Professor
Head of Orthopaedics and Trauma Department
Address
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SU.303, Chancellor's building
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Availability
Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays for University business.
Background
Professor Hamish Simpson is Professor of Orthopaedics and Trauma, and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in limb reconstruction, musculoskeletal infection and paediatric deformity. He is president of the Combined Services Orthopaedic Society and past president of the Scottish Committee for Orthopaedics and Trauma, the British Limb Reconstruction Society, the Association of Professors of Orthopaedic Surgery, and of the British Orthopaedic Research Society. He has a research interest in stem cells for musculoskeletal repair, musculoskeletal infection, novel cutting methodologies and impaired bone healing.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) 1978
BM, BCh (Oxon) 1981
MA (Cantab) 1981
FRCS (Edinburgh and England) 1986
DM (Oxon) 1993
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
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Meaningful values of the EQ-5D-3L in patients undergoing primary knee arthroplasty
(10 pages)
In:
Bone & Joint Research, vol. 11, pp. 619-628
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1302/2046-3758.119.BJR-2022-0054.R1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Septic arthritis in an in vivo murine model induced by Staphylococcus aureus: a comparison between actions of the haemolysin toxin and the effects of the host immune response
(10 pages)
In:
Bone & Joint Research, vol. 11, pp. 669–678
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The IMPACT of COVID-19 in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery provides lessons for future communicable disease outbreaks: minimum reporting standards, risk scores, fragility trauma services, and global collaboration
(4 pages)
In:
Bone & Joint Research, vol. 11, pp. 342-345
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1302/2046-3758.116.BJR-2022-0060
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
The delivery of an emergency audit response to a communicable disease outbreak can inform future orthopaedic investigations and clinical practice: lessons from IMPACT Hip Fracture Global Audits
(3 pages)
In:
Bone & Joint Research, vol. 11, pp. 346-348
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1302/2046-3758.116.BJR-2022-0061
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
The effect of sarcopenia on outcomes following orthopedic surgery: a systematic review
In:
The Bone & Joint Journal, vol. 104-B, pp. 321-330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.104B3.BJJ-2021-1052.R1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
3D ultrasound reconstruction of sonographic callus: a novel imaging modality for early evaluation of fracture healing
(8 pages)
In:
Bone & Joint Research, vol. 10, pp. 759-766
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1302/2046-3758.1012.BJR-2021-0250
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The ability to kneel before and after total knee arthroplasty: the role of the pattern of osteoarthritis and the position of the femoral component
(12 pages)
In:
The Bone & Joint Journal, vol. 103-B, pp. 1514-1525
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.103B9.BJJ-2020-2129.R2
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Acute plate fixation of displaced midshaft clavicular fractures is not associated with earlier return of normal shoulder function when union is achieved
(8 pages)
In:
Bone & Joint Open, vol. 2, pp. 522-529
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1302/2633-1462.27.BJO-2021-0049.R1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Developing a novel set of quality performance indicators (QPIs) for metastatic bone disease (MBD)
In:
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, vol. 47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejso.2020.11.085
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Meeting abstract (Published) -
Terminal Schwann cells at the human neuromuscular junction
(12 pages)
In:
Brain Communications, vol. 3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcab081
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)