Head of Sports Medicine at Southend United Football Club

Sports and exercise medicine physician specialist, London

Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (of Ireland)

Member of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, UK

Member of the American College of Sports Medicine

Member of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine

Member of the British Medical Ultrasound Society

Member of the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine

Dr Annan is a fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (of Ireland)  He is a member of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, UK;  a member of the American College of Sports Medicine; and a member of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. He is also a  member of the British Medical Ultrasound Society and the British Association of Sports and Exercise Medicine.

He is also a lead practitioner in Essex and is very keen to promote exercise and medicine in primary care especially the role of sports and exercise medicine in managing and treating chronic physical and mental illnesses in the community and primary medical care. His main interest in primary care is therefore to promote exercise in primary care.

Dr Annan is a fully qualified sport and exercise medicine physician specialist in the UK. He has had years of experience in emergency medicine, musculoskeletal and orthopaedic medicine and treating sports injuries since 1992 and at an elite level since 1999.

Dr Annan is a former football player playing soccer during his teenage years, and understands the frustrations of injuries in sports. He has worked with elite athletes in the London Marathon, England rugby league, UK Sports Taekwondo, Field and Ice hockey, International FIFA football, European ice hockey competitions, Commonwealth Games, the British army headquarters rehabilitation centre in Catterick, North Yorkshire and is currently the head of sports medicine and the team physician specialist to Southend United football team.