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Injury Time: Sports Medicine in Premiership Football

Updated: Jan 30


In our fifth student-hosted Medicine 360 podcast, Dr Zafar Iqbal discusses the world of elite level sports and exercise medicine.


Dr Zafar helps demystify the roles and responsibilities of various medical professionals across a Premier League football club, as well as giving us an unrivalled insight into a career in sports medicine. He talks about the fascinating metrics used to monitor players’ health and goes into the complex interactions the Head Doctor may have with managers, players and other doctors at international teams. He gives us his take on the contrast between the environments of hospital based medicine and performance driven sports medicine, and suggests how the latter is being changed by technology (such as AI), and by the increasing sharing of knowledge between different sports.


Dr Zafar is presently Head of Sports Medicine at Arsenal Football Club. He has over 19 years of experience working in professional football. He has also been the Medical Officer for 3 years at Kent County Cricket Club, and has been consultant to a number of the players in Pakistan's international cricket team. He currently holds the role of Co-Chairman at the Football Association Medical Society and is a prominent campaigner in increasing the prevalence of Automated External Defibrillators in public places


The podcast is hosted by Ibrahim Ahmad, a second-year medical student at the University of Bristol.


We hope you enjoy listening.



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