Members of the FIMS Executive Committee

Meet the current members of the FIMS Executive Committee:

President 

Prof. Fabio Pigozzi, MD, ITALY
Office: University of Rome "Foro Italico", Piazza Lauro de Bosis, 15, 00135, Rome, ITALY
Tel.: +39 06 36733 569/296
Fax: +39 06 3613065
Email: president@fims.org

Secretary General

Prof. José Kawazoe Lazzoli, MD, BRAZIL
Office: Clinica Cor Diagnose, Rua do Imperador, 804 - 6º andar, 25620-001, Petropolis, RJ, BRAZIL. Cardiology Division, Hospital Santa Teresa, Rua Paulino Afonso, 477, 25684-900, Petropolis, RJ, BRAZIL.
Tel / Fax: +55 24 2231 8958 / +55 24 2237 9374
Email: jklazzoli@uol.com.br

Treasurer

Dr. Rafael Augusto Robles Cabrera, MD, GUATEMALA
Office: 17 Ave "A" 6-05 Zone 15, Guatemale, GUATEMALA
Tel.: +502 236 96918
Fax: +502 236 90775
Email: rarobles51@gmail.com

Honorary President

Prof. Eduardo H De Rose, MD, PhD, BRAZIL
Office: Rua Felipe Becker 95, Tres Figueiras, 91330-250 Porto Alegre, RS-BRAZIL
Tel.: +55 51 3381 2136
Email: ehderose@terra.com.br 

Vice Presidents

 

Prof. Sandra Rozenstoka, MD, LATVIA
Office: Brivibas street 363, Riga, LV-1024
Tel.: +371 26557425
Email:  sandra@sportlab.lv; secretary.general@efsma.org;

Dr. Ana Virginia Cintron-Rodriguez, MD, FAAPmR, PUERTO RICO
Office: University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine
Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine
Paseo Las Vistas II, 116 Street I, San Juan
00926, PUERTO RICO
Email:anacintron@gmail.com

Dr Maher ZAHAR DDS-MS, TUNISIA
Office: centre PHENICIA -AVENUE Bourguiba - LA MARSA, TUNISIA
Tel: +21671740275
E-mail : dr.mzahar@planet.tn

Prof. Yung Shu Hang Patrick, MD, HONG KONG, CHINA
Office: Chairman, Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 3505 2728
Fax: (852) 26463020
Email: patrickyung@cuhk.edu.hk

Elected Members
 

Prof. Bülent Ülkar, MD, TÜRKIYE
Office: Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine, Sports Medicine Department, Ankara, TURKIYE
Tel.: +90 532 5695741
Email: ulkar@medicine.ankara.edu.tr; bulkar@me.com

Prof. Mark Hutchinson U.S.A.
Office: 
Email:mhutchsportsmd@gmail.com

Prof. Pedro Manonelles Marqueta, MD, SPAIN
Associate Professor
Past President of the Spanish Federation of Sports Medicine
Director of Archives of Sports Medicine Journal
Chair Professor in Sports Medicine.
Office: San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia
Avda. de Movera nº 420-14
50194 – Zaragoza
SPAIN
Tel: +34 976 237129
E-mail: pmanonelles@femede.es

Prof. Dr. Günther Neumayr, AUSTRIA
Michaelsgasse 20, A-9900 Lienz, Austria
Tel.: +43 4852 61952
Fax: +43 4852 61952-61
Email: neumayr.g@aon.at

Dr. Xia Zhang, CHINA
China National Institute of Sports Medicine (NISM) A2 Pangmen, Tiyuguan Road, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100061, CHINA
Tel: +86 13911982335
Fax: +86 10 67192755
E-mail: zhangxia_mail@sina.com

Prof. Andrea Mattiozzi D'Arcangelo, URUGUAY
Tel: + 598 97218409
Email: andreamattiozzi@gmail.com

Dr. Andrew Jowett, AUSTRALIA
Office: Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre, AAMI Park, 60 Olympic Boulevard, Melbourne 3004, AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 3 94204300
Fax: +61 3 94204352
E-mail : opsmc@opsmc.com.au 

Website: www.opsmc.com.au

Dr. Khaled Massoud, MD, PhD EGYPT
PhD in Sports Sciences, Specializing in Sports Physiology
First Deputy of the Egyptian Ministry of Youth & Sport
Head of the youth sector
Secretary General and Treasurer of the African Union of Sports Medicine (U.A.M.S.)
EGYPT
Email: drkhaledmassoud@yahoo.com, khaled@emss.gov.eg

Commission Chairs

 

Scientific Commission

Prof Yannis Pitsiladis (Greece- Great Britain)
Head and Professor
Department of Sports and Health Sciences
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong
Hong Kong
E-mail: ypitsiladis@hkbu.edu.hk

Education Commission

Prof. Demitri Constantinou
Office: Wits Education Campus, 27 St. Andrew's Road. Parktown. Johannesburg. SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 (0)11 717 3396
Fax:+27 (0)86 6363 173
Email: demitri.constantinou@wits.ac.za

Interfederal Commission

Dr. Christian Schneider, GERMANY
Office: Orthopädiezentrum Theresie, Theresienhöhe 13A, 80339 München, GERMANY
Tel: +49 89 55276020
Email: dr.schneider@oz-theresie.de

Development Commission

Dr. Maurizio Casasco, MD, ITALY

Federazione Medico Sportiva Italiana - FMSI
Viale Tiziano 70, 00196, Roma, ITALY
Tel. +39-0687974905/7
Email: president.efsma@fmsi.it

Co-opted Members

 

Representative of the Association of International Olympic Winter Federations (AIOWF)

Dr. Christian Schneider, GERMANY
Office: Orthopädiezentrum Theresie, Theresienhöhe 13A, 80339 München, GERMANY 
Tel: +49 89 6211-4060
Fax: +49 89 6211-4062
Email: dr.schneider@oz-theresie.de

Representative of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF)

Prof. Xavier Bigard, FRANCE
UCI Medical Director
Tel. : +41 24 468 58 11
Fax: +41 24 468 58 09
Email: xavier.bigard@uci.ch

Representative of the International Olympic Committee    To be appointed

 

Representative of the International Paralympic Committee


Office: International Paralympic Committee (IPC), Adenauerallee 212-214, 53113 Bonn, GERMANY
Tel: + 49 288 2097 200
Fax: +49 228 2097 209
Email: info@paralympic.org

Representative of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

Prof. Olivier Rabin
Senior Director, Science and Medicine, World Anti-Doping Agency
Email: olivier.rabin@wada-ama.org

Coordination of the C.C.S.M. Headquarters Project

Prof. Guo-Ping Li, MD, CHINA
Office: China National Institute of Sports Medicine, West Gate, 4 Tiyuguan Road, Chongwen District, Beijing 100061, P.R. CHINA
Tel.: +86 01 67192750
Fax: +86 01 67192755
Email: Ligp@263.net

In Attendance

 

Legal Advisor

Prof. Michael Geistlinger, AUSTRIA
Department International Law, European Law, Fundaments of Law. University of Salzburg. Churfürststrasse 1. A – 5020 Salzburg and private A-5542 Flachau, Wastlgasse 252, AUSTRIA
Phone: +43 676 5352622 Fax: +43 6457 300713.
Email: Michael.geistlinger@plus.ac.at

Legal Advisor

Prof. Bruno Di Pietro, ITALY
University "Mercatorum" – Rome
Office: Via del Corso n.107 – RomE, ITALY
Phone: +39 06 6991630 Fax: +39 06 6780705
Email: dipietro.bruno@gmail.com

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