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Alison Hooper

Researcher

Jul 11, 2026

7:13
Yeah.
7:13
Travel medicine, like vaccinations for athletes traveling abroad, specialized compounding, advice on nutrition and supplements.
7:21
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.
7:56
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.
8:14
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.
8:26
Anti-doping education for athletes, which I know we'll touch on later.
8:30
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.
10:44
... of doping? [laughs]

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