Dr Matt Chamberlain
Specialist Sports & Exercise Physician
MBBS, PGDipEpid, FACSEP
Qualifications
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Fellow of Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FACSEP) (2019)
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Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology – University of Newcastle (2005)
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Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery – University of Sydney (1998)
ABOUT DR MATT
Matt is a Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician who is a consultant Sports Physician to the Melbourne Sports Concussion Group consulting from Hawthorn Sports Medicine Centre.
He is also currently the head doctor for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL. Matt has worked in elite sport since 2007, bringing clinical experience across Olympic and professional sports to the consulting room. He enjoys seeing patients of all sporting abilities and ages.
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He is a specialist with the Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP). He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1998, from there gaining experience in General Medicine, Ophthalmology and Emergency Medicine, before settling full time into sports and musculoskeletal medicine.
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Outside clinical medicine, he has ongoing involvement in research into the role of allogeneic adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells in knee osteoarthritis. He has also been published internationally on medical conditions specific to open water swimming and is a reviewer for the Current Sports Medicine Reports (CSMR) journal.

Current sporting associations
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Carlton Football Club - AFL
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Swimming Australia/Swimming Victoria
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Waverley International Gymnastics Centre
Previous sporting associations
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Richmond Football Club
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Australian Swimming Team (Rio and Tokyo Olympics)
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Melbourne Vixens Netball
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Melbourne Victory Youth League
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Dandenong Ranges WNBL team
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Coburg Tigers Football Team