Professor Wheeler has been the Chair of BASEM since August 2023. Prior to this he has served on the Board as a Trustee / Chair of BASEM’s Scientific Advisory Group and oversaw the activities of the various BASEM Awards Committees from 2020-2023. Prof Wheeler, both individually and as the Chair of the Board of Trustees, helps to provide strategic direction for BASEM, overseeing all activities of this membership association, ensuring the needs of its members are met and it Charitable Objects are fulfilled

Professor Patrick Wheeler is a Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine at the Leicester Hospitals Sports Medicine Dept, where he has held his consultant position since 2009 after becoming one of the first doctors in the UK to be entered onto the Sport & Exercise Medicine (SEM) Specialist Register, held by the General Medical Council. In the Leicester Sports Medicine Dept, he has an active clinical practice specialising in the medical management of musculoskeletal disease, he supports doctors in training, and is the current Head of Service. Additionally to his NHS work, Prof Wheeler works 2 days a week for Loughborough University, originally starting in 2013 and being awarded his clinical Professorship in 2021. He has been the principal investigator for a number of NHS interventional studies, recruiting more than 1100 patients to his studies and has co-authored 60 papers in journals to date.

Professor Wheeler has previously worked extensively in elite and professional sports. He has been the Chief Medical Officer to several National Governing Bodies and to one International Federation, he worked at the English Institute of Sport 2007-2013. He worked for an NGB at one Olympic Games, and for ParalympicsGB at 3 Paralympic Games. He stepped down from working with sports teams (mostly) after Rio2016 to devote more time to his NHS, University, and Medical Speciality roles.

Professor Wheeler has previously been on the Council of the UK’s Faculty of Sport & Exercise Medicine (FSEM) from 2016-2020 as an elected position on Council, and from 2020 to Sept 2023 was appointed by the Council as FSEM’s Honorary Treasurer. In these roles he helped the medical faculty develop a number of projects in this medical speciality, with the last few years serving as a key Office Bearer with primary responsibilities for financial governance. He stood down from the FSEM in Sept 2023 to be able to take on the BASEM Chair role without an ongoing potential conflict of interest.

Dr Natasha Jones has had a lifelong interest in exercise as a key determinant of health. She became a Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine in 2011, having initially trained and practiced as a General Practitioner. Since then, she has been working as a Consultant at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Following extensive work in exercise medicine in Oxford, Natasha co-founded the national Moving Medicine initiative with colleagues in 2018 and has led the project ever since. Initially launched as a set of healthcare-facing educational tools, Moving Medicine has since expanded into policy and patient-facing areas.

Natasha has served as President of FSEM (UK) for the past four years, following a term as Vice President. She continues to lead the Moving Medicine initiative at a national level.

Dr Jones is currently leading work with other stakeholders to review the process of pre-participation screening for individuals living with one or more health conditions.

Dr Newton works as a consultant in Rheumatology/Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) at the Oxford University Hospitals Trust since her appointment in 2006. She also worked for the English Institute of Sport (now UKSI) as a Senior Sports Physician from 2007 to 2022, looking after elite athletes in a multi-sport environment. Dr Newton sees the whole spectrum of musculoskeletal, sport and exercise associated problems and has particular interest in: female and adolescent athletes, bone stress and stress fractures and in injuries related to high volume training.

Dr Newton has in interest in medical education and set up the SEM specialty training scheme in Thames Valley, which started in 2008. In Thames Valley she has been Training program Director for SEM, Head of School for the School of Medicine and is now an Associate Post Graduate Dean.

She chaired the JRCPTB Specialty Advisory Committee for SEM stepping down to take on this Vice-President role. She was first elected as a council member for the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine in 2016.

Following a membership vote, Dr Newton has been elected as the College of Sport, Exercise and Musculoskeletal Medicine’s Inaugural President.