Dr Peter Brukner OAM profoundly inspired a generation of sports medicine practitioners, co-authoring the widely used textbook, Clinical Sports Medicine.
Peter founded the largest sports medicine centre in Australia: Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne and is a founding member of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians, where he played a vital role in developing and recognising sports medicine as a full medical specialty.
As Professor of Sports Medicine at Latrobe University, he established the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, a world-leading research centre in sports medicine.
After his own health issues, Peter established the not-for-profit SugarByHalf, which has produced far-reaching lessons for schoolchildren on the adverse effects of excessive added sugar. He wrote the best-selling books, A Fat Lot of Good and The Diabetes Plan, and founded Defeat Diabetes, an app- and web-based program endorsed by Diabetes Australia that aims to send type 2 diabetes into remission.
Talking Points
We are getting fatter and sicker. What are we going to do about it?
We are getting fatter and sicker - and what we can do about it, especially in relation to nutrition. For 40 years we have been telling people the wrong things about what we should eat and the results have been disastrous obesity, Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimers disease etc. It is time to re-think what we have been telling people to eat.
We are getting fatter and sicker. What are we going to do about it?
A Life in Sport and Medicine
All I ever wanted was a job that paid me to watch sport and I have managed to do that all over the world for the past 30 years. Team doctor jobs with AFL, national swimming, hockey, and athletics teams, the Socceroos and Liverpool FC, the Australian cricket team, Olympic and Commonwealth Games, World Cups and Ashes Test series have given me a unique insider's view of elite sport.
A Life in Sport and Medicine
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Meet your Australians - 2025 VIC Senior Australian of the Year Peter Brukner OAM
Dr Peter Brukner OAM profoundly inspired a generation of sports medicine practitioners, co-authoring the widely used textbook, Clinical Sports Medicine. Peter founded the largest sports medicine centre in Australia: Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne and is a founding member of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians, where he played a vital role in developing and recognising sports medicine as a full medical specialty. As Professor of Sports Medicine at Latrobe University, he established the La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, a world-leading research centre in sports medicine. After his own health issues, Peter established the not-for-profit SugarByHalf, which has produced far-reaching lessons for schoolchildren on the adverse effects of excessive added sugar. He wrote the best-selling books, A Fat Lot of Good and The Diabetes Plan, and founded Defeat Diabetes, an app- and web-based program endorsed by Diabetes Australia that aims to send type 2 diabetes into remission.Dr. Peter Brukner - 'SugarByHalf: Anatomy of a Campaign'
Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a specialist sports and exercise physician and the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. He has recently been Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club as well as team doctor for the Australian cricket team.
