Dr Craig Zalecki BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCGP FFSEM Dip SEM (UK&I) PGCert (MSK US)

Dr Craig Zalecki is a consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine and clinical tutor for the MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine at Leeds University.

He completed his undergraduate studies at King’s College London before reading Medicine at UCL, where he was accepted onto a cadetship with the British Army.
On leaving the Army, he completed GP training in Oxford before undertaking higher specialty training in Sport and Exercise Medicine in Leeds.

Dr Zalecki has various clinical roles which include a Locum Consultant role at Leeds Community Healthcare and as an emergency GP in North Yorkshire.

He has a wide range of sporting experience and is currently the GB Basketball Senior Women’s Team Doctor. He has previously held roles with Leeds Rhinos Academy and GB boxing at EIS Sheffield.

His clinical interests include musculoskeletal medicine and exercise physiology. He is also enthusiastic about broadening the application of SEM from care of the elite athlete to his NHS patients; managing musculoskeletal pathology and using physical activity in the prevention and management of chronic disease.

Outside of medicine, Dr Zalecki is keen to be outdoors whenever possible. He can occasionally be found soaking wet half way up a mountain, freezing in a snow hole or kayaking too far out to sea.