Annual Meeting Faculty Details

Malachy P Mchugh, PhD

Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma
New York, NY UNITED STATES

Dr McHugh is the Director of Research at the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma (NISMAT) at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Malachy received his PhD in Exercise Physiology in 1999 from the University of Wales, Bangor. Dr McHugh leads a multidisciplinary research team with research encompassing areas such as randomized clinical trials in orthopaedic sports medicine, injury epidemiology, and basic and applied research in nutrition, physiology and biomechanics. Dr McHugh is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, an associate Member of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, and a member of the Orthopaedic Research Society. His research interests include sports recovery, exercise-induced muscle damage, musculoskeletal flexibility, injury epidemiology and rehabilitation. He has more than 150 publications in the sports medicine and exercise science literature. Dr McHugh is the Sports Performance Consultant for the National Hockey League and has consulted with professional sports teams and elite athletes across a wide spectrum of sports. He is a visiting professor at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom and an adjunct professor at New York University. Dr McHugh is on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy and served on the editorial board of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports for 20 years.