Clinical masterclass series - Episode 3: Update on sports medicine

Mark was appointed as the medical advisor to the Premier League in November 2018 after a decade of experience as a team physician and performance director in that league.

He qualified in 1992 and completed higher specialist training in Emergency Medicine in the West Midlands in 2003. He has a MSc in Sports Medicine from the University of Nottingham and is a founding Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine UK. From 2003-2008 he worked for the English Institute of Sport as a sports physician and in 2008 he became first team doctor at Chelsea FC, before moving to WBA FC as Director of Performance in 2010 and onto Nottingham Forest in 2018. In 2012 he was a member of Team GB at the London Olympics as Chief Medical Officer to the men’s and women’s basketball squads. He was instrumental in the development of the AREA pre-hospital care training course for the Football Association in 2008.

He is a previous chairman of the Premier League Doctors Group and was training program director for Sports & Exercise Medicine in the West Midlands from 2009 – 2016 and deputy chair of the national training committee from 2014-2016.

Kash specialises purely in knees and manages all aspects of knee injuries. He has a particular expertise in sports injuries and knee preservation. He studied medicine at Imperial College, graduating with a Distinction in Surgery. He was awarded Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2005 and the Fellowship (FRCS Tr & Orth) in 2011. He has undertaken a Masters in Medical Education (MEd, with Distinction) and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) research degree. He has given over 100 international presentations, and has
received multiple prizes and awards. Kash completed his subspecialty fellowship in all aspects of knee surgery at the renowned Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford.

He was subsequently awarded the prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowship and spent 6 months in international centres of orthopaedic excellence across the USA. He was appointed as a Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in knees at Barts Health NHS Trust in 2014, one of the busiest hospitals in the country, which receives complex tertiary referrals from a broad area. Kash is also appointed as a Reader in Orthopaedic Surgery & Surgical Education at Barts and the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, QMUL and is an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His academic research focuses on achieving the best patient outcomes and optimising patient safety through surgical education and training using cutting edge techniques.

He is the Training Programme Director for the prestigious Royal London Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery rotation and is a member of the Executive Committees of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee and the Specialist Advisory Committee to the Joint Committee on Surgical Training. He is a co-founder of orthohub and host of the award-winning see one / do one podcast, that has been downloaded in over 120 countries.