Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) doctors often receive complex referrals from patients who have seen multiple clinicians without a clear diagnosis. Many of these unexplained symptoms may be related to an inflammatory arthropathy, so knowledge of rheumatological conditions and a strong network of rheumatology colleagues is essential. This session will explore the overlap between SEM and Rheumatology, using real-life cases to illustrate and educate the audience on this important topic.
Mr Huw Roberts is a physiotherapist with extensive experience in the NHS, professional, and international sports. Having worked as a specialist MSK Physiotherapist and Advanced Physiotherapy Practitioner in the NHS, most of his career has been spent in elite sports with Swansea City FC, as lead physio for the Welsh Women’s football team, and with the British Horseracing Association. Huw’s current role is as a Rehabilitation Performance Coach with the PGMOL, working with professional football match officials in association with the Premier League and the Football Association.
Mr Cameron Siandri is an Australian-trained Physiotherapist from North Queensland. Since graduating in 2016, he has worked in private musculoskeletal clinic settings across both Australia and the UK.
Cameron first joined the Pure Sports Medicine Moorgate team in 2019–2020, where he gained valuable experience within a multidisciplinary environment. This exposure enabled him to transition into a management role back in Australia, where he led and mentored a team of Physiotherapists and Podiatrists.
Mr Siandri has since returned to the Pure Sports Medicine Moorgate team and now works alongside Dr John Etherington and Dr James Noake to provide the highest standard of care to AxSpA patients.
Dr John Etherington is a Consultant in Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Medicine and Medical Director at Pure Sports Medicine. He had a 35-year career in the British Army becoming the Director of Defence Rehabilitation and was therefore responsible for policy and plans for all forms of rehabilitation across the Armed Forces from 2011-2018.
Previously Clinical Director at Headley Court, he developed the complex trauma rehabilitation services during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From April 2013, for 3 years, John held the additional post of National Clinical Director for Rehabilitation at NHS England. He has been a member of the NHS England Clinical Reference Groups for Rehabilitation and also, Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience.
He co-chaired the rehabilitation sub-committee of the Regional Trauma Network clinical advisory group, which developed the system of trauma networks in England.
Dr Etherington was awarded an OBE in 2009 and a CBE in 2018. He was President of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine UK from December 2018-21.
Dr James Noake MBChB MBS MRCP MRCS FFSEM DipMSkUS, is a Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM), with over a decade of experience working across a broad range of elite and professional sports, including rugby, athletics, gymnastics, cricket, football, and disability sport. He was Head Doctor for Premiership Rugby Club, London Irish Rugby Football Club, for 10 years.
He has served as Event Doctor at numerous national and international sporting events, worked in London 2012 as a Sports Physician in the Athletics Polyclinic, and alongside both the Olympic and Paralympic training squads. He was also recently the Lead Doctor for ITV’s The Games series.
James has a diverse specialist background in trauma and orthopaedics, medicine, and rheumatology, in addition to SEM. He holds postgraduate qualifications and has extensive experience in diagnostic and interventional MSK ultrasound, which he now teaches widely at national and international level. He is also a Visiting Lecturer in SEM at the Queen Mary University of London.
Dr Noake’s special interests include tendinopathy, interventional ultrasound, complex and challenging cases, ‘medical masqueraders,’ sporting hip, groin and buttock pain, adolescent injuries, bone stress, and gym or contact sports injuries.
Dr James Hamilton is a Consultant Radiologist at Yorkshire Sports Medicine (YSM), and he holds an NHS post at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals. With previous experience in sports medicine, he has an interest in sports imaging, ultrasound and Musculoskeletal (MSK) intervention. Educationally he contributes to ultrasound, anatomy and sports medicine courses at the YSM Academy, at Hull York Medical School and at The University of Leeds, across a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Dr Dan Brooke is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Consultant working privately in London and in Bath with the UK Sports Institute. He has been involved with sports medicine for many years since attending his first BASEM conference in 2008. Dan has worked a lot in professional rugby, football and in looking after Olympic athletes. He has a special interest in ultrasound, tendinopathies and concussion. Dr Brooke also enjoys running and spending time with his family.
