Professor Mark Gillett qualified in 1992 from the University of London and completed higher specialist training in Emergency Medicine in the West Midlands in 2003. With an MSc in Sports Medicine from the University of Nottingham and a founding fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine UK, Mark was appointed as the medical advisor to the Premier League in November 2018, after a decade of experience as a team physician and performance director in that league.

 From 2003-2008, Mark worked for the English Institute of Sport as a sports physician and in 2008 became the first team doctor at Chelsea FC, before moving to West Bromwich Albion FC as Director of Performance in 2010 and then to Nottingham Forest in 2018.

Mark has more than 20 years’ experience working in elite sports medicine with Olympic athletes and in 2012, was a member of Team GB at the London Olympics as Chief Medical Officer to the men’s and women’s basketball squads. Mark has previously held the positions of chairman of the Premier League Doctors Group and the training program Director for Sports and Exercise Medicine in the West Midlands from 2009 – 2016 and Deputy Chair of the national training committee from 2014-2016.