‘Sports injuries, especially concussion, and a comparison of frequency and severity in men cf. women’
Location: General Meeting to be held at the Melbourne Club.
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2025
Time: 6.30 pm – 11.30 pm
Dress: Black tie
Acceptances close July 17, 2025
From Little Athletics to Olympic Games and World championships Dr Peter Larkins has seen it all at elite sport level.
He has been a doctor for the Australian athletics, cricket, triathlon, and lacrosse teams at the highest level. He was Medical Team Leader at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games main stadium and currently is one of 8 global advisers for medical care at the World Ironman triathlon competitions.
Peter will share some of his career experiences in sport and reflect on the challenges associated with elite athlete care in the current modern era. He believes the scrutiny and pressures place on professional working in the sports medicine arena have never been greater and have resulted in many senior practitioners moving away from elite athlete care roles.
Dr Peter Larkins has been a pioneer of sportsmedicine in Australia. He established the first solo specialist sports physician practice in Australia in 1980. Peter completed his medical degree at the Alfred hospital in Melbourne and his residency program at Prince Henry’s Hospital.
During his training Peter was awarded the Hume Turnbull research Fellowship and was the inaugural Sir Robert Menzies Travelling Fellow in sports medicine, which allowed him to study sports medicine emerging trends in Canada, the USA, the UK and East Africa.
He is a past National President of Sports Medicine Australia, Australia’s peak advisory body on health and fitness matters. Peter is a Founding Fellow of the Australasian College of Sports & Exercise Physicians and has been an officer bearer at Board level as well as on the College Senior Examiners Panel and Board of Censors.
Peter represented Australia for nine years as a member of the national track & field team, including competing at Olympic, Commonwealth and World Cup competitions. He was Australian team captain in 1983.
He is regularly invited speaker on topics related to health, fitness and sports injuries. For 21 years Peter was the “go to” authority on AFL injuries in his various media roles with Triple and 3AW radio broadcasts as well as channel 9, channel 7 and Fox Footy Channels.
He has appeared on countless TV segments including every nightly news channel, Sunrise, the Today Show, A Current Affair, 7.30 report, SBS Insight and The Project. He also had a regular weekly column in the Herald Sun, Australia’s largest distribution daily newspaper.
He currently works in clinical practice as Co-Founder of the Epworth Sports & Exercise Group in Richmond and has a corporate speaking business, promoting healthy living principles and productivity life and in the workplace through simple lifestyle practices.
In 2024 he published his new book, “The Health Hundred- 100 Ways to a Healthier, Happier & Longer Life” which was awarded second prize in the prestigious Australian Business Book Awards in the “Personal Development” category.