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    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



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