What is YORC?

YORC Is run by Orthopaedic trainees in the Yorkshire and Humber region, to facilitate collaborative research. We aim to connect trainees with projects that will inspire them and help them develop their interest in research and further orthopaedic knowledge.

How do I Get involved?

If you want to get involved in collaborative research please see a list of our currently recruiting projects below. Click on the Icon to see more details of each project and how you can help recruit patients and get involved.

How do I Start a project with YORC?

If you have a project that you would like to benefit from collarborative recruitment then get in touch with the team and we can add your project to our website, this will put you in contact with trainees from the yorskhire region who want to help with recruitment for your project.

YORC Aims to:

Inspire wider involvement in research by connecting trainees with academics in the region
Provide access to supervisors with a track record in the area of research
Be inclusive and trainees from all levels of training and background to participate and collaborate
Collaborate to answer key research questions for patient benefit

What are the benefits for trainees?

Develop your research idea with expert guidance
Learn and develop research skills useful for future projects
Work toward publication to improve your CV and satisfy CCT requirements
Lead a research project to develop organisational and leadership skills

Meet The Team

Mr Sohail Nisar

Sohail is an ST7 trainee as well as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow. He has a keen interest in hip fracture care and serves as Clinical Fellow to the NHFD. He had experience arranging collaborative research and is currently running the PPAK study, which is endorsed by several partners including BOTA, RSTN, RCSEng and is currently recruiting patients. He is determined to improve training for trainees and sits in the RCSEd Trainee Committee to influence positive change.

Mr Ben Van Duren

Ben van Duren is an ST8 Trauma & Orthopaedics in the Yorkshire & Humber region, and a Clinical Lecturer with the University of Leeds. He has progressed through the NIHR clinical Academic programme as an Academic Fellow with University College London and subsequently a Lectureship in Leeds. He is also a Chartered Engineer and completed his DPhil in the kinematics of total knee replacements.

His research interests are focused on the development of surgical technology and surgical trials. He is involved in two NIHR studies and has worked with several teams to successfully raise funding to evaluate and develop surgical instrumentation and implant technologies.

He has collaborated with a broad range of specialties and disciplines in his work and aims to continue fostering collaborations and translational opportunities in the future.

Mr Paul Rodham

I’m an ST4 trainee as well as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow. My research interests are in trauma and the sequelae of trauma, both basic science and clinical. I’m currently setting up the KNEE study which is due to commence in September and is backed by a number of partners including AO, BOTA and the OTS. I’m keen to help anyone who also wants to conduct research in trauma.

Mr Josh Lamb

I am a ST7 in Trauma and Orthopaedics in the Yorkshire and Humber area. I am an honorary clinical fellow at the University of Leeds and completed a PhD on periprosthetic femoral fractures around primary total hip replacements. My Supervisors were: Prof Hemant Pandit, Prof Anthony Redmond, Prof Robert West and Dr Todd Stewart.

My work was supported by the Sir John Charnley Trust, The National Joint Registry, AO UK and MeDe.

I plan to finish training in October 2022 and continue fellowship training in NZ and the UK.

Research interests

Main focus includes: assessment of implant registry data, data science, statistics, design-based registry analysis and biomechanical and clinical evaluation of orthopaedic implants.

I am also involved in more general trauma and orthopaedic research in the trust’s where I have worked.

Mr Vasileios Giannoudis

I’m an ST3 trainee as well as and NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow. My research interests predominantly are in arthroplasty and trauma and I am preparing to undertake a PhD at the University of Leeds investigating the return to driving following lower limb arthroplasty. I am happy to collaborate with or assist any trainees with similar research interests.

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What is YORC?

Meet The Team

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