With only two days to go before the Rio 2016 Olympics, UBC experts are ready to comment on Games-related topics.
Sports medicine and injury prevention
Peter Cripton
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; ICORD
Tel: 604.822.6629
Email: cripton@mech.ubc.ca
- Neck and spinal cord injuries
- Brain injury and concussion
- Injury prevention; conducted trauma and injury risk review at Whistler Sliding Centre
- Conducted a helmet review for Speed Skating Canada and Alpine Canada and has published on bicycle helmet efficacy
Andrei Krassioukov
ICORD, Faculty of Medicine
Tel: 604.675.8819
Email: krassioukov@icord.org
- Studies athletes’ practice of boosting blood pressure to enhance athletic performance
- Athlete and spinal cord injuries
Bob McCormack
Chief Medical Officer for Canadian Olympic team
Faculty of Medicine
Cell: +55 21 99077 2245
Email: drbobmccormack@me.com
- Optimizing athlete health and maximizing athlete performance
- Injury and illness prevention
- Olympic team spokesperson for doping issues
Don McKenzie
Division of Sports Medicine
Chair, Medical and Anti-Doping Committee International Canoe Federation
Tel. 604.822.3513
Email: don.mckenzie@ubc.ca
- Team leader, Canoe Sprint team at Rio 2016 Games
- Team physician, Canoe Kayak Canada
Babak Shadgan
Medical Director & Chief Medical Officer, Wrestling Competitions, Rio 2016 Olympics
ICORD, Faculty of Medicine
Chairman, Medical & Anti-Doping Commission, United World Wrestling
Tel: 604.603.6664
E-mail: shadgan@gmail.com
- Zika virus infection
- Sport injury prevention
- Wrestling injuries
- Doping control and education
Jack Taunton
Head doctor for 30 years for national women’s field hockey, 20 years for men’s field hockey
Cell: 604.454.7694
Email: jack.taunton@ubc.ca
- Sport medicine and athlete health
- Concussions
- Doping and doping education for athletes
Psychology of competition
Peter Crocker
School of Kinesiology
Tel: 604.822.5580
Email: peter.crocker@ubc.ca
- Stress/pressure, coping and emotion in elite athletes
- Confidence
- Body image issues
Francesco Duina
Dept. of Sociology
Tel: 604.822.2660
Email: francesco.duina@ubc.ca
- Our cultural obsession with winning
- The effects of winning and losing on athletes
- Author of Winning: Reflections on an American Obsession
Sports training
Ben Sporer
Dept. of Family Practice
Led sport science and medicine teams at the Beijing 2008 Olympics with Cycling and the Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014 Olympics with Snowboard
Email: bsporer@resync.ca
- Planning, periodization and training for endurance athletes
- High-performance sport and exercise physiology
- Recovery and regeneration, athlete monitoring
Ethical issues
Judy Illes
Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics
Department of Medicine and School of Population and Public Health
Tel: 604.822.0746
Email: jilles@mail.ubc.ca
- Medico-ethical issues
Sustainability and social impact
Andrea Bundon
Centre for Sport and Sustainability, School of Kinesiology
Tel: 604.822.9168
Email: andrea.bundon@ubc.ca
- Paralympic Movement and the social impacts of the Paralympic Games
Tsur Somerville
Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.822.8343
Email: tsur.somerville@sauder.ubc.ca
- Games’ economic impact – jobs and housing
- Found that real estate prices do not increase or decrease in host cities
James Tansey
Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.827.4443
Email: james.tansey@sauder.ubc.ca
- Sustainability of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Robert VanWynsberghe
Centre for Sport and Sustainability
Tel: 604.822.3580
Email: robert.vanwynsberghe@ubc.ca
- Lead researcher of the 2010 Olympic Games Impact study
- Social, economic and environmental impact of the Games
Margot Young
Faculty of Law
Tel: 604.822.9685
Email: myoung@law.ubc.ca
- LGBTQ issues and the role of the Rio 2016 Olympics in shining a spotlight on human rights abuses
- Social justice, human rights, gender and sports