About Robert
After completing his medical degree, Dr. Reid worked in a hospital in West Germany before attending the London Hospital Medical College, where he completed a Diploma in Sports Medicine. He then spent three years working in corporate health and exercise physiology at City Health Care. He returned to Australia in 1988 and served as the Sports Physician at the Australian Institute of Sport from 1989 to 1990.
Dr. Reid is one of the inaugural Fellows of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians and a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine in the United Kingdom. Over the course of his career, he has worked with a wide range of sports, including hockey, basketball, football (soccer), rugby union, netball, rowing, ice hockey, figure skating, and distance running.
He has a longstanding interest in understanding how the body works, regardless of the underlying theory, and this broad curiosity continues to influence his approach to sports medicine. Dr. Reid is also a Fellow of Sports Medicine Australia (formerly the Australian Sports Medicine Federation). He is a Past President of Sports Medicine Australia (Canberra) and served for more than 10 years on the National Board of Sports Medicine Australia, most recently as an immediate past board member.
Dr. Reid has always worked closely with professionals from a wide range of disciplines, including soft tissue therapists, orthopaedic surgeons, acupuncturists, and chiropractors. Although he has not trained in all of these fields, he strongly believes in a multidisciplinary team approach and values understanding how different disciplines can work together to provide the best possible care for patients. Dr. Reid has worked around the world across many levels of sport and with athletes from a wide variety of sporting backgrounds.
Dr Reid gives of his time freely and lecturers at Sports Medicine community courses at little or no charge to ensure that the people working within the sporting clubs providing care to the athletes are able to access affordable, up-to-date information. He has worked tirelessly over the past 24 years to help Sports Medicine Australia (SMA) shape and build quality educational courses which see the professional members putting back into the community. His skill set and passion have been a driving force for his colleagues to participate in this community program.
Education
- Dr Robert Andrew Reid, MBBS, Dip. Sports Med, FACSP, FASMF
- Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Monash U, 1978)
- Diploma of Sports Medicine (London, 1986)
- Fellow, Australasian College of Sports Physicians
- Fellow, Australian Sports Medicine Federation
Professional Education and Papers:
- Sports Physician (Doctor) - Private Practitioner,
- Director of Canberra Sports Medicine 1995 - present
- Sports Medicine Australia - National Board Member 2003 – 2018
- Sports Medicine Australia ACT Branch Board Member 1989 – current
- President SMA ACT 2003-2007
- Vice President SMA ACT 2007-2017
- Sports Physician - ACT Academy of Sport 1993 – 2010
- Member, Technical Advisory Panel - ACT Academy of Sport 2002 - 2010
- Chief Medical Officer – Ice Skating Australia 2003 – 2010
- Involved with figure skating since 1995 when his daughter (then aged 3) started to take lessons. She is still participating in the sport competitively and has reached Novice level with the goal of representing Australia Internationally.
- Medically, Dr. Reid treated the majority of the figure skating injuries locally and was asked to consult on many of the problems that other National level skaters around Australia where having.
- Since 2003 he was actively involved within Ice Skating Australia as a Medical Advisor and Team Doctor. Within the ACT (our local State) he educated the skaters in Anti-doping matters and work closely with the Australian Sports Drug Agency.
- “Side-effects of Local Glucocorticoid Injections” ASMF Conference 1991
- Emergency Management of Severe Trauma Course 1994, 2000
- Co- Author – “Take Care of Yourself in Australia” 1994, 1999
- Chapter Author – Epilepsy in Sport in “Science and Medicine in Sport” 1995
- Co-Author “Central Stability” Article 2003 -present
- URSA Osteopathic Course in Back and Pelvic Mechanics 1990
- Concussion Management – ASMF Regional Conference 2005
- On Field Injury Management Course – ASMF Conference 2006
Guest Speaker
Dr Reid has generously volunteered his time as a guest instructor to support the education and professional development of the sports chiropractic community.
Please note that FICS does not manage speaking engagements, professional enquiries or contact requests on behalf of guest instructors. Anyone wishing to contact Dr Reid is asked to research the appropriate contact details and reach out to him directly through his professional practice or publicly available professional channels. FICS is unable to forward individual contact requests to guest speakers.