Sports Medicine Association Singapore (SMAS) is the registered society for Sports Medicine and Sports Science professionals in Singapore. Our members represent and embody the multi-disciplinary spirit that is key to the specialty. Our integrated community includes doctors, physiotherapists, podiatrists, sports nutritionists and dieticians, exercise physiologists, sports scientists and sports psychologists. We are a non-profit organisation committed to the promotion of quality Sports Medicine and Sports Science education to the sporting community in Singapore and beyond.

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May 2026

Dr Fabian Lim PhD, FACSM, SFHEA Programme Director, Graduate Diploma in Sports Medicine, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Visiting Distinguished Professor, College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam Exploring Current Evidence in Exertional Heat Stress and Injury Environmental heat affects human physiology and functions in the forms of discomfort, limitations in work performance, and increased risks of heat injury. The aetiology underlying these effects of heat are not the same and not necessarily connected. However, the strategies to mitigate such risks are often broad and non-specific, targeted primarily at controlling the rise in