Andy Carr is the Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford. Educated at Bradford Grammar School and University of Bristol He trained as a surgeon in Sheffield, Oxford, Seattle and Melbourne and undertook research fellowships at the Weatherall Institute of molecular medicine in Oxford and the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. He has published over 400 peer reviewed articles in journals including the Lancet, Nature Biotechnology, Science Translational Medicine, Science Robotics, Cell Stem Cell and the BMJ and is one of the most highly cited orthopaedic academics globally with an h-index of 73. He is head of the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) Research Fields: Rheumatology, Orthopedics Honors: Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedics Director of the Musculoskeletal BRC Theme Director of the Botnar Research Centre His awards include the Robert Jones Gold Medal of the British Orthopaedic Association, a Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the 2016 Steindler Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society in the USA in recognition of outstanding global contribution to musculoskeletal research. He has served as a visiting professor in over 30 institutions and delivered more than 50 eponymous lectures worldwide. He was a trustee and deputy chairman of trustees of the charity Arthritis Research UK from 2003-2012. In 2017 he was recognised as a surgical role model by the BMJ. He is an NIHR Senior Investigator and was elected a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2009.

Orthopaedics, Rheumatology