FAI Medico-physiological Commission (CIMP)

The 2023 Annual Symposium of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) took place last week in Lausanne, Switzerland. It gathered more than 1,000 participants (around 850 in person and 150 virtually) from the global anti-doping community, under this year’s theme: ’United Toward a World of Doping-Free Sport’. Among them were FAI representatives Geoffrey McCarthy MD and Kamila Vokoun Hajkova.

Register now for the webinar organised by the FAI Medico-Physiological Commission (CIMP) "Meet the inventors! Human Factors Accident Classification System - how to understand the multi-layered causes, and prevent accidents".

The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) List of Prohibited Substances and Methods has been updated. The updated list came into force on 1 January 2023.

The final webinar in the 2022 FAI Fly Clean series will take place on Wednesday 14 December at 14:00 UTC and will cover the topic of Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE).

With the objective to share detailed information on TUE procedure, the FAI Secretariat aims to help FAI members, FAI athletes and their entourage to navigate the systems in place for therapeutic use exemption for substances on the WADA prohibited list.

The FAI Fly Clean webinar series continues on 16 November with the second edition giving an insight into the risks of nutritional supplements and shedding light onto the WADA’s Prohibited Substance List. 

The FAI Fly Clean webinar series begins on Wednesday 19 October 2022 with an ‘Introduction to Fly Clean’. Hosted by Kamila Vokoun Hajkova, FAI’s dedicated Anti-Doping Manager, the webinar will outline the importance of fair play in air sports, and the role of the FAI anti-doping programme with regards to how testing affects athletes’ routines and helps to embed positive values within their sport.

On 18 September 2022, delegates and guests of the FAI Medico-Physiological Commission (CIMP) gathered at the Aéro-Club de France in Paris for a special meeting: not only the first in-person meeting since 2019, but also an occasion to reflect upon and celebrate one hundred years of service to aviation, as CIMP was founded in 1922.