The following sports doctors are available for you to see:

Dr Bernie Crimmins
Email: bernard.crimmins@mgp.net.au

Manningham Medical Centre,
200 High St, Lower Templestowe, 3107
For an appointment, please contact receptionist: (03) 8850 0500

Hours: Mon-Fri (8am-8pm), Weekends (9am-5pm)

• Completed Medical degree at Melbourne University, 1980
• Graduate Diploma of Human Nutrition
• Masters Degree in Public Health

Experience:

• Began General Practice in 1983
• Special interest in Sports Medicine and Nutrition
• Hawthorn Football Club’s Medical Officer for 15 years
• Medical Officer Commonwealth Games, Melbourne, 2006
• Medical Officer for FINA World Swimming Championships, Melbourne, 2007

 

Dr Andrew Garnham, _{MBBS, DipRACOG, FACSP}
Alphington Sports Medical Clinic

339 Heidelberg Rd
Northcote VIC 3070
(03) 9481 5744

• Medical Director and a business director of Alphington Sports Medicine
• Worked as part of Alphington Sports medical team since 1987
• Special interest in dance, gymnastics, basketball and cycling related injuries.
• Worked with Melbourne Tigers National Basketball League team and the Australian Ballet for many years
• Works with the Victorian Institute of Sport’s cycling program
• Workd with cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
• Medical officer at the Sydney Olympics (2000)
• Worked with the Methodist Ladies College elite gymnastic team.
• Senior lecturer in Sports Medicine at Deakin University (1997 – current)
• State councilor for Sports Medicine Australia
• President of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians
• On editorial board for the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
• Fellow of Australasian College of Sports Physicians, Sports Medicine Australia

 

Dr Jeanne McGivern, _{M.B.B.S., B.Med.Sci.(Hons)}
Email: jmmcg@ozemail.com.au
Mobile: 0417 577 417

Jeanne doesn’t see herself as a GP, but is happy to see athletes with acute or chronic exercise related medical problems.

• Worked at Melbourne Sports Medicine centre
• Medical Officer for the Geelong Football for 9 years
• Current Medical Officer for the Kangaroos
• Doctor for Geelong Supercats Basketball since 1996
• Born in N. Ireland, Jeanne graduated from a London teaching hospital (1981) with B.Sc. (Hons.) and her medical degree
• Obtained her Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (England) in 1985
• Team doctor for the U17 International Rules Squad for two years in 2000
• Extensive experience in triathlon at a local, national and international level
• She assists orthopedic surgeons in Geelong and Melbourne
• She was councilor for Sports Trainer Education for Sports Medicine Australia (Vic)
• She is also an independent medical opinion on musculoskeletal injuries for the TAC and the Victorian WorkCover Authority
• Plays hockey at open and state veteran level.