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Alison Hooper
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Jul 11, 2026
PPP 194 – Sport and Exercise Pharmacy with Alison Hooper
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Alison HooperGUEST
Travel medicine, like vaccinations for athletes traveling abroad, specialized compounding, advice on nutrition and supplements.

Alison HooperGUEST
And mu- much of the literature, though, around sports pharmacy, so if you were to do a literature search for sports pharmacy, it's actually at the more elite or competitive level, so pharmacists playing roles in managing medicines at this level, supporting return to play protocols, ensuring chronic conditions like asthma, um, are optimally, optimally managed for peak performance, interpreting banned substance lists, and advice on therapeutic use exemptions or TUEs, and guiding decisions around medication formulations and administration routes.

Alison HooperGUEST
So for example, like whether an inhaled corticosteroid is appropriate or might trigger a positive test, how a person's medicines can affect them physiologically and therefore their response to testing or training regimens, off-label prescribing, supporting decision-making there, specimen collecting, uh, collection and testing.

Alison HooperGUEST
So these roles are particularly crucial in things like your Olympic and Paralympic context, where precision really matters, and even small errors in medicine use can have serious consequences.

Alison HooperGUEST
But again, beyond literature around, um, anti-doping, there's really a noticeable gap, so there's far less published about pharmacist roles that span the full scope of sport and exercise medicine.