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Research & Development

In July 2007 The Institute of Sports and Exercise Medicine became the Research Arm of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK). It is the responsibility of the Faculty to unify research within the specialty and it shares The Institute’s aim to foster high quality research at all levels and in all branches of Sport and Exercise Medicine.

History

The late Mr Peter Sebastian, impressed by the lack of doctors trained in sports medicine and by the lack of any system for the training and accreditation of sports medicine doctors, founded the Institute of Sports Medicine in 1958. The first Chairman was Sir Arthur Porritt who had been President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and later Governor-General of New Zealand. His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, agreed to be connected with the first Annual Appeal, his name was printed on the Appeal Brochure in the early 1960s, and he became its first Honorary Fellow.

The Institute of Sports and Exercise Medicine

Honorary Fellow: HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG KT
Honorary Fellow: Sir David Money-Coutts, KCVO

Founder: Mr Peter Sebastian CBE (deceased)

Research Policy Board Members

Chairman:      Professor David Patterson MD, FRCP, FRSPH
Dean:             Dr John Lloyd Parry  MBE, MA, FFSEM (UK)
Treasurer:     Dr Michael Turner MBBS, FFESM (UK), FFEM (Ire)
Secretary:     Miss Diana Meynell

Members:

Dr Sheila Adam MD, FRCP, FFPHM
Dr Charlotte Cowie D Sport Med, DM-SMED, MRO, FFSEM(UK)
Dr Roger Evans FRCP (Lond), FRCS (Ed), FCEM
Dr Halina Fitz-Clarence PhD
Dr Victoria Harrison MA, DPhil
Professor Domhnall MacAuley MD, FRCGP, FFPHM, FFSEM, FISEM
Professor Paul McCrory MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FACSP, FACSM
Professor Charles Galasko (ex-officio) ChM, FRCS, PFSEM, FMCSA, F.Med Sci
Professor Nicola Maffulli MD, MS, PhD, FRCS(Orth) 
Professor Chris Riddoch PhD
Professor Sir John Temple PPFRCS (Ed), MChir Liverp, FRCP (Eng)
Professor Greg Whyte PhD, FACSM

Members of Scientific Committee

Not yet available.
The Chair of the Scientific Committee will rotate between a representative of The Institute and a representative of the Faculty.

Research Policy Board

The Research Policy Board will be predominantly within the remit of The Institute of Sports and Exercise Medicine with input from the Faculty through its Ex-Officio member. The Research Policy Board will function as a Committee of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine and as such, is responsible to the Council of the Faculty on which it will have an ex-officio member.

It will:

  • Provide Strategic Leadership of the Sports and Exercise Medicine research activities
  • Advise the Chairman of the Research Scientific Committee on resource allocation between the programmes of activity
  • Advise the Chairman of the Research Scientific Committee on the strategic focus of research commissioning and on the balance of investment between the research themes
  • Engage with those involved in the Sports and Exercise Medicine discipline, health care professionals, researchers in order to promote all aspects of the research and to ensure its responsiveness to stakeholders
  • Advise the Chairman of the Research Scientific Committee on strategies for communication, dissemination of knowledge transfer and knowledge exchange
  • Act as ambassadors for the Board providing conduits to influential networks and connections across the academic community, the sports and exercise medicine community, the public health community, the private sector and the voluntary sector.
  • Ensure good governance, accountability and value for money in all aspects of the research activities
  • Develop clear success criteria and to monitor the progress towards them
  • Liaise with the new Office for the Strategic Co-ordination of Health Research (OSCHER)
  • Facilitate the development of clinical academic educational/training programmes at the behest of the Faculty and its education committee
  • Facilitate the various educational programmes in SEM to develop a research component at the behest of the Faculty and its education committee
  • Develop robust channels of communication with the Board of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine.
  • Develop the appropriate links between the educational activities of the Faculty.
  • Contribute to the development of Faculty Policy
  • Make an annual report to the Faculty
Activities and Prizes

The Institute runs study days and seminars. It stimulates research and scholarship by its prizes for academic achievement:

  • The Duke of Edinburgh Prize for clinical and/or research work in sports medicine in the community. It is awarded for an outstanding contribution to clinical and/or research work in the field of sports medicine and in the community. The 2007 Award is a cash prize of £1000 and a certificate.
  • The Sir Robert Atkins Award for consistently valuable medical service to a national sporting organisation. Increasing participation in active leisure has inevitably extended the concern of the medical profession in its attempts to cater fully for the primary health care needs of the community. To increase medical support for and active involvement in sports medicine, The Institute established this annual award - named after a previous Minister for Sport - in recognition of a Doctor who has provided, for not less than five years, the most consistently valuable medical (clinical/preventative) service to a national sporting organisation or sport in general. The Award of a cash prize of £500 and a certificate will be subject to the rules and conditions of entry which follow.
  • The Prince Philip Medal for an outstandingly significant and original contribution to the advancement of medical knowledge or technique in Sports and Exercise Medicine. This medal will be awarded to a doctor who, in the opinion of the Board has made an outstandingly significant and original national or international contribution to the advancement of knowledge in Sports and Exercise Medicine.
Prizes

Entry forms can be obtained by contacting the Secretary at the address below. Completed forms and appropriate supporting material should be sent to The Secretary, The Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine, 30 Devonshire Street, London W1G 6PU.