Conference 2026 - Keynote Speakers

Dr Sharron Flahive is a Specialist Sports Medicine consultant having gained Fellowship of the Australasian College of Sport & Exercise Physicians in 2004. She was the first female Sports Physician to be appointed to a professional rugby union team in 1999 when she became the NSW Waratahs Chief Medical Officer. She retained this role with the NSW Waratahs since the date of that appointment until the end of season in 2019, looking after the Team for 20 years! NSWRU honoured this role in 2020 by awarding Sharron life membership. Sharron was also awarded the Joe French award by Rugby Australia for outstanding contribution to Rugby. Sharron is the current Team Doctor for the Wallabies Australian Rugby Union Team, Chief Medical Officer for Equestrian Australian and Club Doctor for the Sydney Swans Football Club.

Sharron may have wide recognition from her long-term involvement with the NSW Waratahs but her work transcends the sporting spectrum, from the first time or recreational sportsperson to the professional athlete.  Her speciality is being to assist all patients’ return to fitness and to resume normal participation in their work and life without pain and dysfunction -irrespective of their level of activity.