Dr Ewen Bradbery awarded Ken Fitch Fellowship for 2025
Congratulations to Dr Ewen Bradbery who was recently announced as the 2025 recipient of the Ken Fitch Fellowship.
Dr Bradbery completed his medical degree through the University of New England and the University of Newcastle through its joint Medical Program.
He then went onto work in the hospitals of Newcastle, completed his General Practice fellowship in Canberra, before returning to Newcastle to start his formal Sports and Exercise medicine training.
He is currently a Registrar at the Australian Institute of Sport and is awaiting fellowship with the Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians.
The 12-month Ken Fitch Fellowship aims to improve knowledge and skill in anti-doping medicine while providing an opportunity for the recipient to work closely with members of the Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Committee (ASDMAC) and the Science and Medicine team within Sport Integrity Australia (SIA).
The ASDMAC is an independent statutory body established under the Sport Integrity Australia Act 2020.
Members are appointed by the Minister for Sport and are senior specialist doctors trained in Sport and Exercise Medicine and have broad experience in professional, Olympic and Paralympic sports, as well as anti-doping medicine.
The ASDMAC is responsible for the assessment of Therapeutic Use Exemptions and provision of anti-doping related medical advice to SIA, sporting bodies and doctors.
Dr Bradbery said he was grateful to receive the 2025 Fellowship.
“It’s a big opportunity to get involved with the ASDMAC.
“There are a lot of good people who went for the fellowship; I was very fortunate to be the one selected.”
Through the Fellowship, Dr Bradbery hopes to gain more experience within the anti-doping framework while also working with an esteemed panel of sports physicians.
“Gaining that experience with that knowledge around me and hopefully being able to continue that, either through working within sport myself as a Chief Medical Officer or coming and working with the ASDMAC committee at some point in my career would be really rewarding,” he said.
The Fellowship honours the work of Adjunct Professor Ken Fitch OA, who was the inaugural Chair of ASDMAC until his retirement in 2013 and helped shape the field of sports medicine in Australia and internationally.
In 1985, Ken became a member of the Australian Sports Commission’s National Program on Drugs in Sport (later the Australian Sports Drug Agency) and was deputy chairman from 1987 to 1992. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians and a world leader in the field of anti-doping.
