Dr Gary Zimmerman (Sport and Exercise Medicine Specialist)

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Name
Dr Gary Peter Zimmerman
Qualifications
FACSP 1991
MBBS 1980
Occupation
Sport and Exercise Medicine Specialist
Gender
Male
Medical Specialties
Sport and Exercise Medicine

Gary has a long association with AFL football having previously been club Doctor at Essendon and Richmond Football Clubs and currently Sports Physician at the Western Bulldogs Football Club for the last eleven years. He has a broad involvement in sports medicine, having worked as Doctor for the Australian Olympic Federation, been nominated delegate to the International Olympic Academy in Greece in 1986. He has been a long serving Council Member of Sports Medicine Australia and the AFL Medical Officers’ Association. He has been actively involved in teaching undergraduate and post-graduate students. He has travelled overseas as the Australian Team Doctor for many national sporting teams, including AFL international rules in 1997, 2002/2003.

He is currently the Sports Physician to the Australian Open Tennis Tournament and Medical Consultant to Racing Victoria Limited and the Victorian Jockey Association. Gary has a broad sports medicine experience, caring for recreational athletes of all ages (adults and children), musculoskeletal injuries that occur at work, home or play as well as many elite/professional athletes. Gary has worked for 28 years as an Assistant Orthopaedic Surgeon and is keenly interested in all areas of sports and exercise medicine. He does regular scuba diving medicals and has special interest in groin injuries in sport.

Affiliated Clinics
Epworth Sports & Exercise Medicine Group
Lifecare Prahran Sports Medicine

Practice Locations

VIC

Unit 3 5 Chaddesley Ave
St. Kilda East VIC 3183 
Australia
03 9530 6547
Lifecare Prahran Sports Medicine
Level 1 316 Malvern Road
Prahran VIC 3181 
Australia
03 9529 8899