Dr Adam Castricum

Adam is passionate about sport and exercise and takes great satisfaction out of helping all members of the community across all stages of life achieve their goals in a safe, enjoyable and healthy fashion whether they are elite athletes or simply inactive patients wishing to get active and lead a healthier, more rewarding life.

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Adam and his young family moved across the ditch in 2021 to join the Axis team in Queenstown. Before that he spent twenty years training and setting up a specialist practice in Melbourne, at the world renowned tertiary Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre, where he was Head of the Medical Department for 10 years. He continues to provide remote telehealth and occasional face to face in clinic services to his Australian patient base.

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Adam became a Fellow with the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) in 2008 after completing 6 years of training in Melbourne and Sydney. Soon after, he was appointed Chief Medical Officer for Athletics Australia and headed up the medical team for the successful Australian Track and Field team at both the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympic Games. From 2014 - 2017 he worked with the excellent medical and conditioning team at Hawthorn Football Club, the highlight being the 2014 and 2015 Premierships. 
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In 2015, Adam started his 6 year term on the ACSEP Board as Vice President. In 2016, he was elected President of ACSEP holding this post for 3 years. As President, Adam also sat on the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges (CPMC). He strongly advocated for equality and diversity, improving indigenous, regional and remote health outcomes, as well as doctors' mental health and making specialist Sport and Exercise Medical care accessible to all members of the community. Adam was an inaugural member of the Health Champions of Change Coalition. Adam is a mentor on the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association mentorship program and is very active in training and educating the next generation of Sport and Exercise Physicians and our allied health community. He is on the Aotearoa NZ OA Summit Committee and member of the RACGP review committee of the non-surgical management of hip and knee osteoarthritis

Adam’s professional areas of interest include athletics, all codes of football, triathlon, alpine skiing, exercise prescription & management of lower limb injuries, including osteoarthritis and stress fractures, adolescent injuries, fatigue in athletes & exercise induced asthma, on which he completed his Masters Research in 2008. Adam also brings ultrasound-guided interventions to Queenstown and hopes that the region can become a blue zone health hub for all.

Adam enjoys trail running, skiing, mountain biking, tennis, hiking, kayaking and exploring everything Aotearoa has to offer with his family.

Exercise in nature really is the best medicine!

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