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Dr Tim Butson

Concussion and Rehabilitation Physician

Headshot of a smiling concussion doctor with curly dark hair, round glasses, wearing a dark blazer over a white shirt.

Dr. Tim Butson is a Rehabilitation Physician with a sub-specialty fellowship in Adult Neurology (Concussion) from the University of Toronto.

In 2026 he completed his clinical and research fellowship at the Canadian Concussion Centre with a focus on the management of acute and persistent concussion presentations in both sport and non-sport related injuries.

Dr Butson is a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians) and graduated from medical school from James Cook University in 2013. His academic background also includes a Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Medicine from the University of Otago and a Master of Sports Medicine from the University of Melbourne.

He leads the concussion clinics at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital and Beach Brain. His current research centres on post-traumatic headaches, dizziness, cognitive changes of concussion as well as chronic traumatic encephalopathy.