Dr Jo Larkin

About Dr Jo Larkin

Dr Larkin brings extensive experience treating elite athletes and managing musculoskeletal conditions across all fitness levels. She serves as Global Medical Director for SailGP and previously held the position of Chief Medical Officer for the LTA. Her career includes involvement with two Olympic Games and one Paralympic Games, including service at London 2012 and Rio as team physician for GB Rugby 7s, and she spent eight years with England Rugby across all teams, developing specialisation in women's health and performance. Through military service at Headley Court and leadership of the Spines department, she developed expertise in chronic pain management and understanding the multifaceted components of pain.

Qualifications: MBChB BSc MSc DipSEM PGCert (US MSK) FFSEM

Recent and current appointments

• Global Medical Director for SailGP
• Chief Medical Officer for the LTA
• England RFU International Performance Doctor for England Sevens and Women’s XVs Rugby
• GB7 Men’s and Women’s team physician
• Elected Member of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine
• RFU Immediate Care in Sport Instructor
• International Paralympic Classifier
• Elected Member of the Council for the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine
• Elected Member of the Royal College of Physicians Sport & Exercise Medicine Committee
• Previous head of Spines Rehabilitation for the Armed Forces at DMRC Headley Court

Publications, lectures and teaching

• Honorary lecturer on the MSc in Sports Medicine at the University College of London
• Honorary lecturer on the MSc programme at CNELM
• Best practice guidelines for the MOD for low back pain
• Emergency Medicine Journal (BMJ): Changes to the cardiac biomarkers of non-elite athletes completing the 2009 London Marathon
• NHS Shared Decision Making – Cholesterol
• Pulse article: ankle injuries
• Letter to the editor of the BMJ: Exercise and depression
• Tower Hamlets Public Health – Needs assessment for physical activity in cancer survivors
• BJSM Blog
• Tower Hamlets Public Health – Needs assessment for physical activity in cancer survivors.
• Contributing author to “SEM: A fresh Approach”
• Contributor to the "Tower Hamlets Physical Activity Care Pathway for Adults"
• Contributor to the "BMA Sports Injuries Book" – 4 chapters

Society memberships

• Fellow Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine
• Member British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
• Member of the Royal Society of Medicine