Prof Jon Patricios has been in sports medicine practice since 1995. He is currently the Director of Waterfall Sports Orthopaedic Surgery in Johannesburg and Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he leads the Wits Sport and Health (WiSH) Research Group. He holds fellowships in Sport and Exercise Medicine from South Africa, the UK and Ireland.

He sees patients across all age groups and levels of activity, from paediatric to elderly, amateur to professional, who present with injuries and medical conditions related to sport and exercise. His primary clinical interests include running injuries, tendinopathies, bone stress injuries, the young athlete and the female athlete. Sport-related concussion is a particular focus, both clinically and in his research.

Prof Patricios is the founder and Director of Sports Concussion South Africa, sports concussion consultant to World Rugby, a board member of the international Concussion in Sports Group and Co-chair of the scientific committee for the International Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport. He is a co-lead author of the 2023 International Consensus Statement on Concussion in Sport. Most recently, he served on the independent concussion advisory panel for the FIFA 2022 World Cup, joined UEFA’s Head Injury Advisory Committee in 2023, and became a member of the Head, Neck and Spine Committee of the National Football League (NFL, USA).

He is also an editor of the British Journal of Sports Medicine and served two terms as President of the South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA). Prof Patricios has been team physician to school, club, provincial and international sports teams in rugby, cricket, soccer, athletics and basketball.

The author of more than 135 peer-reviewed scientific publications, his current research interests centre on sport-related concussion and the health benefits of physical activity.