News
IOMS Director Professor Allen Goodship retires
Professor Allen Goodship has retired after 12 years as Institute Director. All IOMS members gathered to celebrate his retirement on Monday 9th January 2012.
Professor Gordon Blunn has been appointed as the new Director of the Institute.
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Monday 19th March 2012, the second RNOH Vitamin D Conference
The conference will focus on the musculoskeletal aspects of Vitamin D deficiency in children.
RNOH faculty includes
Professor David Marsh (Director of Centre for Academic Clinical Orthopaedics, IOMS).
Topics
• Current Vitamin D prevention and treatment recommendations: Which children should have Vitamin D supplements, when and how should blood levels be checked?
• Current research including: Osgood-Schlatter, Stress Fracture, Scoliosis, Perthes Disease, SUFE, Mortality, Rickets, child protection and Cerebral Palsy.
Audience
Doctors including orthopaedic surgeons, paediatricians, sports physicians, GPs
physiotherpapists, osteopaths, occupational Ttherapists, nurses, pharmacists, scientists
RNOH flyer (pdf, 38.3kb)
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External News: Stryker Corp fined $15m
Stryker Corp has been fined $15million for misbranding and selling a bone growth mixture (a combination of OP-1 products and Calstrux) which had never been clinically studied and was not approved by the FDA.
Read the full story (bloomberg.com)
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Monday 23rd January 2012, lecture by Professor Eyal Lederman
Topic: Neuromuscular changes following musculoskeletal injuries
Professor Lederman is an Osteopath and will be speaking about his work on neuromuscular changes following musculoskeletal injuries. He is an excellent speaker and has some very interesting ideas which he will show how he has applied in clinical practice. This talk will be given as part of the MSc in Musculoskeletal Science course, but is too good an opportunity to restrict to only the MSc students so please come along!
The talk will take place at the IOMS Student Centre, Stanmore on Monday the 23rd January, from 14:00 - 16:00.
The Student Centre is at the rear of building number six on the second map at the IOMS contact page.
If you wish to attend, please contact Ms Michele Pannaman, Divisional Teaching Administrator on 020 8909 5494 or email m.pannaman[at]ucl.ac.uk
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20th October 2011, UCL Lunch Hour Lecture by Professor Allen Goodship
Topic: Osteoporosis: Bouncing babies to crumbling wrinklies - The need to own our bones
The skeleton is key to our ability to undertake everyday movements and activities related to well-being and high quality independent living. The general perception of bone is that of a museum specimen – a dry inert structure. This is far from correct; our skeleton is a dynamic and responsive organ. The material properties and structural architecture are conditioned by both genetics and our changing functional demands throughout life. The devastating degenerative conditions such as osteoporosis (in both women and men) and associated fragility fractures represent a time bomb for society and healthcare requirements in our ageing population. Through an understanding of the pathobiology of bone and the skeleton we can develop strategies to mitigate the risk of these conditions and thus prolong an active and independent life in old age.
This lecture marks World Osteoporosis Day on 20 Oct.
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September 2011, The Shimomura Research Prize (SIROT Award)
This Prize has been awarded to IOMS and the Royal Veterinary College for the Best Innovative Research Translatable To Orthopaedic Clinical Care.
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15th July 2011, iBSc student presentations and publications 2002-2011
Dr Melanie Coathup, who organises the research project
module on the iBSc course in Orthopaedic Science, has recently collated
some statistics on how well the student projects do in terms of
publication and conference presentations.
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March 2011 - MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship
Ms Chimutengwende-Gordon Mukai has been awarded with a MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship by the MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship panel, including Professor Paul Stewart, and Peter Dukes, Head of MRC Research Career Awardsin March 2011.
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