Andrew Carr

Andy is currently the Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and a fellow of Worcester College at the University of Oxford. Her is a graduate of the University of Bristol and undertook postgraduate training in Oxford, Seattle and Melbourne obtaining his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and a DSc from Oxford. 

 He has combined clinical practice, teaching, research and leadership roles throughout his career. His research has had a significant influence on the management of patients undergoing surgery. He has pioneered the development and evaluation of surgical implants and technologies, including the Oxford partial knee replacement, that has been implanted in over 2 million patients worldwide and the Oxford patient reported outcome scores, that have been translated into over 30 languages and are used to direct Health Policy globally. He has focussed on improving the multidisciplinary skills and infrastructure required for UK and international multicentre surgical trials. He has led the controversial use of placebo surgery controls which has resulted in the decommissioning of ineffective operations with reduction in risk to patients and significant cost savings to health economies globally. His work with Irene Tracey has led to an improved understanding of the role of the brain in chronic musculoskeletal pain. More recently his group has patented novel electrospun implants which improve tissue repair. He is one of the 25 most cited surgical researchers globally.

He has been a strong promoter of interdisciplinary research across the medical, social and engineering sciences. He founded the Botnar Research Institute at the University of Oxford in 2002 and was director of the NIHR Biomedical Research unit from 2008-17. He was a Non-Executive Director and then Divisional Director of the specialist Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust. He is a Nuffield Medical Trustee and Chair of the Nuffield Oxford Hospitals Fund. He is an elected Council member and Trustee of the Royal College of Surgeons and Deputy Chair of the Board of Trustees of Bristol University. He has held higher education and health service advisory board roles in the UK and globally. He has received numerous national and international awards including an honorary Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen and a fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.