Professional profile
Prof Mark E Batt is a Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine
at The Centre for Sports Medicine, Queens Medical Centre,
Nottingham University Hospitals. He has a FT NHS contract and
was a recent fellow at The NHS Institute for Innovation &
Improvement.
He graduated from Cambridge in 1984 and trained in Family
Medicine. He obtained a Diploma in Sports Medicine from the
University of London in 1991 and completed a fellowship in Sports
Medicine at the University of California, Davis (UCD) in
1993. The next two years were spent as a faculty member in
Family Medicine at UCD and as a team physician at the University of
California, Berkeley.
Since 1995, he has been in Nottingham as a Consultant/Senior
Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Medicine at the Queens Medical
Centre: appointed Special Professor in 2004. He was recently
Clinical Director for Trauma and Orthopaedics. He acts as
clinical advisor for the Nottingham MSc/Diploma courses in Sports
Medicine.
He has served as a consultant for The England and Wales Cricket
Board, The Rugby Football League, British Gymnastics, and The
English Institute of Sport. He has been a physician at The
Wimbledon Tennis Championships for 11 years.
He is President of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine
and past chair of the FSEM SAC. He chaired the 2004 work-group,
which produced the case for SEM as a specialty of medicine.
Prof Batt sees and treats NHS patients at the Nottingham NHS
Treatment Centre.
Personal profile
Married with 2 children, 2 dogs, 14 chickens and a guinea
pig
Current NHS or research position
Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine at The Centre for
Sports Medicine, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham University
Hospitals. Special Professor University of Nottingham.
Special clinical interests
- Sports injuries: overuse and acute
- Soft tissue injuries
- Illness and ailments from physical activity, exercise and
sport
- Children, adults and elderly
Research interests
Overuse injuries, particularly groin, low back, lower leg pain
(shin splints and stress fractures), tendon disease and exercise in
the workplace.
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies
- British Medical Association
- Royal College of General Practitioners
- British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
- American Medical Society for Sports Medicine - Charter Member
1992
- American College of Sports Medicine - Fellow 1998
- Irish Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine - Fellow 2004
- Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK) - Foundation Fellow
2006
- Royal College of Physicians - Elected Fellow 2009