Dr Richard Weiler

About Dr Richard Weiler

Dr Weiler treats musculoskeletal conditions and sports injuries across all ages and activity levels, with particular expertise in lower limb rehabilitation, tendon injuries, and groin pain. He has worked with Olympic and Paralympic athletes, International and Premier League footballers, and other professional athletes. His career includes roles as FIFA Medical Officer (since 2022), Lead Doctor at West Ham United, and Chief Medical Officer for British Bobsleigh. He qualified from the University of Bristol in 1999, completed an MSc in Sports & Exercise Medicine from UCL in 2008, and defended his PhD thesis in 2023 at Vrije University, Amsterdam on improving para sport concussion care.

Qualifications: PhD MBChB FFSEM (UK) MSc SEM MRCGP PGCME FHEA

Recent and current appointments

• Lead Medical Officer, West Ham United FC
• British Bobsleigh Chief Medical Officer
• Co-Chair Concussion in Para Sport Group (CIPS)
• IBSA Medical Committee
• FIFA Medical Officer (2022 World Cup, 2023 U20 World Cup & Women’s World Cup & 2024 Paris Olympics)
• Honorary Associate Professor in Sport & Exercise Medicine, UCL
• Team GB Medical Officer Winter Olympics 2018 Pyeongchang and 2022 Beijing
• Paralympics GB Medical Officer London 2012 for Blind and Cerebral Palsy Football, Medical Lead for 2016 Rio Preparation Camp
• Sits on the FIFA Expert group on heading in football
• Medicolegal advisory
• FIFA Expert group on heading in football
• British Athletics Medical Officer
• Medical Officer Paralympics GB (London 2012 and Rio 2016)
• Chief Medical Officer, England and Team GB Disability Football, The Football Association
• Honorary Consultant, University College London Hospitals
• Consultant Sport and Exercise Medicine, West Hertfordshire NHS
• Lecturer and external tutor, UCL Institute of Sport, Exercise & Health
• Board of Trustees, American College of Sport Medicine
• Board Member, The Institute of Sports Medicine
• Fellows Board, Map of Medicine
• Patron, Wheelchair Dance Sport Association
• Ambassador DT38 Foundation
• Board of Trustees and Member American College of Sports Medicine

Publications, lectures and teaching

• Former specialty advisor for Sport and Exercise Medicine and physical activity to UK Department of Health. The results of some of this work can be found at: http://www.dh.gov.uk/health/2012/05/sport-medicine/
• Author of over 80 peer reviewed articles on sports medicine and physical activity: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Richard-Weiler/research

Society memberships

• Fellow Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine
• Member British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
• Fellow Higher Education Academy