Dr. Peter Baquie, a practicing sports physician at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne, Australia, has been appointed Medical Director of the Australian Olympic Team for the Beijing Games in 2008. Prior to specialising in sports medicine, he worked in a rural general practice for 10 years. His interests are in hockey medicine, adolescent and paediatric sports medicine, dance medicine and team medical provision.

  Dr. Baquie has been involved with the Australian men's hockey team, the Kookaburras, for seven years which included their gold medal winning performance in Athens in 2004.