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Conference looks towards 2012 games

One of Britain’s greatest paralympic athletes, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE, will be among a host of international speakers to talk at the first international Sports Science and Sports Medicine conference at Northumbria University in the summer.

Dame Tanni, who won 11 gold medals over 16 years, will talk on paralympic sport from the athlete’s perspective, taking lessons from Beijing.Other speakers at the event, which will be held at Northumbria’s City Campus East, include Professor Jiri Dvorak, FIFA Chief Medical Officer and sports nutritionist Professor Louise Burke from the Australian Institute of Sport.

The conference, to be run from 20 – 22 August, will bring together experts with those who work in the world of elite sport to look at range of issues in the build-up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games and beyond.

Topics to be discussed at this conference include the medicine and science of football, keeping kids healthy, doping issues and sports psychology.

Anyone interested in registering for the conference can register online at www.isssmc.com.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .