Sports Medicine
The Sports Clinic at Sydney University
Dr Katherine Rae
Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician
MBBS FACSP
Dr Katherine Rae started working in the field of Sport and Exercise Medicine in 1997. She completed her Sports Medicine Fellowship training with the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians in 2002, after being awarded the College Medal in 2001 for best performance in the Fellowship Examinations. Dr Katherine Rae reports the highlights of her Sports Medicine career as being the two lives that she has saved whilst doing on field sports medicine coverage. The first was an older athlete who had a cardiac arrest after finishing a race at athletics event on her first day ever covering a sports event in 1997, and more recently in 2015 when she correctly diagnosed and treated a tension pneumothorax in a rugby player when he collapsed on the field after being tackled.
Interests
Dr Rae has an interest in AFL, rugby, track and field, basketball and netball injuries through many years of sports coverage in these areas. She has a particular interest in lower limb injuries and is a part of the foot and ankle research group at Sydney Uni, primarily researching syndesmosis sprains. She is also interested in acute trauma and concussion management, as well as biomechanical and overuse syndromes and women and children in sport. Through working with the Elite Athlete Program at Sydney Uni she has also treated elite athletes from a very long and varied list of sports separate to those listed above.
Her personal participation in sports has also been much and varied, including competing in Track and Field, Rugby, and Netball in adult life. She has also participated in various forms of dance including Latin and more recently Ballet.
Team Coverage
- NSW Swifts, Suncorp Super Netball. 2020 - Present
- NSW Waratahs Women, Super W, 2020 – Present
- Sydney University Flames Basketball Team NWBL 2003 - Present
- NSW Country Eagles, National Rugby Championships, 2016 – 2019
- GWS Giants, AFL, 2018
- Sydney University Football Club, NSW Premiership Rugby, 1998 - 2016
- Sydney Stars, National Rugby Championships, 2014 - 2015
- Central Coast Rays, Premiers, Australian Rugby Championships, 2007
- Australian Junior Track & Field Team,World Junior Championships, Italy 2004
- Australian Track and Field Team East Asian Games, Japan, 2003
- Sydney University Sandpipers, NNL 2000 - 2001
Dr Rae has also travelled with the Australian Women’s Hockey and Waterpolo teams and the Australian Junior Netball team to international competitions.
Sports Event Coverage
- Sydney Sevens Tournament, 2017-2020
- Commonwealth Games Local Organising Committee, Netball Sports Specific Medical Officer, 2006
- Olympics and Paralympics 2000, Athlete Care, Olympic Village and Track and Field competition
- Athletics NSW Medical Officer 2003 - 2016
Associations & Memberships
- Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians - Fellow
- Committee member – Indigenous Health Advisory Committee
- Committee member – CPD Committee
- Committee member – Indigenous Health Advisory Committee
- Sports Medicine Australia - Member
- Australian Medical Association - Member
Academic Positions
- Conjoint Lecturer, University NSW, 2013 - present
- Research Affiliate Concussion Research Group, School of Physiotherapy, Sydney Uni, 2020 - Present
- Research Affiliate Foot and Ankle Research Group, Sydney University, 2012 - present
- Sydney Uni School of Physiotherapy, Guest Lecturer 2007 - 2010
At The Sports Clinic, we respect and honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders past, present and future. We acknowledge the stories, traditions and living cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on this land and commit to building a brighter future together.
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