Dr Michelle Jeffrey
Consultant in Sport, Exercise & Musculoskeletal Medicine
Introduction
Dr Michelle Jeffrey is a Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine with twenty-five years’ experience. She has extensive experience working with amateur and elite athletes and offers specialist diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal injuries and health issues related to sport. She has a particular interest in female athlete health.
QUALIFICATIONS
- FFSEM(UK)
- DipSEM
- PgC Medical Ultrasound
- MRCGP
- DRCOG
- DFFP
- BSc (Physiology and Sports Science)
Specialist Interests
- MSK Injuries
- Injury Rehab
- Health and Athletic Performance
- Female Athlete Health
Sporting Interests
- Cycling
- Pilates
- Swimming
Michelle has expertise in musculoskeletal injuries, injury rehabilitation and health issues related to sport, with a particular interest in female athlete health.
Michelle qualified as a doctor in 1996 and initially trained as a GP before going on to become one of the first doctors in Scotland to train as a specialist in Sport and Exercise Medicine. She has extensive experience in team, event and expedition medicine.
For the past fifteen years, she has worked as a Sport and Exercise Medicine doctor at the Sportscotland Institute of Sport (SIS), providing athlete screening, sports medicine expertise and sports injury assessment across a wide range of sports. She currently leads the SEM team at SIS.
Previously, she worked for eight years at the MOD’s Regional Rehabilitation Unit in Edinburgh and as a Consultant at Headley Court, the UK Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre.
- Team Scotland Doctor at Commonwealth Games (Glasgow 2014, Gold Coast 2018,
Birmingham 2022 and Glasgow 2026) - Team GB Doctor at Olympic Games ( Tokyo, 2021) and at European Youth W inter
- Olympic Festival (Sarajevo, 2019)
- Chief Medical Officer. for ParalympicGB at W inter Paralympic Games (Milan-Cortina 2026)
- London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic SEM event doctor
Sport, Exercise & Musculoskeletal Medicine
Michelle’s Locations
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Sports Clinic, Pleasance Sports Complex, 46 Pleasance, Edinburgh. EH8 9TJ
Conveniently located within the Pleasance Sports Complex, our Edinburgh clinic offers appointments with Sport & Exercise Medicine Consultants with easy access to imaging when needed. Please note that we can only see patients aged 18 years and over at our Edinburgh clinic.
Opening Times
Opening Times- Alternating Mondays: 8:30am – 12:30m / closed
- Tuesday – Thursday: Closed
- Friday: 1:30pm – 5pm
- Weekends & Bank Holidays: Closed
Accessibility
AccessibilityWheelchair-accessible seating, entrance, car park and toilet are all available at this location.
