Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine 

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Dr Mani-Babu graduated in Medicine from University College London Medical School in 2005, along with a First Class Honours Degree in Physiology. He completed the London Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM) registrar training programme, including rotation through the Dance Injury Clinic at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and became a Consultant in August 2013. He has also completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound.
He has a variety of clinical and leadership experience within the NHS, Private Sector, Ministry of Defence and Elite Sport. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK), Fellow of the Faculty of SEM and was appointed Honorary Secretary for the Faculty of SEM in 2018. 

Dr Mani-Babu is SEM Consultant in the SEM service at Barts Health NHS Trust in London. Previously, he has also worked for many years at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Headley Court, where he was lead consultant in the Centre for Spinal and Upper Quadrant Rehabilitation, Lead for Trainee Education and Consultant in the Centre for Lower Limbs Rehabilitation. 

His roles in sport have included medical team leader at Olympic and Paralympic Games (2012 London), Lead UK team doctor at The Invictus Games (2017 Toronto), National Classifier for the British Athletics Parallel Success Programme and Medical Officer in professional football with Brentford FC and Fulham FC. He has also worked in a variety of other sports including boxing, judo, basketball, marathon/athletics events and rugby.

Dr Mani-Babu is a strong advocate for a team-based approach to managing medical and musculoskeletal conditions not only for elite athletes but also for all individuals who would like to be physically active. 
 

Clinical Professor and Consultant Physiotherapist  

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Professor Morrissey completed an MSc at University College London in 1998 and a PhD in 2005 at King’s College London. He is now Consultant Physiotherapist and Professor of Sports and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at Bart's and the London NHS trust / Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). He leads Sports and Exercise Medicine (SEM) at QMUL, comprising an inter-disciplinary team of 18 people.

He is a fellow of the HEA and provides academic leadership to the SEM educational programmes at QMUL - an intercalated BSc, a PhD programme and the MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine. He runs the Human Performance Laboratory. He has gained more than £7m in research funding, with a third as lead applicant, and has authored ~ 90 peer-reviewed full papers. His main research interests are tendinopathy, evidence translation and the link between movement and pathology. He has an increasing focus on data management and artificial intelligence. His sporting passion is paralympic sport, and he was a headquarters physiotherapist for London 2012 and Rio 2016.

Senior Clinical Lecturer & Consultant Podiatric Surgeon

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Role in Department:

MDT Sports Injuries Clinic

Certificate in Podiatric Sports Medicine joint clinical lead

Podiatric Sports injuries joint module lead

Research Projects supervisor

Personal Tutor

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Research interests:

Lower limb biomechanics

Rowing mechanics

3D gait analysis

Senior Clinical Lecturer & Consultant in SEM 

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Role in Department:

Senior Clinical Lecturer

Module Co Lead

Research Project Supervisor

Graduate of the department, link to ECOSEP

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Research Interests:

Hamstring Injuries

Judo, Athletics

ESWT

Ultrasound Imaging

Consultant Rheumatologist/Clinical Lead

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Dr D Pyne is Clinical Lead for Rheumatology with an interest in sports injuries. He is Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer In Sports and Exercise. He lectures on the Sports MSc and is responsible for the running of the weekly Sports Clinics within the rheumatology department at Mile End Hospital