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Dr Nick Webborn

Principal Research Fellow

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Sport and Service Management
Gaudick Road
Eastbourne
BN20 7SP

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643741

Email: A.D.J.Webborn@brighton.ac.uk

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Qualifications  

  • MB BS - 1979
  • MRCGP - 1985
  • Diploma in Sports Medicine (Distinction) - 1993
  • MSc (Lond.)  Sports Medicine – 1996
  • FACSM - Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine – Nov 2000
  • FFSEM - Foundation Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine – 2003
  • Fellow of the Institute of Sports Medicine - 2004
  • FFSEM (UK) - Foundation Fellowship of the Faculty of Sports & Exercise Medicine – 2006

Research Interests

  • The physiological determinants and measurement of heat and hypoxic tolerance, particularly during exercise
  • Alleviating the negative consequences of exercise in hot environments (i.e. through heat acclimation, pre-cooling and hydration manoeuvres)
  • Illness and injury surveillance with particular reference to Paralympic athletes
  • Muscle and tendon injury

Biography

Nick is currently Medical Director of The Sussex Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine at The University of Brighton and a Research Fellow of the Chelsea School, University of Brighton and the BPA Science and Medicine Consultant Advisor. 

He was formerly Medical Advisor to the National Sports Medicine Institute. Nick was Medical Officer with the GB Team at the Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney and joined the International Paralympic Medical Commission in 2000.

He attended the Salt Lake and Athens and Torino Paralympics on the anti-doping committee and started the IPCs sports injury surveillance programme in Salt Lake.  This has been repeated at all winter games since that time.  

He was a member of the London 2012 health advisory group presenting to the IOC evaluation commission and the Medical Advisory Group for LOCOG and was a member of the SEM workstream group for LOCOG. During the Olympic Games he worked as a sports physician in the Polyclinic in the Olympic Village and was Chief Medical Officer to ParalympicsGB.

He is a member of the IPC research team of injury and illness surveillance.

Research Publications

Number of items: 27.

Derman, Wayne, Schwellnus, Martin, Jordaan, Esme, Blauwet, Cheri A, Emery, Carolyn, Pit-Grosheide, Pia, Marques, Norma-Angelica Patino, Martinez-Ferrer, Oriol, Stomphorst, Jaap, Van de Vliet, Peter, WEBBORN, ANTHONY and Willick, Stuart E (2013) Illness and injury in athletes during the competition period at the London 2012 Paralympic Games: development and implementation of a web-based surveillance system (WEB-IISS) for team medical staff British Journal of Sports Medicine, 47 (7). ISSN 0306-3674

Willick, Stuart, WEBBORN, ANTHONY, Emery, Carolyn, Blauwet, Cheri, Pit-Grosheide, Pia, Stomphorst, Jaap, Van de Vliet, Peter, Patino Marques, Norma Angelica, Martinez-Ferrer, J Oriol, Jordaan, Esmè, Derman, Wayne and Schwellnus, Martin (2013) The epidemiology of injuries at the London 2012 Paralympic Games British Journal of Sports Medicine . ISSN 0306-3674

WEBBORN, ANTHONY (2013) Editorial: London 2012 Paralympic Games: bringing sight to the blind? British Journal of Sports Medicine, 47 (7). ISSN 0306-3674

Webborn, N. and Van De Vliet, P. (2012) Paralympic medicine The Lancet, 380 (1). pp. 65-71. ISSN 0140-6736

Castle, P., Kularatne, B.P., Brewer, J., Mauger, A.R., Austen, R.A., Tuttle, J.A., Sculthorpe, N., Mackenzie, R.W.A., Maxwell, N. and Webborn, A. (2012) Partial heat acclimation of athletes with spinal cord lesion European Journal of Applied Physiology . ISSN 1439-6319

Webborn, N. (2012) Lifetime injury prevention: the sport profile model British Journal of Sports Medicine, 46 . pp. 193-197. ISSN 1473-0480

Webborn, N., Willick, S. and Emery, C. (2012) The injury experience at the 2010 winter Paralympic Games Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 22 (1). pp. 3-9. ISSN 1536-3724

Etheridge, Timothy, Atherton, Philip J., Wilkinson, Daniel, Selby, Anna, Rankin, Debbie, WEBBORN, ANTHONY, Smith, Kenneth and WATT, PETER (2011) Effects of hypoxia on muscle protein synthesis (MPS) and anabolic signaling at rest and in response to acute resistance exercise American Journal Of Physiology-Endocrinology And Metabolism, 301 (4). ISSN 0193-1849

WEBBORN, ANTHONY (2011) "What do you mean, a wheelchair athlete?" Current Sports Medicine Reports, 10 (5). ISSN 1537-890X

Castle, P., Mackenzie, R.W.A., Maxwell, N., Webborn, A. and Watt, P. (2011) Heat acclimation improves intermittent sprinting in the heat but additional pre-cooling offers no further ergogenic effect Journal of Sports Sciences, 29 (11). pp. 1125-1134. ISSN 1466-447X

Willick, S and Webborn, N (2011) Sport Medicine In: Vanlandewijck, Y and Thompson, W, eds. The Paralympic Athlete. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 76-90. ISBN 9781444334043 (In Press)

Bhambhani, Y., Mactavish, J., Warren, S., Thompson, W.R., Webborn, A., Bressan, E., De Mello, M.T., Tweedy, S., Malone, L., Frojd, K., Van De Vliet, P. and Vanlandewijck, Y. (2010) Boosting in athletes with high-level spinal cord injury: knowledge, incidence and attitudes of athletes in paralympic sport Disability and Rehabilitation, 32 (26). pp. 2172-2190. ISSN 1464-5165

Webborn, N (2010) Disability Sports In: Speed , C and Hutson, M, eds. Sports Injury. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199533909

Price, M, Crosland, J and Webborn, N (2010) The travelling athlete In: Goosey-Tolfrey, V, ed. Wheelchair Sport. A complete guide for athletes, coaches, and teachers. Human Kinetics , pp. 87-98. ISBN 9780736086769

Webborn, N., Price, M.J., Castle, P. and Goosey-Tolfrey, V. (2010) Cooling strategies improve intermittent sprint performance in the heat of athletes with tetraplegia British Journal of Sports Medicine , 44 (6). pp. 455-460. ISSN 0306-3674

Webborn, N (2009) Paralympic Sport In: Caine, D, Harmer, P and Schiff, M, eds. Epidemiology of Injury In Olympic Sports. The Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine, An IOC Medical Commission Publication (16). Wiley-Blackwell, London, pp. 475-490. ISBN 9781405173643

Webborn, N and Goosey-Tolfrey, V (2008) Spinal Cord Injury In: Buckley, J, ed. Exercise Physiology in Special Populations. Churchill Livingstone, pp. 309-334. ISBN 9780443103438

Webborn, N., Watt, P. and Castle, P. (2008) The use of diagnostic ultrasound to evaluate the optimum depth for muscle biopsy of the vastus lateralis muscle Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise , 41 (5). p. 204. ISSN 0195-9131

Orchard, J., Best, T., Mueller-Wohlfahrt, H., Hunter, G., Hamilton, B., Webborn, N., Jaques, R., Kenneally, D., Budgett, R., Phillips, N., Becker, C. and Glasgow, P. (2008) The early management of muscle strains in the elite athlete: best practice in a world with a limited evidence basis British Journal of Sports Medicine, 42 (3). pp. 158-159. ISSN 1473-0480

Webborn, N (2007) A Neuropathic Model to the Etiology and Management of Achilles Tendinopathy In: Woo, S P, Renström, P A and Arnoczky, S P, eds. Tendinopathy in Athletes. Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine Series . Blackwell Publishing, London, pp. 145-159. ISBN 1405156708

Webborn, N (2007) Novel approaches to tendinopathy Disability and Rehabilitation, 30 (20-22). pp. 1572-1577. ISSN 0963-8288

Goosey-Tolfrey, V, Castle, P and Webborn, N (2006) Aerobic capacity and peak power output of elite quadriplegic games players British Journal of Sports Medicine, 40 (8). pp. 684-687. ISSN 0306-3674

Webborn, N (2006) The Disabled Athlete In: Brukner, P and Khan, K, eds. Clinical Sports Medicine. McGraw-Hill Publishing Co, New York. ISBN 0074715208

Webborn, N., Willick, C. and Reeser, J. C. (2006) Injuries among disabled athletes during the 2002 Winter Paralympic Games Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 38 (5). pp. 811-815. ISSN 1530-0315

Castle, P., Macdonald, A.L., Philp, A., Webborn, A., Watt, P. and Maxwell, N. (2006) Precooling leg muscle improves intermittent sprint exercise performance in hot, humid conditions Journal of Applied Physiology, 100 (4). pp. 1377-1384. ISSN 1522-1601

Webborn, N, Price, M, Castle, P and Goosey-Tolfrey, V (2005) Effects of two cooling strategies on thermoregulatory responses of tetraplegic athletes during repeated intermittent exercise in the heat Journal of Applied Physiology, 98 . pp. 2101-2107. ISSN 1522-1601

Webborn, N (2002) Sport and Disability In: McLatchie, G, ed. ABC of Sports Medicine. BMJ Books, London, pp. 63-67. ISBN 0727908448

This list was generated on Tue Jun 11 12:00:41 2013 BST.

Consultancy

  • Manchester City FC – Five month consultancy project on development of a medical research institute – 2010
  • Aspetar, Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital – Review of hospital and rehabilitation facilities in Qatar – May 2010
  • McLaren Innovative Technologies – 2012 Development of sports wheelchairs for tennis
  • Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport, Loughborough University – Coca-Cola Foundation funded project for Developing a Fit and Healthy Resource for People with a Disability: Rehabilitation to Sporting Performance and the Promotion of Physical Activity
  • Arthritis Research UK Centre for Sport, Exercise & OA Sports Advisory Group
  • International Olympic Committee - advisory group for the development of an electronic health record (EHR) for the Olympic movement.

Research Grants

  • 2003 - Award value total -  £30k (Univ of Brighton £13k), Prevention of heat illness and impaired performance in quadriplegic athletes. Funding Body UK Sport, Collaborators – British Paralympic Association, Coventry University.
  • 2005 - Award value total £100k over 4 years to British Paralympic Association, Wheelchair Set-up and Performance Value, UK Sport Graduate Innovation Programme Project.
  • 2005 – 2009 Award value total US$ 17,400, Boosting in athletes with High Level Spinal cord injury- Incidence, knowledge and attitudes of athletes in Paralympic sport, World Anti-doping Association, Collaborators – International Paralympic Committee, University of Alberta.
  • 2006-2008 - Award value total £30k to British Paralympic Association, Beijing Acclimatisation Group - to develop the acclimatisation strategy for Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, Funding Body UK Sport
  • 2007 – Award value £32,640 (Univ of Brighton 100%), Provision of sports science and medical support to a talent identification project for football in Goa, Manchester United Merchandising Ltd.
  • 2007 - Award value total £70k, Inspiratory Muscle Training project, matched funding £25k UK Sport, £5k BPA, £40k Brunel University.

Prizes

  • David Ritchie Prize in Sports Medicine (awarded to student with highest marks in Diploma exam), The London Hospital Medical College - 1993
  • Congress Award for best presentation - Biological Sciences. 4th IOC World Congress on Sport Sciences, Monte Carlo, 1997.  US$ 2,500
  • Paralympic Scientific Award Nominee 2005 & 2007 – award for the work of one researcher for their contribution in the field of sport for people with a disability.
  • The Sir Robert Atkins Award, The Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine  - prize for consistently valuable medical service to a national sporting organisation – 2011
  • Eastbourne Achievers Award – Supporting People with Disabilities – May 2012
  • Sport and Exercise Team of the Year - BMJ Group Improving Health Awards 2012 - Paralympics GB Health Care Team – Shortlisted
  • Sussex Sport Awards 2012 – Winner of the Sport England ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sport’ award
Dr Nick Webborn