Dr Neil Heron is currently a Clinical Lecturer and has published over 100 peer reviewed articles. He has obtained over £1 million in research funding, including obtaining an external, competitive NIHR PhD Clinical Fellowship. His research interests lie in cardiovascular prevention, physical activity promotion, concussion and injury/illness epidemiology. His clinical work involves GP clinics and as a consultant in sport, exercise and musculoskeletal medicine, caring for elite athletes. This includes being the Global Medical Director for a professional sailing league, a medical officer at British Cycling, a consultant sport physician for the UK Institutes of Sport and a team doctor for the English Football Association.Dr Nick?Mahony is Assistant Professor Anatomy and Course Director of the MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine program, Trinity College Dublin. Following a short career commission in the Royal Navy, Nick completed an MSc in Sports Medicine in 1995 and a PhD in Bioengineering in TCD in 2013. Nick has supervised numerous MSc and PhD students and co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications in areas spanning biomechanics, exercise physiology, anatomy, and sports medicine.
Nick was a founding fellow (2003), board member and Vice-Dean Committee of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine in Ireland (2011-2018) and committee chair of the faculty's Annual Scientific Conference from 2013-2017.