Sport and Exercise Physician

Dr Kylie Shaw

MBChB, MSpM, FACSEP

Founder and Director of Specialist Sports Medicine Centre

With more than 15 years of sports medicine experience, Dr Kylie Shaw is passionate about helping anyone enrich their lives through exercise, whether their goal is elite sports performance or undertaking regular physical activity for optimisation of physical and mental health.

Dr Shaw is a qualified medical practitioner and has completed an additional 5 years of specialist training to become a Fellow of the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (FACSEP). She is a Clinical Training Supervisor to registrars of the ACSEP and enjoys teaching the next generation of Sport and Exercise Physicians.

She has previously been involved with a number of elite teams including the Canberra Raiders NRL Club and the Australian Under 22 Men’s Basketball team and has recently been the State Medical Officer for ACT Cricket and the ACT Meteors. She currently works with the UC Capitals WNBL team.

Team Involvement and Achievement
  • UC Capitals CMO 2022-present
  • ACT Cricket State Medical Officer 2016-2024
  • Canberra Raiders NRL Club Doctor 2006-2007
  • Prime Ministers Australian XV Rugby Union Team, Japan Tour 2006
  • Stitching Doctor Brumbies Rugby Union Super 14 Rugby 2006-2007
  • Australian Provincial Rugby Championship (ACT Team Doctor) 2006-2007
  • Chief Medical Officer for Basketball, Commonwealth Games Melbourne 2006
  • Australian Under 22 Mens Basketball Team 2004-2005 (Basketball Australia)
  • Melbourne University Blues Football Club (ARF) 2002-2003
  • Melbourne University Sport Team Physician, Australian University Games 2002-2003
  • World University Games Australian Team Physician, World University Games 2003 Daegu, South Korea
  • Commonwealth Games 2006 Polyclinic Coverage Athletes Village
  • Arafura Games 2005 Darwin
  • World Deaflympic Games 2005 Melbourne
  • Youth Commonwealth Games 2004 Bendigo, International Rugby Sevens Tournament
  • Australian Masters Games 2004 Alice Springs
  • Inter-Collegiate Rugby Tournament, Melbourne University 2003
  • World Masters Games 2002 Melbourne
  • Netball National Championships 2003 Doctor Available for Consultation
  • Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians
  • Content Writer ACSEP Module Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport
  • Clinical Examiner for ACSEP Fellowship Exams 2018-present
  • ACT State Training Co-ordinator and Training Committee Member 2011-2017
  • Conference Co-ordinator, 2006 ACSEP Registrars Conference
Educational Qualifications
  • Fellow of the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians 2008 (FACSEP)
  • Masters in Sports Medicine 2005 Melb (MSpM)
  • MBChB University of Otago Medical School (NZ) 1999
Publications
  • Kylie Louise Sellwood, Peter Brukner, David Williams, Alastair Nicol, and Rana Hinman. Ice-water immersion and delayed-onset muscle soreness: a randomised controlled trial. Br. J. Sports Med., Jun 2007; 41: 392 – 397
  • White S & Sellwood K. Bone Stress in females-the state of play. Medicine Today Jan 2005.
  • Masters Thesis: Ice Water immersion and Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness 2005. Melbourne University.

Sport and exercise medicine registrar

Dr Martin Schutte

BChiroSc, MChiroprac (Macq), MChD (ANU)

Martin is a senior registrar with the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP). He has a broad range of experience in sport and exercise medicine and enjoys helping people from all walks of life to engage in exercise and physical activity.

Alongside clinical practice at Specialist Sports Medicine Centre, Martin is the State Medical Officer for Cricket ACT, and the Chief Medical Officer/Head Doctor at the ACT Brumbies Rugby.

He was the recipient of the 2024 Dr Ken Crichton NRL Medical Training Fellowship.

A Canberra local, Martin attended the Australian National University Medical School, graduating with commendation in 2019. He completed his internship at the Canberra Hospital with further foundational medical training in Perth prior to commencing his specialist training in Adelaide.

Martin is actively involved in research related to concussion in elite-level rugby league players and serves on the ACSEP training committee.

He has a broad range of experience in sport and exercise medicine, having been the team doctor for the North Adelaide Football Club (SANFL), South Fremantle Football Club (WAFL) and Western Force (Super W), fulfilling match day medical roles in the Sheffield Shield, Women’s National Cricket League, NBL, WNBL ,and Super Netball, alongside working in a busy community sports medicine practice.

Martin is actively involved in research related to concussion in former elite-level rugby league players and will be working with the Canberra Raiders during the 2025 NRL season.

 

Team Involvement and Achievements
  1. Chief Medical Officer ACT Brumbies Rugby
  2. State Medical Officer – Cricket ACT/ACT Meteors, 2024 – present
  3. Assistant Chief Medical Officer – Canberra International Tennis 2025
  4. Assistant Club Medical Officer – Canberra Raiders,  2024 – 2025
  5. Tour Doctor – Australian U19 Men’s Cricket Team (India) 2024
  6. Club Doctor –  North Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) 2023
  7. Club Doctor – South Fremantle Football Club (WAFL) 2022
  8. Team Doctor – Western Force (Super W), 2022
  9. Match-Day Doctor – Sheffield Shield, Big Bash League, NBL, WNBL, AFL-W, A-League Men, Hockey One

 

Research

– Characterising post-concussion symptoms in medically diagnosed concussion in the National Rugby League –  in progress.

Educational Qualifications

– Medicinae ac Chirurgiae Doctoranda (with Commendation), Australian National University, 2019

– Master of Chiropractic, Macquarie University, 2013

– Bachelor of Chiropractic Science, Macquarie University, 2011

Sports Dietitian

Erica Stephens

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Erica is an Accredited Sports Dietitian, an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Level 1 Anthropometrist. She has earned the International Olympic Committee Diploma in Sports Nutrition, a Master of Nutrition and Dietetics (Griffith University) and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Food Science and Nutrition; University of Queensland).

Erica consults at Specialist Sports Medicine Centre, while also providing contractual services to:
– Canberra Raiders
– ACT Meteors WNCL team

She has previously provided contractual services to the ACT Academy of Sport and the Tuggeranong Vikings Rugby Union Academy program.

Erica provides private consultations on all aspects of nutrition. This can include assistance with fueling and hydrating for training and competition, Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDS), body composition manipulation and assessment, general healthy eating advice, chronic disease management (such as IBS, high cholesterol, coeliac disease) and eating disorders/disordered eating.

In the past, Erica has been employed as a Clinical Dietitian at Yass Hospital.

She has also had extensive experience as an athlete, representing Australia in the sport of Taekwondo.

Erica is a member of Sports Dietitians Australia (SDA) and Dietitians Australia (DA); the two peak organisations for nutrition in Australia. She is a Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician through ANZAED. She has also completed FODMAP training (‘Low FODMAP Diet for IBS’) for health professionals with Monash University.

Sport and exercise physician

Dr Greg Macleod

MBChB BPhty BPhEd BSc PGDipSportsMed DCH (Otago), FACSEP

Greg Macleod is no longer practicing with us, having moved to New Zealand with his family. He has been a core part of the Specialist Sports Medicine Centre team, and we understand he was a core part of many patient’s care teams. If you wish to continue care with us and used to see Dr Macleod, please reach out to us – we are happy to assist you in a transition to an alternative doctor.