I'm an orthopaedic surgeon and researcher. My published work spans the inflammation biology of arthritic joints, the surgery and reconstruction of injured ones, and the population data that tells us what actually changes outcomes.
The musculoskeletal system is the part of the body most people use most often and understand least — until something hurts.
I write here because the gap between what we know in the lab and what patients hear in clinic is still too wide. There are better answers coming for arthritis, sarcopenia, broken bones, and old joints — and a doctor's job is to make those answers legible.
Essays, the research my group publishes, and an open page where you can ask me anything. Slow, careful, in plain language.
The ideas underneath everything else: how the body works, how disease behaves, how a doctor decides. For anyone who has wondered why.
Hypertension. Diabetes. The chronic illnesses that change a life slowly, in the background — and the daily decisions that change them back.
What surgery is, when it's the right answer, and how recovery actually unfolds.
Orthopaedics, biomaterials, ageing joints, sarcopenia, and the translational work of getting a hydrogel from the bench into a knee.
Osteoarthritis is the world's most common joint disease and one of its most stubborn — partly because cartilage, once gone, doesn't really grow back. A tour of what's happening inside an aching joint, and where the new generation of treatments fits in.
Read the essay →What to eat, what to ask, what the surgical team is doing while you sleep. A short, honest guide for the evening before an operation — written by someone who has stood on both sides of the door.
Read →Two numbers. A cuff. Five minutes a year. Why the most ordinary measurement in medicine is also one of the most consequential — and what it actually means when it climbs.
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