Four NDORMS Professors - Andrew Carr, David Murray, Nigel Arden, and Cyrus Cooper - have papers featured in the most recent bibliometric study on the hundred most-cited publications in orthopaedic knee research, published in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.
Dr Daniel Prieto-Alhambra, Senior Clinical Research Fellow at NDORMS has been elected co-chair of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) Academic Council.
The Knee Injury Cohort at the Kennedy (KICK) study has completed a significant milestone this week with the recruitment of all required participants \u2013 150 individuals aged between 18 and 50 with recent knee injuries.
PROVE, our clinical trial on Physiotherapy Rehabilitation for Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture is currently recruiting participants from 13 centres across England, with an additional five centres being set up.
Now a growing department with more than 400 people spread across three main sites, NDORMS owes its existence to Gathorne R. Girdlestone who became the first Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, in 1937. However, Professor Girdlestone\u2019s history at Oxford had begun much earlier.
The COOL project, a multi-country partnership programme between NDORMS and the College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA), has been extended until 2016.
Professor Graham Russell, Emeritus Professor of Musculoskeletal Pharmacology at NDORMS, has received the prestigious Gideon A. Rodan Excellence in Mentorship Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR).
The third International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium - New Approaches to Tendon Therapeutics - is being held in St Hilda's College, Oxford, on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 September. The event brings together an unprecedented mix of excellent basic and translational science and the finest clinical expertise.
The report for the COSECSA Oxford Orthopaedic Link (COOL) Key Informant Method (KIM) study - an epidemiology study on prevalence of childhood disability in Malawi - has been published this week.
Two of Britain\u2019s leading biomedical researchers, Professor Sir Ravinder Maini and Professor Sir Marc Feldmann, have been awarded the 2014 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Professor Chris Lavy has been nominated as a Hospital Hero by cyclist who he operated on. The grateful patient, Professor Lee Sweetlove, has raised money for a charity Professor Lavy is involved in by cycling through the Dolomites as well as nominating him for the award.
Behavioural therapy and exercise rehabilitation may be as effective as surgery in treating patients with Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP), a study published in the Journal 'Spine' last week suggests.
Professor Udo Oppermann, Director of Laboratory Sciences at NDORMS, is the Scientific Director for Oxford in a new alliance between the University of Oxford and Bayer Healthcare. This strategic research alliance in the area of gynaecological therapies is for an initial period of two years, but is open for extension to up to five years.
In late May the COOL (COSECSA Oxford Orthopaedic Link) programme ran an additional orthopaedic training course on the subject of paediatric orthopaedic surgery, hosted by CURE Ethiopia Children's Hospital and Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The course report (1.2MB PDF) is now available.
Before you get a good answer, sometimes you need to ask the right question. The Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) for Hip and Knee Replacement for Osteoarthritis (OA) reached the end of its process in March this year, producing a list of ten priority areas for further research funding. These are questions that the combined group of healthcare professionals and patients / carers have concluded need addressing first to help continued progress in treating this area of patient health.
Dr Catherine Swales has been appointed as Associate Director of Clinical Studies within the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences.
Dr Stephanie Dakin, an Arthritis Research UK Fellow at NDORMS, has been interviewed by the BBC about her work exploring the treatment of tendon injuries in humans, which builds on her significant experience working with horses.
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