WEBINAR—Careers in Anti-doping Research

October 8, 2024
11 a.m. EDT

This panel discussion, hosted in collaboration with the Partnership for Clean Competition, will provide physiologists with perspectives from leaders in anti-doping science on career opportunities in the anti-doping industry. Topics will include a review of the professional landscape, experiences unique to performance enhancing drug research and comparing research at regulatory organizations versus academia. Panelists will also discuss professional and personal considerations and key attributes necessary for early-career and established scientists to build a career in the anti-doping industry. The Partnership for Clean Competition is a leading anti-doping research collaborative with the mission to protect the integrity of sport and public health by engaging and supporting the world’s top scientists and innovators in anti-doping research.

Speakers

Laura Lewis, PhD
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency - Director of Science

Laura Lewis, PhD, director of science at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, examining in the role of hemoglobin mass on cycling performance for her sports-based doctoral program. After receiving her PhD, she continued to work as an applied sports scientist with Australia’s aspiring Olympians from a range of sports including water polo, soccer and track and field. Lewis combines her research interests of altitude and anti-doping in 2014 during a challenging project at the Tour of Qinghai Lake in northern China. She worked as a research fellow at the Australian Institute of Sport and Australian Catholic University and was awarded a Partnership for Clean Competition grant in 2015 to study the combined effects of altitude and iron supplementation on the Athlete Biological Passport.

Geoff Miller, PhD
Assistant Laboratory Director - Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory

Geoff Miller, PhD, is director of the Athlete Passport Management Unit at the Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL) in Salt Lake City. He completed undergraduate training in biochemistry at Wartburg College in Iowa and earned a PhD in pharmaceutics and pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of Utah. Miller oversees routine sample analysis for biologics and the research department. Along with SMRTL, he works with the Partnership for Clean Competition on their performance hematology working group and with the World Anti-Doping Agency on their erythropoietin expert group and plasma volume working group.

Jacob Bejder, PhD
Assistant Professor - University of Copenhagen

Jacob Bejder, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise, and Sports at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He earned a bachelor's degree in sport and health, followed by a master's in human physiology. He then pursued a PhD at the University of Copenhagen, specializing in the detection and physiological effects of blood volume manipulation. Bejder’s research focuses on understanding individual physiological responses to doping agents and methods, discovering biomarkers and developing novel and highly specific detection strategies. He investigates confounding factors that impact these physiological responses, such as hydration status, exercise and environmental exposures such as altitude.

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