With over a decade's experience in the field of exercise, sport and human movement sciences, Professor Opar is a world-leading researcher who focuses on hamstring strain injuries, specifically how best to identify individuals at risk of injury and how rehabilitation practices can be improved. In addition to his research David and his team provide consultancy services to professional sporting teams both in Australia and internationally to deliver evidence-based prevention and treatment strategies for their athlete group.

Sam has extensive sports physiotherapy experience having previously worked for 12 years in the AFL as Head Physiotherapist at the Melbourne Football Club. During this time he was also selected as Australian Team Physiotherapist for the AFL International Rules Series in 2013 and 2014. He is currently working in the A-league  with Melbourne City FC and was Team Physiotherapist for the club's 2021-22 Premiership winning season.

Kim Hebert-Losier trained as a physiotherapist in Canada in 2006 and worked as a musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapist before undertaking research on clinical testing procedures and calf muscle function in New Zealand. Kim then undertook research in human movement science and sports performance in Sweden, USA, and Malaysia before returning to New Zealand where she is now employed as an Associate Professor in Health, Sport and Human Performance. Kim is one of the founding members of the sport science team and lead biomechanics researcher based at the University of Waikato Adams Centre for High Performance. In addition to her teaching, Kim continues to publish research in the area of sports performance, injury prevention, and running and has developed the Calf Raise app to monitor strength-endurance of the calf muscles.

Seth is a Physiotherapy Lecturer at the University of Leicester whilst also maintaining clinical work. He has a PhD on tendinopathy within this Seth has identified prevalence rates of tendinopathy in UK runners and developed a greater understanding of risk factors surrounding Achilles tendinopathy. His later work has completed a more in-depth analysis of how tendinopathy affects the Plantarflexors. This has focussed on how the strength and endurance is affected and which of the Plantarflexors is most involved. This work has highlighted the involvement of the Soleus muscle in human Achilles tendinopathy. This has led to the further work related to Calf injuries in sports. Whilst Seth’s focus is on the Lower limb he maintains a strong interest in all MSK conditions. Seth feels passionately about supporting Physiotherapists to undertake further research either as standalone projects or MRes’s or PhD’s. Seth is currently examining tendon structure and changes that occur during health and disease along with Biopsychosocial interventions for tendinopathy and LBP and developing an international database of calf injuries.

Joanna Shinewell is an accredited sports dietician and holds a Masters of Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services as well as an honours in exercise physiology.  She has vast experience working with a range of clients from  corporate groups including NAB to elite sporting clubs such as Melbourne Football Club (AFL), the Victorian Institute of Sport and Tennis Australia as a consultant nutritionist. Jo is currently the performance dietician at Collingwood Football Club. Jo strives to educate her clients on  how food determines physical and mental performance while empowering everyone from the investment banker to the professional athlete on how to change their nutrition to achieve their goals.

Nick is a leading sports physiotherapist, exercise physiologist, and sports scientist specialising in tendon, lower limb and pelvic injuries. He works closely with track and field athletes across Australia, the USA, and Great Britain and is a touring physiotherapist with Athletics Australia. Since 2020, Nick has also led pioneering tendon research at La Trobe University, and  published significant work through Melbourne University on ACL return-to-run protocols. 

Dr. Tim Sayer is a Titled Research Physiotherapist and Managing Director of Melbourne CBD Physiotherapist and Sports Medicine Clinic.

Tim holds an honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Tim is an expert in the diagnosis and management of knee injuries, particularly ACL injuries having completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in ACL and PFJ biomechanics. 

Tim is also a committee member for the ‘Sports and Exercise’ group at the Australian Physiotherapy Association, promoting professional development and education pathways for registered and student sports physiotherapists.

Craig Purdam was the Deputy Director of Athlete Services for 3 years and the Head of Physical Therapies at the Australian Institute of Sport for 35 years. He has worked as a clinician for elite sport for over 40 years and has been a physiotherapist to five Olympic Games (1984-2000) and a longstanding physiotherapist to the Australian National Men's Basketball team over that period. He has worked with the Australia national track and field, rowing and swimming teams along with AFL football. Craig was awarded the Australian Sports medal in 2000. In 2009 he was appointed as adjunct Professor to the University of Canberra and La Trobe University in 2018. Qualifications:

• Undergraduate (1975)
• Postgraduate diploma in Sports (1992)
• Master in Sports (2000)
• Specialist Sports Physiotherapy following his Fellowship of the Australian College of Physiotherapists (2009)
• Honorary Doctor of Science from La Trobe University (2018)

Craig's major clinical and research interests are in the fields of tendinopathy, chronic hamstring injury, calf injury and tissue loading, adaptation and healing mechanisms. He has co-authored around 60 scientific papers and book chapters in these fields.

Senior AFL rehab physiotherapist with the Western Bulldogs | Master of High Performance Sport | Current PhD candidate investigating hamstring strain injuries and high speed running biomechanics. 

Scott has a keen interest in injury prevention, rehabilitation and athletic performance and has a passion for merging research and applied practice to improve athlete outcomes and injury prevention.

Andrew is a Sports and Manipulative physiotherapist who is currently employed as the head physiotherapist at St. Kilda Football Club. He has worked as part of the team at Lifecare Malvern Sports Medicine Centre since 2007. Over the last 15 years, Andrew has worked in both a clinical setting and in an elite sporting environment with Melbourne Victory, Adelaide Thunderbirds, SACA Redbacks, V8 Supercars, triathlon and athletics. Andrew is the keynote presenter for ‘The Hip & Groin Clinic’, which delivers courses for the Sporting hip & groin and muscle injury management.

Kevin is a Melbourne based physiotherapist, avid runner and athletics coach with over 20 years’ physiotherapy experience. Kevin completed a Research Masters in Exercise Science examining functional performance in achilles tendinopathy.

Kevin has previously been a lecturer and presenter for Sports Medicine Australia and the Australian Physiotherapy Association on the topic of running biomechanics and lower limb injury.

Musculoskeletal Radiologist working with athletes including in Formula 1, Premier League, Championship football, Serie A, British Olympic team, British Athletics, British Triathlon, NBA, Lawn Tennis Association, international rugby and cricket, and the Royal Ballet.

Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist, Fortius Clinic, London

Professor of Sports Medicine Imaging, Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University

Chair and Clinical Lead, Royal College of Radiologists Education

Scientific Advisory Council, International Society for Clinical Densitometry

Vice- Chair UK/Ireland Panel, International Society for Clinical Densitometry

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Imaging Science Working Group

European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) Basic Sciences Committee

Faculty, MSc Musculoskeletal Sciences, Oxford University

Advisory Editor in Musculoskeletal Radiology, Clinical Radiology Journal

Jaclyn is the Lead Physiotherapist of the Matildas, Australian Womens Football Team. Jaclyn has immense experience working at all levels of womens football. Her experience extends well beyond Women's Football after spending timeworking as a Locum at the Australian Institute of Sport and Hunter Sports Academy.

Stephanie is a Sport Rehabilitator and Senior Lecturer at Solent University. She is currently completing her PhD at Griffith investigating hamstring tendon adaptation in response to exercise/loading. Her research focuses on the relationship between tendon and aponeurosis role in hamstring injuries and adaptation to exercise.