Building on the success of previous meetings, Staffordshire University is pleased to announce the 10th conference on clinical biomechanics at the University Campus, Stoke on Trent.

This conference will provide a forum for information dissemination on lower limb clinical biomechanics and will facilitate discussion on research and case studies in this field via plenary sessions.

The keynote speakers will highlight the role of technology in understanding biomechanical principles with a focus on diagnosis and management of patients. There will be opportunities for debate and analysis of issues surrounding these topics.

Dr Martyn Shorten, Biomechanica LLC, USA.

Cushioning: The Mechanics and Biomechanics of Load Management
Lower Extremity Injuries in Runners: The Search for New Paradigms and Clinical Tools

Martyn received his Ph.D. from Loughborough University, UK, in 1984. Before starting his Research and Development business in 1992, he was employed as Director of the NIKE Sport Research Laboratory and as Director of Research Design and Product Development for PUMA AG. Shorten has been an active member of the International Society of Biomechanics since 1983 and served on the Society’s Executive Council from 2001-2003. In 1993, he established the ISB’s Technical Section on Footwear Biomechanics, a international working group of academics, clinicians and industry researchers. Shorten is Chairman of ASTM Committee F08 on Sports Equipment and Facilities, Chairman of the Athletic Footwear subcommittee and a member of the Committee on Standards. He is active in the development of standards for footwear, artificial turf and playground surfacing. He is also a member of the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA), and a Fellow of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers. While Shorten’s basic and applied research has won international recognition, he is a self-styled “recovering academic”, preferring to using science and technology as tools for developing applications and products. He is a frequent author and invited speaker on topics related to the biomechanics of human performance and injury, and their links to athletic footwear and sports surface and protective equipment design. He is an R&D consultant to leading athletic shoe and sports surface manufacturers. His patented inventions form the basis of NIKE’s “Tuned Air” and “Footbridge” systems, Puma’s “Trinomic Plus” and “Cell” technologies, and the array of footwear, protective equipment and surfacing products that use Skydex cushioning materials.

Mr Andrew Goldberg OBE, UCL Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science, UK.

"The realities of clinical life" - How quantitative assessments can have clinical utility and why often they don't!

Andrew studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School (Imperial College London) graduating in 1994. He obtained fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and Ireland in 1997/8 and then spent a year in full time research working towards a higher degree (MD) in cartilage repair techniques, where he was involved in the initial clinical trials of cartilage transplantation in the UK. He was awarded an MD from the University of London in 2006. His specialist training was on the North East Thames Programme, and he became a consultant in 2009. Following specialist fellowships, he spent a year as a consultant in Northampton before moving to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust in April 2010. Mr Goldberg has a joint appointment with UCL, where he is a Clinical Senior Lecturer, within the UCL Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science. He chairs the Medical Futures Innovation Awards and sits on the Health Innovation Council at the Department of Health. Mr Goldberg has authored several Text Books, and is editor for the Clinical Talk Series, distributed by World Scientific Publications. He was responsible for the creation of the National Joint Registry For Ankle Replacements.

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Dr Michael Khan, Biomedical Research Institute, University of warwick, UK.

Capturing complexity: multiplexed high resolution imaging can reveal unexpected heterogeneity of diseased tissues and improve diagnostics.

Mike is an Associate Professor of Medicine and previous Head of Molecular Medicine at the University of Warwick and a Consultant Diabetologist at the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire. He received his medical training at Guy’s and King’s and completed his postgraduate research training at University College London as an MRC training fellow and then lecturer. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a member of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain. His research interest is the regulation of tissue mass, which is now being pursued by the application of advanced in situ proteomics imaging (TIS microscopy) in an interdisciplinary systems biology consortium. Since 1998 he has been running a series of research programs aiming to understand the causes and potential treatments for defective beta cell mass expansion in obesity/diabetes on the one hand and how this may link to inherent fail-safe growth regulating processes that normally protect against deregulated growth and cancer. He has a long track record in inter-disciplinary research and was awarded an EPSRC-funded interdisciplinary award to bring engineering control theory to the study of beta cell turnover in diabetes. He is co-chair of the European ADIBET consortium, to explore links between obesity and diabetes. He has published extensively in high impact journals, including Cell, Lancet and Molecular Cell and has over 1,000 citations. He has authored and edited several textbooks, including the Molecular Biology of Cancer and runs two Masters programs in diabetes and CV risk and cancer biology.

Professor Rami Abboud, IMAR, University of Dundee, UK.

How dependent are we on technology in the assessment of patients and clinical intervention?

Rami graduated in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1988 and continued his postgraduate studies and obtained an MSc and PhD in Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering at the University of Dundee in 1989 and 1995 respectively. He was appointed as a Research Assistant in 1993 and was subsequently promoted to Lecturer then Senior Lecturer at the Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery in 1996 and 2002 respectively. In addition to his post of Head of Department of Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgery, Professor Abboud is the Director of the Institute of Motion Analysis and Research (IMAR) and Director of the Master of Orthopaedic Surgery (MChOrth) Course. Professor Abboud is the College Lead for International Affairs, the Chairman of the College Undergraduate Intercalated Honours (BMSc) Degree, and the Director for Postgraduate Education at the Centre of Academic Clinical Practice (CACP). He has been an elected member of the University Senate since 1996 and was elected by the Academic Council to the University Court in 2004 and 2007 respectively. Professor Abboud qualified as a certified accredited mediator, trained by Catalyst Mediation, in 2008. Professor Abboud has been a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Foot Journal since 1998. In November 2004, he was elected as the first non-clinician to the Scientific Sub-Committee of the British Foot and Ankle Surgery Society (BOFAS) and as an international member of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS). In January 2007, he was invited by the China Instrument and Control Society to be the foreign member for the Editorial Committee of the Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument and was promoted to Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Professor Abboud serves on numerous other committees within the College, University and respective Societies. The research programme that Professor Abboud established on Biomechanics and Motion Analysis in the late 80s led in 1993 to the foundation of the Foot Pressure Analysis Lab/Clinic and subsequently in 2003 to IMAR taking the leading role as founder, director and honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist at NHS Tayside.

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Dr Norman Murphy, Tekscan Inc., USA

Using Technology to Assess Location & Nature of Foot Dysfunctions and Treat Causes of Foot & Gait Related Disorders.

Norm is the Director of Product and Market Research and Development for Tekscan, Inc. Dr. Murphy earned his doctorate degree in Biomechanics at the University of Montreal in 1993, and has since been working closely with the clinical and scientific biomechanical communities. In addition to his international lectures, Dr. Murphy hosts workshops and seminars on force and pressure data capture, analysis, and interpretation. He is also a lecturer in Podiatry Schools and Universities in Canada, USA, and Europe.

Dr Tom Shannon

The Measurement and Analysis of Human Motion – Past, Present and Future.

Tom is a chartered professional engineer with over a quarter of a century of international, commercial experience as a practising engineer and medical physicist with a focus on clinical and machine vision applications applied to the analysis of human motion and shape. He is a cofounder of The Oxford Metrics Group plc headquartered in Oxford, and a Director of Vicon Motion Systems located in Oxford, Denver and Los Angeles. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, College of Biomedical Engineering of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce.

For more information:   Conference Secretariat Staffordshire Conference On Clinical Biomechanics 2012 Staffordshire University Faculty of Health, Leek Road Stoke on Trent - ST4 2DF, United Kingdom www.staffs.ac.uk/sccb