Physiotherapist
PhD, Sports level III (Aust Institute Sport), PG Dip (Stats), BSc (Hons)
OPSMC - Olympic Park & East Melbourne Campuses

Peter Malliaras is an expert in tendinopathy management and rehabilitation. He completed his undergraduate physiotherapy degree at La Trobe University in 1996. His PhD, completed in 2006, identified novel risk factors for tendinopathy among athletes.

He has since spent five years in the UK undertaking post-doctoral research focusing on tendinopathy imaging and rehabilitation, and consulting to the general public and elite athletes with difficult and non-responsive lower limb tendinopathy. He has been consulted in the rehabilitation of elite premier league football players (e.g. Manchester United FC, Everton FC, Manchester City FC), elite rugby players (e.g. Scotland Rugby world cup 2011 players), the Royal Ballet (London) and top-level English Institute of Sport and United Kingdom track athletes, among others.

Prior to consultant work, Peter worked at the Victorian Institute of Sport, toured nationally and internationally with football, volleyball, basketball and weight lifting, and has been an official team physiotherapist at a Commonwealth Games meet.

Peter joins the Physiotherapy team at both Olympic Park and East Melbourne Campuses

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Hons)
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Level III Sports Physiotherapy Certificate
• MSc credit diagnostic ultrasound

Involvement with teams and associations:

• Victorian Institute of Sport  
• Cyprus Commonwealth games team
• Consultant premier League football and rugby (UK)
• Consultant Royal Ballet (UK)

Professional memberships:

• Registered to practice in Australia and the UK

Personal sporting experience:

• Previous competitive soccer
• Running

Greatest sporting moment:

• Commonwealth Games official team physiotherapist