Introducing our New Clinical Director – Dr Mike Rossiter

October 13, 2021

This month we welcome our new Clinical Director, Dr Mike Rossiter. Dr Rossiter is a Consultant in Sport, Exercise and Musculoskeletal (MSK) Medicine. Dr Rossiter regularly sees children, adolescents and adults of all abilities with sport, exercise or musculoskeletal-relate conditions.

Away from his NHS work, Dr Rossiter has worked with a variety of professional sports for 20 years, including Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for GB Hockey, attending four Commonwealth and three Olympic Games (including the Gold medal for the Women at Rio 2016), most recently Deputy CMO Team GB for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. He has been club doctor at London Irish, Southampton FC and CMO for GB Synchronised Swimming and worked as a Sports Physician for the English Institute of Sport, at Bisham Abbey, for 9 years, treating elite able-bodied and disabled athletes across many sports.

He is one of the match day doctors at Twickenham covering immediate care for the players or as one of the independent match day doctors for concussion (including the Rugby World Cup final in 2015), tutor on the RFU’s Pre-Hospital Immediate Care in Sport Course and independent match reviewer for concussive events in Rugby from Premiership to International matches. He was CMO for Team England CMO for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, CMO for Team GB at The European Games 2019 and has been appointed as Team England CMO for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Other roles include Premiership Rugby Medical Advisor (including leading on Covid-19 policy relating to professional sport) and he is part of the UK anti-doping medical committee

If you are interested in booking an appointment with Dr Rossiter please call our enquiry team on 01256 315010.