Tim Roberts

• Current Sports Medicine Manager (Department Lead), UFC Performance Institute, Mexico City - 2024-Current
• Former Sports Medicine Manager & Rehabilitation Physiotherapist, UFC Performance Institute, Shanghai - 2021-2024

In these roles, I have led multidisciplinary medical services for UFC and UFC Academy athletes, both on-site and remotely. Responsibilities include service delivery, development of external medical partnerships, budgeting, and staff mentoring. I have also provided fight-week medical support at both international and domestic UFC events.

Notably, I have maintained >85% academy athlete availability during my tenure as department lead in both Shanghai and Mexico City.

• Delivered physiotherapy and performance services to national and provincial athletes across a wide range of sports, including badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, handball, judo, modern pentathlon, softball, table tennis, taekwondo, and trampoline.
• Worked directly with 10 national medalists, including a gold medalist in men’s rings (gymnastics), a gold medalist in modern pentathlon, and a gold medalist in fencing.
• Provided more than 2,000 hours of direct athlete rehabilitation and performance training.

• Provided intensive rehabilitation services to professional athletes and private patients, including delivering an expert second-opinion hip and groin service under the mentorship of James Moore.
• Collaborated within a Sports Science and Medicine team comprising specialists in exercise physiology, performance nutrition, sports respiration, cardiology, psychology, sleep, osteopathy, and strength & conditioning.
• Contributed to successful rehabilitation programs for professional athletes from international cricket, the English Premier League, English Rugby Super League, and the National Football League (USA).

• Provided physiotherapy coverage to various multi-sport EIS clinics across the United Kingdom, working with athletes from alpine skiing, athletics, badminton, bobsleigh, boxing, fencing, gymnastics, netball, rowing, rugby, speed skating, and wheelchair rugby.
• Delivered physiotherapy support at the British Olympic Association’s (BOA) Intensive Rehabilitation Unit (IRU), managing high-priority Team GB Summer and Winter Olympic and Paralympic athletes.

• 2012–2013: League/Reserves Rehabilitation Coordinator and Physiotherapist
• 2014–2016: League/Reserves Senior Physiotherapist
• Member of the 2015 Premiership-winning team, contributing to the club’s first title in 32 years.

• Sports Medicine Clinic Physiotherapist
• Completed the SPORTSMED two-year new-graduate training program, gaining comprehensive experience in clinical assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation across a broad caseload.