Dr John Rogers

Dr Rogers works as a Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine for University Hospital South Manchester and as a Sports Physician with British Athletics, Manchester Giants Basketball team and ORRECO. He qualified in Medicine from Queen’s University Belfast in 1997 and developed an interest in Sports Medicine during his own athletics career as an 800m and 1500m runner.

Dr Rogers works as a Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine for University Hospital South Manchester and as a Sports Physician with British Athletics, Manchester Giants Basketball team and ORRECO. He qualified in Medicine from Queen’s University Belfast in 1997 and developed an interest in Sports Medicine during his own athletics career as an 800m and 1500m runner. He initially trained as a General Practitioner and worked for 2 years as a GP partner in Manchester. He spent 2 years working as an exercise medicine physician with Wellness International at Adidas UK before spending a further 2 years of higher specialist training as a registrar in Sport and Exercise Medicine in the London Deanery where he worked at the British Olympic Medical Institute, Charing Cross Hospital and with Chelsea FC Academy. He completed his sports medicine training at the Royal Hallamshire and Northern General Hospitals in Sheffield. His first Consultant post was at the tertiary referral Defence Military Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court in Surrey where he led multi-disciplinary hip and groin and lower limb rehabilitation clinics.

From 2008 to 2013 he worked as Endurance / Institute Medical Officer to British Athletics at their National Performance Institute in Loughborough. This involved working closely with Team GB’s leading endurance athletes in the 3 years preceding the London Olympics at altitude training camps in Font Romeu, France and Iten, Kenya. He worked extensively with GB & N Ireland teams at World and European Cross Country Championships during this time. He worked trackside at the London Olympic Games in 2012, was Lead Doctor to the British Paralympic Athletics Team for the IPC World Championships in France in 2013 and was Chief Medical Officer to Team GB for the Youth Olympic Games in China in 2014.

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