Dr Mahnaz Alsharif
Sport & Exercise Medicine and MSK Physician
Dr Mahnaz Alsharif is a GP and experienced sports physician at Sulis Hospital Bath. She is a member of the faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (MFSEM) UK and Ireland.
Mahnaz has over 17 years experience in treating people with acute and chronic sports and work-related musculoskeletal injuries. She has a special interest in running and football injuries. In her clinical work, she uses dynamic ultrasound to enhance her clinical diagnosis, assess and monitor injuries and allow for accurately guided injections.
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Additional information about Dr Mahnaz Alsharif
Mahnaz will see and treat a range of sport and musculoskeletal injuries (acute and chronic) such as knee injuries, osteoarthritis, back pain, tendinopathies and bone stress injuries. She tailors treatments to each patient and the management of injuries through to return to full fitness.
She also has a special interest in health screening and health optimisation with particular reference to epigenetics and nutrigenomics to limit the effects of ageing, slowing down and potential reversal of the body’s epigenetic clock and biological age using diet and lifestyle.
Additional information about Dr Mahnaz Alsharif
Dr Mahnaz Alsharif qualified from the University of Bristol as a medical doctor (MBChB) in 1996. After her medical training she began her career as a GP, where her interest in musculoskeletal disorders and sport injuries led her to work in A&E and specialise further in Sports and Exercise Medicine (MSc) at the University of Bath.
She has been the Bath City Football Club Doctor since 2002 and has served as a team doctor and sports physician for various associations and teams. Her work has involved a wide range of input for elite athletes and professional performers with a specific focus on football, running, performance enhancement, illness and injury prevention.
Alongside Sports medicine and general practice, Mahnaz has a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Bath with research in molecular genetics and mechanisms involved in the control of DNA damage and repair. During her post-doctoral research, she supervised MSc and PhD students and worked as a molecular biologist.
The qualities Mahnaz has developed as an academic have deeply strengthened her commitments as a medical doctor and have provided a thorough grounding in the sciences underpinning Sport and Exercise Medicine. Her postgraduate research and post-doctoral work have refined her decision making, problem solving and analytical skills.
She is the author of several publications and poster presentations at national and international conferences.