Osman Ahmed, PhD, PGDip (Sports Physiotherapy)

Expert Advisory Board Member
Expert Guest Speaker
Internship Project Mentor

Dr Osman Ahmed is a Physiotherapist at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (Poole, England) and is the Physiotherapy Lead and Classification Lead for Para Football at the Football Association, England. He trained as a Physiotherapist at the University of Nottingham (England), before undertaking his Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Physiotherapy and subsequently his PhD at the University of Otago (New Zealand) on concussion in sport. He is employed by the Football Association (FA) to work as a Physiotherapist with their elite disability squads and has been a member of the Team GB medical staff at both the 2008 Beijing and 2016 Paralympic Games. He teaches on the FA’s Advanced Trauma Medical Management course and also holds the position of Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth (England).

His PhD was focused on sports concussion and Facebook, and since then, he has both published and presented widely (primarily on concussion in sport and technology in healthcare). He holds several governance roles within Para Sports federations, including Medical & Sports Science Director at the International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football, Medical Unit Co-Lead at the Para Football Foundation, and Medical Committee member of the International Blind Sport Association. He is a Co-Chair of the Concussion in Para Sport Group, and was a member of the Scientific Committee for the 6th International Conference on Concussion in Sport in 2022.

Osman holds Associate Editor positions at the British Journal of Sports Medicine and at BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine and sits on the Institutional Ethics committee of World Rugby as an external member. He is passionate about para sport and improving the safety of athletes with an impairment.