Paolo Emilio Adami, MD, PhD, Sports and Exercise Medicine Specialist, FESC, FACSM, Head of Medical Operations, Health and Science Dept. World Athletics, Monaco.
Paolo Emilio Adami is a Sports and Exercise Medicine physician, with a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology. He is Head of Medical Operations of the Health and Science Department at World Athletics, where he oversees medical operations at World Athletics Series events and is directly involved in research projects spanning sports medicine and sports science. His scientific work currently focuses on heat stress and thermoregulation in elite athletics; emergency medical care standards for endurance events; prevention of sudden cardiac death, and pre-participation cardiovascular assessment of athletes.
He has held research and clinical roles with the Sports Cardiology Department of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), Al Attar Sports Medicine Clinic in Doha, Qatar, and as a visiting researcher at the New England Arrhythmia Center, Tufts Medical Center (Boston), supported by the 2016 ACSM Oded Bar-Or International Scholar Award.
