cardiovascular assessment of Athletes
cardiovascular assessment of Athletes
THE HEART
Investigation and Management
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Athletic HEART Screening and Fitness Assessment
Click on one of the following:
1. Athletic Heart Screening and Sudden Cardiac Death
2. Athletic Fitness Assessment
Prof John Somauroo has been involved in the management of players from Football Premier League clubs including Manchester United, Everton and Newcastle United. He is also the Cardiologist to Sale Rugby Club. He has been integral at setting up the national screening of all English Premiership Rugby Union players working with CRY and is lead Cardiologist in one of only two centres in England endorsed by the RFU for referrals following cardiac screening.



Professor John Somauroo receiving his Fellowship to the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in 2008.
He continues to research physiological versus pathological changes in athletes’ hearts. Current research includes effects of exercise on ultra-endurance runners, footballers and rugby players. He has published papers on the effects of training on teenage professional football players. He lectures on this topic nationally and internationally.
Professor John Somauroo
MB BS BMedSci(Hons) FRCP(Lond) FRCP(Edin) FFSEM
Consultant Cardiologist and Physician in General Internal Medicine
Professor in Cardiovascular, Sports and Exercise Medicine, University of Chester
Honorary Research Fellow, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences (RISES) Liverpool John Moores University
Fellow of Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine
Fellow of Royal College of Physicians London
Fellow of Royal College Physicians Edinburgh
Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY)
Rugby Football Union (RFU) Cardiac Screening Cardiologist
Cardiologist to Sale Rugby Club
Honorary Patron of Sports Medicine Society
Rugby Football Union Coach
