ORI’s Postdoctoral Data Science Research Assistant, Dr Richard Matzko, recently spent a week at Jesus College within Oxford University to gain insight and connect with leading researchers in the design, execution and analysis of studies involving wearable devices for clinical purposes. The course, titled ‘Machine Learning of Wearables in Large Scale Biomedical Studies’, was organised… Read more » about ORI attends Oxford University to learn more about the use of wearable technology
Join ORI’s Professor Middleton on 2nd October at 2:00pm at St Mark’s Church, Highcliffe, to hear more about how to avoid hip surgery.
It was a pleasure to welcome Poole Grammar School pupil Eddie Hall to ORI today for some work experience. Eddie had the opportunity to spend time with the whole of the ORI team to learn about our research and clinical practice, and also complete some VR surgery in the afternoon with our Hip Fellow Sameh… Read more » about ORI helping to inspire surgeons of the future
Over the past few months, Professor Middleton‘s Clinical Hip Fellow, Mr Nishil Modi has been offering surgical trainees from across the Wessex Deanery the opportunity to hone their surgical skills on the VR surgical simulators at ORI. Nishil has been teaching his colleagues in small groups and reports, “it has been great to see local… Read more » about Surgical trainees supported with VR simulation
We are delighted to welcome Wissem Tafat to the ORI team, she has joined ORI as a match funded PhD student in partnership with NHS Scotland. Her research will use data science techniques to develop a learning health system in NHS Scotland for orthopaedic surgery patients. She is being supervised by Prof Tom Wainwright, Prof… Read more » about ORI welcomes new PhD student – Wissem Tafat
Last week, ORI was delighted to welcome third year BSc (Hons) Operating Department Practice (ODP) students to ORI’s Virtual Reality Training Lab for a series of workshops. The workshops were a follow-up from last year’s highly successful collaboration between ORI, Debora Almeida and her colleagues from the ODP team. Over a period of 3 days,… Read more » about VR surgical simulation workshops at ORI for BU ODP students
ORI was delighted to welcome third year BSc (Hons) Operating Department Practice students to the Virtual Reality Training Lab for a series of workshops last week. The workshops were the first step in a growing collaboration between ORI and Debora Almeida and her colleagues from the Operating Department Practice team. Professor Tom Wainwright introduced the… Read more » about ODP students benefit from VR surgical simulation training at ORI
We are delighted to share the news that Mara Aguilera Canon has successfully defended her PhD entitled “Machine learning and augmented reality for total hip replacement simulation.” Mara, who collaborated with ORI and the National Centre for Computer Animation, is now working as a virtual reality/augmented reality system developer at Bournemouth University. Mara’s role involves… Read more » about Mara Aguilera Canon successfully defends her PhD
“As a recent Psychology graduate I decided to explore my options within the field. I was luckily given the exciting opportunity to work alongside ORI on a research project, exploring how mental health smartphone applications are implemented and their impact on mental health. This was part of a larger future project researching how such applications… Read more » about “My Experience at ORI” by Student Research Assistant Katie Webb
As a psychology student at Bournemouth University, I was delighted to have the opportunity to join the Orthopaedic research Institute team this summer as a Student Research Assistant. Working closely with Ranti Samaratunga on her PhD project which explores the Development and Evaluation of a Dedicated Simulator for Hip Surgery Training, I worked on evaluating… Read more » about “My Experience at ORI” by Student Research Assistant Layla Johnson
