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Dr Tom Cross
Sport & Exercise Physician - Dr Tom Cross
Professional Bio
The role of the Sport & Exercise Physician is to obtain an early accurate diagnosis and thereafter discuss the best treatment options with the patient.
Sports medicine problems are most commonly injuries to the musculoskeletal system but also may involve medical illnesses that trouble active individuals such as asthma, fatigue, infectious diseases, concussion etc.
Sports medicine patients cover the spectrum of life from very young children to the frail elderly. The patients vary from being sedentary adults who get injured at work or home to full-time elite/professional athletes.
The Sport & Exercise Physician aims to return the patient to their former level of function as soon as practically possible. The Physician should share the patients' love of sport and exercise and try to enable them to make a safe return to their activity.
Dr Tom Cross has practised sports medicine for the past 25 years and during that time successfully completed 5 years of specialist post-graduate training in sport & exercise medicine and gained fellowship to the ACSEP (Australasian College of Sport & Exercise Physicians, (https://www.acsep.org.au/).
Prior to specializing in sports medicine Dr Cross gained a broad medical experience working as a Resident Doctor for 3 years in the NSW public hospitals, including 1 year specialising in paediatrics at the New Hospital for Children (Westmead) where he gained a Diploma in Child Health.
Dr Cross has broad sports medicine experience caring for recreational athletes (adults and children), musculoskeletal injuries that occur at work or home, elite/professional athletes and also military personnel.
His abbreviated CV includes:
- 2021-2022 Assistant Team Doctor Melbourne Storm NRL Team: Sydney games
- 2021-2022 Assistant Team Doctor Gold Coast Titans NRL Team: Sydney games
- 2004-2022 Specialist Consultant in “Sport and Exercise Medicine” : Sydney
- 2016-2020 Head Doctor to Sydney Swans Football Club
- 2012-2019 Consultant Doctor for Cirque du Soleil performance in Sydney ( Kurios, Kooza, Totem and Ovo.)
- 2019 Consultant Doctor for NBA in Sydney: USA versus Canada and Australian Boomers.
- 2019 Keynote speaker at the Northern Lights Conference, Scandinavia
- 2016 "NRL Rookie TV series Channel 9" Head Doctor
- 2015 Consultant Doctor to Les Miserables musical performing in Sydney
- 2014-2015 Assistant team Doctor for the Sydney Roosters Rugby League Club
- 2014 Liaison Doctor to Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball in Sydney
- 2012-2015 Queensland State of Origin NRL Assistant Team Doctor
- 2012-2015 Melbourne Storm NRL: Assistant Team Doctor Sydney games
- 2011-2017 Sydney Swans Football Club: Junior Swans Academy Consultant Doctor
- 2008-2011 Canberra Raiders Rugby League: Assistant Team Doctor Sydney games
- 2005 Sydney Swans Football Club: Assistant Team Doctor
- 2004-2017 Medical reviewer British Journal of Sports Medicine
- 2004-2017 Honorary Doctor North Bondi SLSC
- 2004-2016 Australian Rugby Union Wallabies: Medical room doctor: Sydney Test matches
- 2004-2014 NSW Waratahs Rugby Union: Assistant Team Doctor
- 2003-2015 Consultant Sports Medicine Doctor to the Royal Australian Navy Clearance Divers at HMS Penguin.
- 2002-2003 Consulting in Sports Medicine, Canberra
- 2001-2003 Consultant in Sports medicine to Royal Military College, Duntroon, ACT
- 2001 Australian Institute of Sport, ACT, Fellowship in Sports Medicine
- 2000 Volunteer Sports Doctor (Sydney Olympics and Paralympics)
- 1998-2000 Sydney Swans Football Club: Assistant Team Doctor
- 1997-2000 Sports Medicine Registrar consulting in Sydney
- 1997 Team Doctor for Manly Rugby League Juniors