About ASEMS
Association of Multidisciplinary Sport & Exercise Medicine Students
Sport and exercise medicine only works as a team. An athlete's recovery runs through a doctor, a physiotherapist, an exercise physiologist, a podiatrist, a dietitian and a psychologist, and the outcome depends less on any one of them than on how well they work together.
Student life is the opposite. Everyone is siloed inside their own degree, on their own campus, learning their own scope in isolation. Most of us graduate having never sat in a room with the disciplines we will spend an entire career depending on.
ASEMS exists to close that gap early. We bring students from every sport and exercise discipline together while they are still students, so they learn what everyone else actually does, where the roles overlap, and how to talk to each other before the stakes are real.
Build the connections now. You will be leaning on them for the next forty years.
The committee
PresidentVictor KomaiyaVictor is a fourth-year Curtin MBBS/BMedSci student who spent his junior years playing high-level basketball across Australia. These days he's still lacing up on the other side of the ball as a sports trainer. In the gym and on the field, Victor is slowly building himself into a "hybrid athlete". His interest in sports med comes from wanting to keep athletes like himself doing what they love and do best, for longer.
VP InternalPatrick LeePatrick is a fourth-year Rural Clinical School student and multi-sport athlete who is passionate about all sports. Currently racing in long course triathlon and ultra marathons, he has previously competed in slalom waterskiing for QLD and archery. His passion for sports medicine comes from trying to get the best out of himself at every discipline he has tried.
VP ExternalSamantha LoureySammy is a fourth-year Curtin medical student and a sprint kayaker who's raced for Australia at U23 Worlds. She found the sport through surf life saving at Trigg and reckons the people are the best part of it.
MDT LeadRoss PaolielloRoss is a fourth-year Curtin medical student and competitive marathon runner with a broad love for sport, from AFL and golf to a more recent passion for alpinism. His interest in sports medicine stems from a love of the outdoors and a fascination with endurance physiology, particularly how the medicine and science behind elite athletes continue to push performance further and faster than ever before - pursuit of excellence drives both his training and his studies.
SecretaryHarrison McnabHarrison is a second-year physiotherapy student and endurance athlete with a focus on running. He played soccer throughout his youth, captaining the WA Country state squad at international tournaments, before moving into triathlon and long-distance running. That background sparked a lasting interest in how the human body works, and he's continuing to build on it so he can help people at every stage of life get healthier and fitter.
TreasurerTino PfumojenaTino is a fourth-year Curtin law student and Finance graduate with a lifelong love for basketball, having previously competed at WABL level and received a half-scholarship for the sport during high school. Currently, he stays active through the gym and recreational sports, including soccer, volleyball and just about anything else that keeps him moving. He is heavily involved in sport sessions with students through his work in alternative education and hopes to combine his law and commerce background with his growing interest in the commercial side of sport.
Officers, discipline reps and the people who advise us, and how it all fits together.
Free for the rest of the year.
Two minutes. Students, high schoolers and people already working in the field are all welcome.