THE SPORTS CLINIC - Key Persons
John is currently the Chief Medical Officer for Cricket Australia and Cricket NSW, and was medical director for the Cricket World Cup 2015. He was previously a team doctor for the Sydney Roosters NRL team (1998-2013), the Sydney Swans AFL team (1994-1997) and the NSW State of Origin team (2000-2006) and a Sports Medicine Fellow at the Australian Institute of Sport (1993). He provided injury surveillance consultancy services for the Australian Football League from 1992-2014.
Job Titles:
- Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician
Dr Grace Bryant helped the Australian water polo team win gold at the Sydney Olympics, toured with the Hockeyroos and worked with former netball captain Vicky Wilson to take the national team to a world championship title. She received a Medal of the Order of Australia for her service as a medial officer to various sports organisations. "I was really surprised and honoured to find out that someone went to such trouble to recognise me," she said. Dr Bryant, said her real love was seeing developments in sports medicine. "We are now able to give Australians everything they need to compete at the top level. It's amazing how the science has evolved." She said the most exciting moment of her career was the water polo team's Sydney Olympics win. "There was an amazing feeling and energy when they won. Helping the athletes perform to their best and come home with gold medals was amazing."
Job Titles:
- Physician
- Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician / Adjunct Professor, Sydney School of Public Health
John Orchard is a sport and exercise physician with over 20 years experience. John obtained his medical degree from the University of Melbourne (1989) and completed his Sports Medicine Fellowship in 1996. He has a PhD in sports injury epidemiology from the UNSW (1999), an MD by thesis from the University of Melbourne (2006). John is an Adjunct Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney and has published over 200 scientific papers and is highly cited with an H-index of 33 (33 publications with at least 33 cites on Web of Science, August 2017). He is currently a member of the editorial board for 4 journals including the British Journal of Sports Medicine and the American Journal of Sports Medicine. He regularly gets invited to speak at national and international conferences.
Job Titles:
- Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician
Dr Katherine Rae started working in the field of Sport and Exercise Medicine in 1997. She completed her Sports Medicine Fellowship training with the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians in 2002, after being awarded the College Medal in 2001 for best performance in the Fellowship Examinations. Dr Katherine Rae reports the highlights of her Sports Medicine career as being the two lives that she has saved whilst doing on field sports medicine coverage. The first was an older athlete who had a cardiac arrest after finishing a race at athletics event on her first day ever covering a sports event in 1997, and more recently in 2015 when she correctly diagnosed and treated a tension pneumothorax in a rugby player when he collapsed on the field after being tackled.
Interests
Dr Rae has an interest in AFL, rugby, track and field, basketball and netball injuries through many years of sports coverage in these areas. She has a particular interest in lower limb injuries and is a part of the foot and ankle research group at Sydney Uni, primarily researching syndesmosis sprains. She is also interested in acute trauma and concussion management, as well as biomechanical and overuse syndromes and women and children in sport. Through working with the Elite Athlete Program at Sydney Uni she has also treated elite athletes from a very long and varied list of sports separate to those listed above.
Her personal participation in sports has also been much and varied, including competing in Track and Field, Rugby, and Netball in adult life. She has also participated in various forms of dance including Latin and more recently Ballet.
Job Titles:
- Consultant Sport Physician
- Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician
Dr Maja Markovic is a Consultant Sport Physician with over fourteen years experience in the management of musculoskeletal injuries in professional elite athletes and recreational athletes. She successfully completed four years of specialist postgraduate training in Sports Medicine and was awarded the Fellowship of the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSP) in 2005. Dr Markovic worked as qualified General Practitioner for over seventeen years and gained Fellowship of the Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) in 1997.
Dr Markovic was awarded her medical degree at University of Belgrade in 1988.
Job Titles:
- League Club ( NRL ) Team Doctor