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Mike Farrar is an independent management consultant and former Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation. He joined the organisation in May 2011.

Mike was chief executive of the North West England SHA from May 2006 to April 2011. He was previously chief executive of West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authorities, chief executive of Tees Valley Health Authority and head of primary care at the Department of Health.

Mike was also a board member of Sport England, and in August 2009 was appointed as National Tsar for Sport and Health. Mike was also awarded the CBE in 2005 for services to the NHS and is an honorary fellow of the University of Central Lancashire.

Professor Mike Loosemore is Lead Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health. He treats the general public with musculoskeletal and sports injuries and is also working to promote exercise as a preventative intervention and treatment in many medical conditions.

Professor Loosemore is a Lead Sports Physician for the English Institute of Sport, based at ISEH where he treats elite athletes from a wide range of sports; he is currently the Chief Medical Officer for GB Boxing and GB Snow sports.

He has travelled extensively with national squads, accompanying teams to 4 Olympic and 5 Commonwealth Games, World and European Championships. He was the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for the England Commonwealth Games team in New Delhi 2010 and reprised the role for Glasgow 2014. He was CMO for the GB team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Professor Loosemore is active in various fields of sport and exercise medicine research and has published work on various aspects of Sports and Exercise Medicine.

In 2011 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in science for ‘outstanding contribution to sport and exercise medicine’. In 2014 he received the Sir Robert Atkins award for ‘an outstanding contribution to sports medicine’.

He was awarded an MBE for services to Sport and Exercise Medicine in 2018.