About Nick Peirce
Nick Peirce was a physician.
Nicholas Sheridan Peirce is an English consultant physician specialising in sports and exercise medicine.
Peirce holds the position of chief medical officer (CMO) for the England and Wales Cricket Board. Additionally, he serves as an Honorary Professor of clinical sports medicine at Loughborough University and is a former columnist for the Guardian newspaper.
Career He originally trained in family medicine but shifted his focus to sport and exercise medicine in 1995 and completed an MSc in sports medicine. In 2001, he began a two-year Lectureship at the University of Nottingham and a sports medicine fellowship at the Australian Institute of Sport.
During the 2020 pandemic, he worked as a special advisor in sports medicine with Public Health England and contributed to the development of UK guidelines for the safe return of sport. The 2022 Platinum Jubilee Honours list acknowledged his sports contributions, making him a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE).
His Ask Dr Nick Column in The Guardian ran from 2008 to 2009 and covered topics ranging from caffeine's impact on performance to the prevalence of eye surgery in sports.
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