate time to clinical research. Her research interests include postpartum physical activity and diastasis rectus abdominis. She holds several voluntary roles including the Communications Officer for the N. Ireland Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Board and the Research Reviews Co-Chair for the Pelvic Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy professional network. Gráinne is an honorary member of the Perinatal Physical Activity Research Group at Canterbury Christ Church University and sits on the Specialist Advisory Board of the Active Pregnancy Foundation.
Jane Thornton
Sport & Exercise Medicine Physician, Canada Research Chair in Injury Prevention & Physical Activity for Health, Editor @BJSM_BMJ, CA Olympian & World Champion Rower
Dr. Jane Thornton is a Sport Medicine Physician and Canada Research Chair in Injury Prevention and Physical Activity for Health. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, with cross appointments in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and School of Kinesiology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. She is also an Editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Her research focuses on long-term athlete health, female athlete health, and physical activity in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease. Dr. Thornton is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM) and of Rowing Canada. She represented Canada for over a decade in the sport of rowing, as a World Champion and Olympian.
Kellie Wilkie
Managing Director at BODYSYSTEM PHYSIO, APA Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist, Aus Olympic Team Rowing Physio
Kellie Wilkie is Australian Titled Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist with a clinical and research interest in athletic low back pain. Kellie travelled with The Australian Rowing Team for 9 consecutive years including being an Australian Olympic Team Physiotherapist for the 2012 London and 2016 Rio games. Kellie is passionate about ensuring that lessons learnt in the elite environment can be transferred into preventing injury for developing rowers. Kellie has recently been involved in research and publication of several papers in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in relation to Low back pain in sport and rowing. Kellie is the Managing Director and Principal Physiotherapist of BODYSYSTEM in Hobart.
Nick Webborn
Chair at British Paralympic Association, Clinical Professor at the University of Brighton
Nick Webborn CBE is currently Clinical Professor at the University of Brighton and Honorary Clinical Professor in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, at Loughborough University. Nick is one of the UK’s leading sports medicine specialists and a world leading expert in the area of Paralympic sports medicine. He has attended 12 Paralympic Games and was chief medical officer for ParalympicsGB at London 2012 and for the Invictus Games in 2014. He is a member of the IPC Medical Committee and is Chair of the British Paralympic Association. He was awarded an OBE in 2016 for services to Paralympic Sports Medicine and to the British Paralympic Association, and a CBE in 2022 for services to Sports Medicine and to Sport.
Robert Sallis
Physician; Director; Sports Medicine Fellowship
Dr. Sallis is a Family Medicine and Sports Medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, California. He serves as Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship program and on the Administrative Faculty for the Family Medicine Residency Program. He is also the Chief Medical Officer for the Los Angeles Football Club (Major League Soccer). He is a Past-President of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and currently chairs the Advisory Board for the Exercise Is Medicine Global Health Initiative. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy, his Medical Degree from Texas A&M University and he completed his residency in Family Medicine at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana.
Sheree Bekker
Assistant Professor, Department for Health, University of Bath
Dr Sheree Bekker (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department for Health at the University of Bath. She is an is an expert in social complexity, and research that links social justice and sports injury prevention. She has a special interest in sex/gender and use qualitative methods. This informs her work at the Centre for Health and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (CHI2PS), and as a Co-Director of the Centre for Qualitative Research. In 2019, she received the British Journal of Sports Medicine Editor’s Choice Academy Award for her PhD research.
Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu
Associate Professor, Yale School of Public Health/University of Pittsburgh
Yetsa A. Tuakli-Wosornu, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor at Yale School of Public Health and University of Pittsburgh. A board-certified Physiatrist, she specializes in spine and sports medicine. Dr. Tuakli directs the Sports Equity Lab—a research group focused on dismantling inequities in sport (abuse, stigma, exclusion) while amplifying sport’s role as a positive change agent in society. A long jumper who represented the Ghana national team until 2016, Dr. Tuakli was also the International Paralympic Committee’s inaugural welfare officer, and is a member of the International Olympic Committee’s working group to prevent harassment and abuse in sport.