Dr Gary Zimmerman (Sport and Exercise Medicine Specialist)
- 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
Melbourne
- Address
- Unit 3 5 Chaddesley Ave
St. Kilda East VIC 3183
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9530 6547
- Lifecare Prahran Sports Medicine
- Address
- Level 1 316 Malvern Road
Prahran VIC 3181
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9529 8899
