
Daniel Friedman
MBBS(Hons)
BIO
SPECIALIST AREAS

Athletics, Australian Rules Football, Basketball, Cycling, Tennis

Running and endurance medicine

Physical activity for prevention and management of chronic disease.
2025
Matchday doctor
Brisbane Lions
Melbourne , Australia
2023 – 2025
Sport and Exercise Medicine Registrar
Australian Institute of Sport
Canberra , Australia
2023 – 2025
Team doctor
Basketball Australia Men’s Centre of Excellence Program
Canberra , Australia
2023-2025
Team doctor
NBA Global Academy
Canberra, Australia
2024
Event doctor
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships
Antalya , Turkey
2023, 2024
Camp doctor
Junior Wallabies
Canberra , Australia
2024
Camp doctor
Aussie Stingers Water Polo
Canberra , Australia
2024
Touring Doctor
Australian National Diving Team, World Aquatic Championships
Qatar
2023
Event doctor
World Athletics Championships
Budapest, Hungary
2023
Event doctor
World Athletics Cross Country Championships
Australia
2021-2022
Team doctor
Casey Demons Football Club
Australia
2019 – 2021
Team doctor
University Blues Football Club
Australia
2021
League doctor
Medical Spotter, AFL Review Centre (ARC)
Match day doctor
AFLW, VFL, NRL, NRL U21, Super Rugby, Super Rugby Women’s, A-League Women’s,Para Football
2019
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery with Honours
Monash University
Australia
PUBLICATIONS
“ Nutrition for health. In: Brukner P, Khan KM, editors. Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: The Medicine of Exercise”
Mason P, Friedman D.
5th ed, vol 2. Australia: McGraw-Hill Education; 2019.
“Cancer. In: Brukner P, Khan KM, editors. Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: The Medicine of Exercise”
Friedman D, Agostinho M, Campbell K, Schmitz KH. Cancer.
5th ed, vol 2. Australia: McGraw-Hill Education;2019.
“Older people. In: Brukner P, Khan KM, editors. Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: The Medicine of Exercise”
Friedman D, Agostinho M, Campbell K, Schmitz KH. Cancer.
5th ed, vol 2. Australia: McGraw-Hill Education;2019.
“Bringing reproductive, pelvic, and breast health to light: insights from the Health of Elite Retired Australian female athletes survey (HER-Aus)”
Friedman DJ, Hughes D, Thornton JS, et al.
“ACTIVE: a technical package for increasing physical activity.”
World Health Organization; 2018.
“ Preventing overdiagnosis and the harms of too much sport and exercise medicine. Br J Sports Med. 2019.”
Friedman DJ, Khan KM.
“Prescribing physical activity: the written prescription. In: Brukner P, Khan KM, editors. Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: The Medicine of Exercise.”
Friedman D.
5th ed, vol 2. Australia: McGraw-Hill Education;2019.
“ Prescribing physical activity: motivational interviewing. In: Brukner P, Khan KM, editors. Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: The Medicine of Exercise.”
Friedman D, Vishnubala D.
5th ed, vol 2. Australia: McGraw-Hill Education; 2019.
“Benefits and risks of physical activity. In: Brukner P, Khan KM, editors. Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine .The Medicine of Exercise”
Friedman D.
5th ed, vol 2. Australia: McGraw-Hill Education; 2019.
“Prescribing physical activity: the clinical assessment. In: Brukner P, Khan KM, editors. Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: The Medicine of Exercise.”
Friedman D.
5th ed, vol 2. Australia: McGraw-Hill Education;2019.
“Physiotherapist-led treatment for young to middle-aged active adults with hip-related pain: consensus recommendations from the International Hip-related Pain Research Network, Zurich 2018. Br J Sports Med. 2019”
Kemp et al.
“Physical inactivity: a global public health problem. In: Brukner P, Khan KM, editors. Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine: The Medicine of Exercise. ”
Friedman D.
5th ed, vol 2. Australia: McGraw-Hill Education;
2019.
“ Batting against mental health in elite cricket. Br J Sports Med. 2021.”
Mahmood HJS, Friedman DJ.
“Promoting physical activity through primary health care: a toolkit.”
Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021
“Global Health Risk Factors: Physical Inactivity. In: Haring R, Kickbusch I, Ganten D, Moeti M, editors. Handbook of Global Health. Cham: Springer; 2021.”
Bull F, Guthold R, Friedman DJ, Katzmarzyk P.
“Peeling off musculoskeletal labels: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but diagnostic labels can hamstring me forever. Br J Sports Med. 2021.”
Friedman DJ, Khan KM, Tulloh L.
“Brukner & Khan's Clinical Sports Medicine.”
Fried K, Friedman D. Managing pain. In: Brukner P, Khan KM, editors .
6th ed, vol 1. Australia: McGraw-Hill Education; 2024.
“Global status report on physical activity 2022.”
World Health Organization, 2022.
"The effects of eating frequency on changes in body composition and cardiometabolic health in adults: a systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized trials.”
Blazey P, Habibi A, Hassen N, Friedman D, Khan K, Ardern C.
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2023.
“Exercise across the lifespan: Exercise and obesity.Exercise to prevent and manage chronic disease across the lifespan”
Friedman DJ, Brukner P, In: Apostolopoulos V, Feehan J,
Tripodi N, editors
Elsevier