Brukner, Peter

Dr Peter Brukner OAM

Medical Doctor, Specialist Sports and Exercise Medicine Physician
Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a medical doctor and specialist sports and exercise medicine physician. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. He was the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne, and is the co-author of the ‘bible’ of sports medicine Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine.
Peter believes that most of what we have been told about what to eat over the last 40 years has been wrong, and as a result we have epidemics of obesity and chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes. Peter is the Founder and Chair of the SugarByHalf campaign and has authored the popular book A Fat Lot of Good.

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How Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) remission sounds impossible, but is achievable and endorsed by Diabetes Australia in their "Type 2 Diabetes Position Statement" October 2021, and The compelling and beneficial impact of introducing a low carb dietary intervention to patients with T2D, rather than surgery or prescribing more drugs.

How Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) remission sounds impossible, but is achievable and endorsed by Diabetes Australia in their "Type 2 Diabetes Position Statement" October 2021, and The compelling and beneficial impact of introducing a low carb dietary intervention to patients with T2D, rather than surgery or prescribing more drugs.

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An Update on Heart Failure in Primary Care

Tuesday 3rd February, 7pm - 9pm AEDT

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Cardiologist; Director of the Heart Failure Unit and Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Concord Hospital

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