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CPC announces Chief Medical Officer and Chief Therapist for Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games

06 September 2007

OTTAWA (Sept. 6) – Barrie, Ontario residents Richard Goudie and Nancy Quinn have been appointed Chief Medical Officer and Chief Therapist for the Canadian team at the Beijing Summer Paralympic Games, the Canadian Paralympic Committee announced Thursday on the one-year countdown to next year’s premiere sporting event for athletes with a physical disability.



Dr. Goudie will manage and supervise a multi-disciplinary health care team and oversee the health care services that will be provided to the entire Canadian team.

“It’s an honour to be chosen to work at such an important multi-sport Games,” said Goudie, who works at the Active Health Sports Medicine Centre in Barrie. “I want to ensure that the best group of individuals gets selected for the medical team, and that they will remember it as a great event they were proud to be part of. My goal is for the medical team to provide Canada’s Paralympic athletes with the best medical service that they have ever had.”

A sport medicine expert with special training in tropical medicine, Dr. Goudie was part of Canada’s medical team at the Parapanamerican Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this August. He has also been part of the country’s medical team at the Commonwealth Games, Pan American Games, World University Games, Canada Summer Games and Jeux de la Francophonie.

Throughout his 15-year career, he has worked as a physician at the ICU World Road Cycling Championships, Ironman Triathlon Canada, London City marathon and the Ontario College Athletic Association provincial volleyball championships, along with being the team doctor for the University of Western Ontario’s varsity hockey team.

Quinn, a registered physiotherapist, will work alongside Dr. Goudie. The owner of the multi-disciplinary clinic Quinn Rehab Services since 1994, she has over 10 years of Paralympic Games experience, beginning with the 1996 Games in Atlanta and including the Games in Sydney in 2000, in Salt Lake City in 2002 and Turin in 2006. She has also worked with the Para-Alpine team at World Cups in Europe and at able-bodied world championships for rowing, powerlifting, triathlon and basketball.

“I am delighted to be heading to Beijing with our Canadian team next summer,” said Quinn. “With a medical team selected from some of the very best from across this country, we will provide unsurpassed care to our athletes as they strive for excellence in their sporting performances.”

The remainder of the Canadian medical team for the Beijing Paralympic Games will be chosen at the end of September.

The Beijing Paralympic Summer Games run from September 6-17, 2008 in China.

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