Dr Mark Gillett & Tony Bennison

Biography:

Dr Mark Gillett (Lead A&E Consultant at Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield, Sports Physician)

Mark has worked in sports medicine for a number of years, initially with swimming and more recently with tennis and basketball. He was the Medical Officer to Team England at the 2002 Commonwealth games, and to the GB team at the 2001 World University Games. He now combines working for the English Institute of Sport with a consultant training programme in Emergency Medicine based in the NHS.

Tony Bennison trained as a Combat Medical Technician with the British Army in 1987 he served in various theatres and on attachments to civilian A&E departments and the London Ambulance Service. He is a Lecturer in Resuscitation at Middlesex University, training Doctors, Nurses, Physiotherapists and Midwives in Basic, Paediatric, Maternal and Advanced Life Support, Trauma Management and Resuscitation Ethics. He is a qualified Rugby coach, League and Union and has lectured extensively for Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports Medicine and British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine.

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