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Dr Jon Patricios |
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Jon was schooled at St John’s College, Johannesburg and qualified as a medical doctor at Wits University in 1992 after which he studied for a master’s degree at the Institute for Sports Medicine and Exercise Science at Sheffield University graduating with distinction and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (UK). He is the current President of the South African Sports Medicine Association.
Jon is Clinical Director of Morningside Sports Medicine and has been a practicing sports physician at The Centre for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics in Rosebank since 1995. He has been team physician to the Wits University Rugby Club and the Professional Basketball League. Jon was team doctor for the Golden Lions Rugby Team for 10 seasons and over 300 first class matches and the Cats Super 12 Rugby Team for 6 seasons. He is a member of SA Rugby’s Medical Advisory Panel and was medical director of the International Rugby Board Under 21 World Cup held in June 2002 in Johannesburg and has been involved in rugby medical administration at school, club, academy and provincial levels for 15 years. He also is medical doctor to the Gauteng Cricket Team and serves on the Cricket South Africa Medical Committee. Jon was the regional medical director (Gauteng) for Cricket World Cup 2003 and Chief Medical officer at the World Cup Final, Medical Director for the ICC World 20/20 Tournament 2007, the ICC Champions Trophy 2009 and medical co-ordinator for the Indian Premier League 2009 and the Indian Champions League 2010. He is consultant doctor to touring international cricket and rugby teams and the Football School of Excellence, consultant Sports Physician to Kaizer Chiefs premier league football team and a member of the Comrades Marathon Panel of experts.
Jon is a founder and director of Sports Concussion South Africa and the Schools Sports Concussion Programme. He is the author of the Sports Concussion Chapter for the International Sports Medicine Federation (FIMS) manual (2009) on injury management and the South African Rugby Union “BokSmart” concussion protocols (2008-2011). He has presented the concussion programme including the integration of clinical assessments and CogState Sport screening at international congresses including the American College of Sports Medicine (2007 & 2009), South African Sports Medicine Association (2005, 2007 & 2009) and was invited to present at the Third International Conference on Sports Concussion (Zurich, 2008) as well as present a concussion workshop at the World Sports Summit in Germany 2011.
Jon is President of the South African Sports Medicine Association, on the South African Rugby Medical Association, Lions Rugby Medical Committee and the Cricket South Africa’s Medical Committee and has been the race doctor for the 94.7 Cycle Challenge. For the FIFA 2010 World Cup he was appointed to conduct the pre-competition medical assessments on the South African National Team (“Bafana Bafana”) and was a local medical consultant to several of the overseas-based teams.
Jon is a lecturer and assessor in post-graduate sports medicine at Pretoria University and has presented at seminars and published papers locally and internationally as well as contributing a chapter to the book “Make sure of your Comrades Medal” (2010). In February 2009 Jon was appointed convener of the American College of Sports Medicine’s International Team Physician Course held in Johannesburg. He is an associate editor of 2 international journals, the British Journal of Sports Medicine and Current Sports Medicine Reports (USA) and has been extensively involved in Continuing Medical Education Programmes lecturing to colleagues and the public, producing sports medicine education manuals, rugby development protocols and appearing on several national and regional radio and television broadcasts. |
Dr Jon Patricios
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Dr Andy Branfield |
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Dr Andy Branfield graduated from Wits Medical School in 1985 and obtained his postgraduate qualification in sports medicine from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2001. He has been a Diving Medical Examiner and a Senior Aviation Medical Examiner since 1988, is a board member of the Divers Alert Network (DAN) and is the current President of the South African Underwater and Hyperbaric Medical Association (SAUHMA). He has been the Chief Medical Officer for the South African Ice Hockey Association and is currently an International Tournament Medical Director for the International Ice Hockey Federation, having previously been the Principal Medical Officer for the IIHF World Championships. In these respects Andy will add a new dimension to the practice.
Andy attended the first 2 international consensus conferences on concussion in sport and is therefore well placed to work in our well-established sports concussion programme. He has an interest in paediatric and adolescent medicine as well as sports traumatology and has always utlised exercise as an intervention in the management of medical conditions in his 22 years of practice. He has been involved with the schools concussion programme in Johannesburg for the last 2 years.. |
Dr Andy Branfield
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Dr Rob Collins |
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Rob attended school in Port Elizabeth, after which he studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand. He completed his internship at Helen Joseph Hospital before going into private practice as a family practitioner.
Having gained more than 10 years of experience in family practice, he decided to study for an MSc in Sports Medicine at Pretoria University, graduating in 2007. He has since been appointed as a lecturer and examiner in the Section Sports Medicine at the University of Pretoria.
He established the Southern Suburbs Sports Medicine Multi-forum as a vehicle for continuing medical education amongst sports medical practitioners of different disciplines, and has since been elected onto the executive committee of the South African Sports Medicine Association as the central Gauteng representative. He regularly gives lectures to post graduate students and colleagues on various aspects of sports medicine, and has published a number of articles in internationally recognised journals. He established the Johannesburg southern suburbs Sports Concussion Centre in 2006, at Mondeor Medical Centre.
In 2010, he was appointed as the senior team physician at the Golden Lions Rugby Union, where he takes care of the Super Rugby and Currie Cup teams and is involved in co-ordination of the medical team and structures at the union. |
Dr Rob Collins
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Dr Ryan Kohler |
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Dr Ryan Kohler was educated at Selborne College and UCT where he
graduated as a medical doctor. He completed his internship at
Frere Hospital in his home town of East London after which he
obtained his MPhil in Sports Medicine.
Ryan is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and now practices as a sports physician at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. He was previously based at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa (Newlands) in partnership with Professors Tim Noakes, Martin Schwellnus and Wayne Derman. Ryan initiated the South African Rugby Union’s professional concussion programme, is co-founder of the Sports Concussion Programme and the current team has been team doctor for Western Province and Stormers Rugby.
View Dr. Kohlers Detailed CV
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Dr Ryan Kohler
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Dr Jon Patricios CAF
Presentation Ghana 2007
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Dr Jon Patricios ACSM
Presentation 2007
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Dr Ryan Kohler ACSM
Presentation 2007
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