Dr Amir Pakravan

Dr Amir Pakravan is a consultant in sport, exercise, and musculoskeletal medicine at Cromwell Hospital. With a background in emergency medicine, he completed his higher specialist training in sport and exercise medicine at Cambridge University Hospitals and Ipswich Hospital.

Dr Pakravan is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to the British Basketball League and Women’s British Basketball League; Consulting Club Doctor to Crystal Palace Football Club in the English Premier League; and Consulting Club Doctor to London Lions Basketball Club in British Basketball League and EuroCup. He has extensive experience of work in elite sports including as a Field of Play Medical Team Leader during the London Olympic and Paralympic games; Itinerant Doctor to the Football Association for England teams; Medical Director to major international sporting events including World Taekwondo Grand Prix and World Para-Taekwondo Championship, Hockey World League Semi-finals, and Hockey Super-6s finals; and Medical Officer to England and GB Hockey, NBA London and Paris Games, and London Marathons and Triathlons.

Dr Pakravan is a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM-UK), Fellow of the Ireland Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM), and a Visiting Senior Fellow in Sport and Exercise Science at University of Suffolk, with further postgraduate qualifications in Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography and Sport and Exercise Medicine (SEM). He is a Board Member and Vice Secretary General of the European College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ECOSEP) and chairs the Fighting Physical Inactivity Committee of the College. He represents ECOSEP in the World Health Organisation’s European network for Health Enhancing Physical Activity (WHO-HEPA Europe), where he has secured an Observer membership status for the College.