Doug Richards MD

Associate Professor
Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
University of Toronto

Dr. Doug Richards is a retired clinical sport medicine physician and biomechanist and is now teaching full-time at the University of Toronto. Educated in medicine at U of T (Class of 7T9), he worked at the University of Toronto’s David L. MacIntosh Sport Medicine Clinic from 1984 - 2021, and was its medical director from 1989 - 2020. He has been a professor in U of T’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto since 1991. Over his clinical career, Dr. Richards organized and provided medical services at a variety of national and international sporting events and major games, and he was a team physician for U of T’s Varsity Blues intercollegiate teams from 1984-2021, for Canada’s women's national basketball team from 1987-2021, for our national beach volleyball teams from 1997-2014, and the Toronto Raptors from 1995-2004. Dr. Richards teaches four undergraduate courses in sport medicine, biomechanics and personal health, and two graduate courses in clinical assessment and exercise prescription. He was a semi-finalist in the TVO Best Lecturer contest in 2008, and a finalist in the same contest in 2009. His research interests have focused on concussion in sports and the biomechanics of injury. He is an avid cyclist who rides 8-10,000 km a year.