Dr Mike Webb

Sports Physician

Dr Michael Webb has been the sports physician at the Sports Institute of Northern Ireland (SINI) since 2004. He qualified in medicine from Dublin University in 1991 and gained a diploma in sports medicine from the Scottish Royal Colleges in 1998.

Dr Webb has extensive experience working both as a general practitioner and as a sports physician in elite sport. He has worked with a variety of Ulster and Ireland rugby teams since 2000. Currently he is a team doctor to the Ulster senior rugby team and was team doctor for the Ireland rugby team that won the Six Nations Grand Slam in 2009. He also acted as team doctor to the Ireland senior rugby teams that toured Japan in 2005, Argentina in 2007 and North America in 2009. He was formerly team doctor for the Belfast Giants Ice Hockey team between 2001 and 2003.

Dr Webb is a Fellow of both the Irish and UK Faculties of Sport and Exercise Medicine and is a member of the British Olympic Medical Committee. He is a committee member and former Chairman of BASEM (N Ireland).

Dr Webb has delivered lectures at a wide variety of sports medicine meetings and teaches young doctors training in sports medicine.