Our staff at the Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine form an inter-disciplinary team.
Dr Nat Padhiar is a Consultant Podiatric Surgeon currently working in the private sector having previously held a substantive NHS post at The Royal London Hospital. He is an Honorary Reader in the Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine and the course director for Podiatric Sports Medicine, leading an inter-disciplinary team.
He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority, Fellow of the Faculty of Podiatric Surgery, College of Podiatry (Lon) and Fellow of the Faculty of Podiatric Medicine, Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons (Glas).
He is a keen sportsman continuing to play cricket, tennis and taking part in endurance sport. In his professional capacity he has been part of the medical team for a number of large-scale sporting events including Commonwealth Games, marathons, triathlons, Olympics and Paralympics. He was the Clinical Lead and Team Leader for Podiatric Sports Medicine based in the Polyclinic, Olympic Village in Stratford for the entire period of the London 2012 games.
His particular focus of research has been in exercise-induced leg pain and Achilles tendinopathy. Innovation has included novel diagnostic, measurement, and management approaches through to award-winning contributions e.g. BASEM Gold Medal and papers in top ranked journals. He is regarded as a world leader in the field of Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome.
Mr Prior has over 30 years of experience specialising in biomechanics of the lower limb, orthoses, gait analysis, sports injuries, the diabetic foot and foot surgery. He is a Consultant Podiatric Surgeon at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He helped develop the first Postgraduate Certificate in Podiatric Sports Medicine and is now a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Centre of Sports and Exercise Medicine.
Trevor’s research interests include evaluating the assessment of sports specific technique with the aim of predicting, preventing and managing injury.
Professor Wolman works in the Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine and has widespread clinical and research experience in Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM).
Roger helped to develop the first British Olympic Medical Centre at Northwick Park Hospital and continued to work in the centre until 2008. He was appointed as NHS Consultant in SEM at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in 1994 where he set up weekly NHS SEM and Dance Medicine clinics. He developed an Exercise prescription service providing treatment for patients with chronic diseases including Arthritis and Rheumatic diseases, Osteoporosis, Chronic pain, Joint Hypermobility and Ehlers Danlos Syndromes and for Amputees. He also set up the Motion Analysis laboratory at the hospital which included providing a compartment pressure testing service.
Being involved in Dance Medicine for many years, he has been the Medical Advisor to One Dance UK (previously Dance UK) and helped to set up the National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science in 2012.
Professor Wolman did his Medical Doctorate on the Female Athlete Triad and has continued to work in this area ever since. He has an interest in bone health in athletes which has included a range of projects on Vitamin D. Having treated over 1200 dancers in the NHS dance medicine clinic he has produced a range of papers on the injury profile of different Dance Genres.
The concept of Exercise is Medicine has influenced Professor Wolman’s approach to the management of patients with chronic diseases. He has completed research projects on the influence of exercise on a range of chronic diseases including head injuries, arthritis and osteoporosis. He worked with the Moving Medicine project to provide guidelines on providing exercise for amputees. He is currently developing research on the optimisation of exercise in the rehabilitation of patients recovering from Covid-19, and helped set up a multi-disciplinary service to provide treatment for patients with Post-Covid-19 Syndrome.
Dr Angioi’s main sports-specific research interests are in the field of physiological determinants of performance and injury risk factors in the performing arts. Manuela has worked with professional and non-professional dancers from UK and Europe, particularly investigating the effects of increased physical fitness levels on performance and injury rate and severity. Previous collaborations have included a consultancy to the resident physiotherapist of the National Centre for Circus Arts Training, and the possibility of replicating a similar screening with the Royal Ballet School healthcare team is under discussion.
Manuela has published research findings in academic journals, contributing to Sports and Dance Medicine blogs and magazines, as well as presenting at numerous international conferences. She also sits on the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science Research Committee.
Other research interests include exercise is medicine. Dr Angioi was part of a research group investigating the cardiovascular capacity of breast cancer patients with the aim to develop effective and safe exercise intervention guidelines to improve their reduced levels of aerobic capacity. She also contributed to the Dancefit Prime project which includes an ongoing pilot study, investigating the use of dance-based exercise for dementia patients in primary care. Her role is to advise on scientific approach, protocol reliability and data analysis/dissemination.
Dr Chaudry is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine and a distance learning lead. Saira has 10 years of teaching experience and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a member of International Society of Biomechanics and Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.
Her research focuses on investigating and developing techniques to understand the multi-scale mechanics and structure of connective tissues particularly tendons from in vivo human models to in vitro models. Further interests involve musculoskeletal biomechanics and tissue function-structure relationship. She has extensive research experience in sEMG, motion capture and Imaging techniques like Ultrasound as well as Infrared Thermal Imaging.
Dr Lack leads the MSc Sports and Exercise Medicine programme, combining his clinical and academic experience to help guide the delivery and development of the programme. His main research interests centre on the assessment and delivery of targeted interventions, through a greater understanding of treatment effect mechanisms, for common knee complaints, in particular, patellofemoral pain and patellofemoral osteoarthritis.
He also continues to work as a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist and Head of Research at Pure Sports Medicine, a private sports medicine facility, and with elite athletes at the University of East London, and London Lions professional basketball team.
Dr Miller’s academic background is primarily within biomechanics, physiology and statistics. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
In sport Stuart recently retired from coaching American Football where he spent ten years coaching the GB Men’s team through two European Championships, alongside coaching London Blitz, winning one European Club Championship and three National Championships.
Dr Miller manages our Human Performance Lab, alongside teaching biomechanics, and providing statistical support to students and the Sports and Exercise Medicine team.
He is the Medical pathway coordinator for the MSc Sport and Exercise Medicine and module lead for the Research Methods, and Research Project modules.
Stuart’s research is focused broadly on understanding more about how the human body works, focusing on movement and control (“dexterity”) from a neuro-musculoskeletal perspective. He is currently researching tendinopathy, knee injuries, and post-traumatic osteoarthritis.
Dylan Morrissey is a Consultant Physiotherapist and Professor of Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy. He leads the interdisciplinary Sports and Exercise Medicine (SEM) team at Queen Mary.
Professor Morrissey is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and provides academic leadership to the Sports and Exercise Medicine educational programmes. Dylan runs the Human Performance Laboratory and has gained more than £7million in research funding, with a third as lead applicant, and has authored approximately 90 peer-reviewed full papers. His main research interests are tendinopathy, evidence translation and the link between movement and pathology. He has an increasing focus on data management and artificial intelligence.
His sporting passion is paralympic sport, and he was a headquarters physiotherapist for London 2012 and Rio 2016.
Dr Bradley Neal is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and Head of Research at Pure Sports Medicine, London’s leading private Sports Medicine clinic, alongside his post as a Research Fellow at Queen Mary.
Bradley’s main research interests are in patellofemoral pain and other knee pathologies, biomechanics, running-related injury and the epidemiology of musculoskeletal conditions, and he has published in several leading peer-reviewed journals. Educationally, Dr Neal has a particular interest in research methods, biomechanics and rehabilitation and student research projects, contributing to the delivery of the MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine.
Dr Nikos Malliaropous is a Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Physician at Queen Mary, as well as the Director of the Sports Injuries Clinic of Track and Field Hellenic Association in Thessaloniki. He was Chief Medical Officer of the Hellenic Olympic Team XXVIII (Athens 2004). He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine UK (FSEM), a Member of the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine (BASEM), and a founding Member of the European College of Sports and Exercise Medicine (ECOSEP).
He is involved in teaching on the MSc Sports and Exercise Medicine and has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed full papers. His main research interests are Muscle Injuries especially Hamstrings, Ankle Ligament Injuries, Bone stress injuries, and evidence-based ESWT prescriptions.
Nikos was also a Balkan Judo Champion, 5th Dan, and British Judo Coach UKCC Level 2.
Dr Mehta is a medical doctor, who initially trained as a General Practitioner (GP) before pursuing his interest in Sports and Exercise Medicine. He is now Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at Queen Mary, leads on the Medical Problems in Sport module and co-leads on the Sport Injury Assessment 1 module for the MSc.
Ritan has worked in a variety of sports throughout his career including athletics, rugby and gymnastics. He worked at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in athletics at the Olympic stadium.
His main area of interest is football medicine. Dr Ritan Mehta is currently the FA Medical Officer for England Women's Football and Team Doctor to the Senior England Women's football team. He has previously worked with a variety of teams within the FA and was the lead medical officer for England at the FIFA U20 Men's World Cup 2011 in Colombia, and the Women’s World Cup 2015 in Canada. He was also the Team Doctor at Watford FC from 2011 to 2016.
Dr Katrine Okholm Kryger is an associate lecturer and the sub-module lead for the MSc Podiatrist track. She leads on the Principles of Sports Injury Management in Dance and Football MSc module and teaches on MSc modules in Literature Reviewing, Applied Sports Injury Management in Dance and Football, and Sports Injury and Podiatric Assessment.
Katrine was awarded her PhD developing and validating human test protocols for human football boot testing. Katrine has previously worked in sports technology research and at the French Institute of Sport (INSEP) publishing research on tennis epidemiology in collaboration with the team from Roland Garros. Katrine is a keen football and futsal player.
Her research interest predominantly involves sports footwear (with a special interest in football boots) and its impact on performance, comfort and injury risk. Her research interests also cover sports equipment and its relation to injury risk as well as validation of assessment methods.