Dr Natalie Shur graduated from the University of Edinburgh with Honours in Medicine in 2012, and also undertook an Intercalated Degree (1st Class) in Sports Science. After graduation, she secured an academic run-through national training number in Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) in the East Midlands Deanery. She completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2024, investigating the effect of immobilisation (comparing an acute and chronic bed rest model) and musculoskeletal injury (using an ankle fracture model) on muscle metabolic health.

Natalie has won several scholarships and awards for her work, including the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Research Fellowship and a Young Investigator Award at the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) Congress in 2019. She is the author of the book Sport and Exercise Medicine OSCEs: An Essential Revision Guide and she won the Macleod Medal in 2020 as the most distinguished candidate sitting the Faculty of SEM diploma exams. Natalie currently chairs the Women in SEM Trainee Group and sits on the Faculty of SEM Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity Committee.

Dr Shur currently holds several research grants as both a Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator, with her work focussed on two main areas: 1) the impact of aberrant metabolic health (e.g., obesity and glucose regulation) on musculoskeletal conditions, and 2) the musculoskeletal sequelae of menopause. She currently holds a BMA Foundation Grant investigating the biomechanical and metabolic effects of pharmacological weight loss with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists on knee pain.

Dr Linda Evans is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Resident Doctor and GP based in Leeds. She has called Yorkshire home since 2008, when she began her undergraduate studies in Natural Sciences, later going on to complete her medical degree (MBChB) and an MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine all at the University of Leeds. In 2021, she became a Member of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine while undertaking GP training in Leeds.

Linda is currently Team Doctor for the Great Britain Senior Women’s Basketball Team and her previous work spans a wide range of sports, including football, rugby league, judo, athletics, and both track and road cycling. She also held the role of Venue Medical Manager at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

She has a particular interest in female athlete health and is passionate about helping elite sportswomen reach their full potential. Linda is Deputy Chair of Women in Sport and Exercise Medicine, an organisation that supports women working in the field, and she also sits on the Rugby Football League’s Women’s Health Independent Advisory Group.

Following the success of the female athlete health session she led at the 2024 BASEM Conference, Dr Evans now heads up a dedicated one-day stream on the topic at the 2025 event.