FRACTURE HEALING
An interview with Professor David Marsh MBBCh, MD, FRCS
After studying medical sciences at Cambridge University David Marsh was awarded his MB BCh in 1975 and FRCS in 1980.
In 1990 he was awarded his MD from the University of Cambridge. After working as Wellcome Research Fellow at the Physiological Laboratory at the University of Cambridge he became Lecturer in Orthopaedics at the University of Manchester.
He spent several years as Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics at Queens University in Belfast before moving to the UCL Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science (IOMS) in 2005, where he held the position of Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics until his retirement in March 2012.
Current posts held
- Emeritus Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics at UCL
The interview
Professor Marsh spoke to us about his life's work in orthopaedics, outlining his distinguished career in part one and focusing in particular on his fracture healing work in part two.
If you you cannot see the Soundcloud player above then please use these direct links:
- Professor David Marsh - Career and fracture healing (mp3, 7.7mb)
- Professor David Marsh - Problems with bone union (mp3, 29.9mb)
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- Evidence for anti-osteoporosis therapy in acute fracture situation - Recommendations of a multidisciplinary workshop of the International Society for Fracture Repair
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