Susan White AM
Susan White AM
- Student type: Domestic
- Degree type: Double Degree
- Degree(s): Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Formerly Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (now Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine)
Dr Susan White is a Specialist Sports and Exercise Physician who is currently the Chief Medical Officer and Director of Performance Health Services at the Victorian Institute of Sport in Melbourne. Her original medical training was at Monash University and then at Prince Henry’s Hospital and Monash Medical Centre, graduating in 1989.
Dr White was in the first group of four doctors in Australia that completed the fellowship training for the new Sports Physicians’ College and became a Fellow of the Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians in 1996. Since then she has consulted in private practice at Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre for over 25 years, has been to three Paralympic Games, five Olympic Games, many Commonwealth Games and World Championships in roles ranging from Team Physician to Medical Director, as well as International Medical Commission and Australian Olympic and Paralympic Commission roles. She was the Chief Medical Officer for Australian Netball for more than 10 years and has had similar roles with Swimming Australia and Victorian Rowing.
Dr White was an inaugural member of ASDMAC, the Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Committee in 1999 and has been Chair since 2013,. She has been on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Therapeutic Use Expert Advisory Group for the last 12 years, which she currently Chairs, as well as previous roles with FINA’s (International Swimming) Doping Control Review Board and the International Paralympic Committee. Dr White is on the Selection Advisory Committee for the National Sports Tribunal and has sat on many tribunals to consider anti-doping rule violations, including AFL and Cricket Australia’s Anti-Doping Tribunals.
Dr White is on the Editorial Board of the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine and previously held an Adjunct Senior Lecturer position in the Department of Medicine and Surgery at Monash University. She was awarded a Fellowship of Sports Medicine Australia (FASMF)in 2002 for her work with female athletes.
In 2016 she was awarded a Fellowship of Monash University and in 2019 was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of services to sports medicine and anti-doping.