Andrew J Carr

Surgeon, Person

1958 –

25

Who is Andrew J Carr?

Professor Andrew Jonathan Carr is a British surgeon and Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedics and has been head of the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford since 2001.

Professor Carr's research interests are primarily focused on developing and evaluating surgical technologies including joint replacement, arthroscopy and tissue engineering. He has led a number of UK-wide surgical randomized Clinical trials. With colleagues in Oxford he pioneered the involvement of patients in assessing the outcome of orthopaedic operations and has invented a series of patient reported outcome measures. The Oxford Scores are now used worldwide in clinical trials and by national joint replacement registries. He works on the effectiveness of surgery in the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain including the placebo role of surgical procedures and the importance of central sensitization in persistent post-operative pain.

In 2002 he founded the Botnar Research Centre as an Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences.

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1958
Bradford
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on July 23, 2013

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