Larissa Trease

Dr Lari Trease is a Canberra based, Specialist Sport and Exercise Physician with more than 15 years’ experience in elite sport. Lari has been a team Doctor for Australian Summer (2016) and Winter (2014) Olympic, Paralympic (2008) and Youth Olympic (2012) Teams. She has had many roles within the Australian High Performance Sporting system, including providing leadership, medical care, and policy advice across three institutes of sport, and five National sporting organisations. She currently consults part-time at the Australian Institute of Sport, is the Team Doctor for the Australian Cross-Country Ski Team and a member of the World Rowing Sports Medicine Commission.

Larissa has a career-long interest in optimising medical care for elite athletes through research. She is a PhD Candidate at La Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre (LASEM), La Trobe University, where her research focuses on predicting the recovery of elite athletes from low back pain. She is a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) PhD scholarship recipient.  Lari’s research aims to assist clinicians, coaches and athletes in elite sport to better understand the recovery trajectory and important recovery factors in athletes with LBP.