Engineering the Knee: Innovation at the Interfaces for Improved Surgery and Rehabilitation

Name: Engineering the Knee: Innovation at the Interfaces for Improved Surgery and Rehabilitation
Start: 2018-12-10T08:30:00
Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London

10 December 2018 - 11 December 2018
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Overview

Whilst joint replacement surgery is, in the most part, a highly successful operation, it is estimated that up to 1 in 5 of patients are not satisfied following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Treatments for knee disease, pain and trauma tend to fail preferentially at the interfaces.

This two-day conference will provide a forum for leaders in the field and early career researchers to discuss the latest innovative technologies and approaches for improving knee interfaces. The event will also address the communication challenges between researchers and the patients and healthcare professionals their research aims to serve.

Biomechanical engineers and clinical researchers investigating the knee, will come together to address studies that examine knee interfaces. These studies will include modular and articulating implant components, implants and the body, and the role of key stakeholders. This event will improve your understanding of both the technological and clinical challenges facing the industry today.

Attend this conference to:

Hear innovative research focusing on the engineering contribution in relation to arthroplasty as well as interfaces
Bridge the gap of communication across disciplines with over five hours of networking opportunities across two days with those leading the field in both academia and industry
Take the opportunity to hear from those closing the gap between medicine and engineering

Key programme highlights:

Osteoarthritis Technology NetworkPlus identify and address technology-based knowledge gaps in the field of osteoarthritis
Beyond Compliance discuss the new Medical Device Regulations coming out of Europe in light of Brexit
The University of Leeds address the aims and challenges of preclinical testing of the knee, providing an overview of current methodologies and progress in computational modelling
Imperial College London discuss how science and technology will transform the replacement of sore knees, from being expensive, dangerous and of limited effectiveness into a better value, safer and more effective intervention
The University of Southampton will address the reasoning behind implant retrieval analysis and what information we can obtain from this practice

Keynote speakers include:

Dave Henson MBE, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
Keith Tucker, Chairman, Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Portal and Beyond Compliance Advisory Group
Justin Cobb, Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery, Imperial College London
Richie Gill, Deputy Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath
Ruth Wilcox, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Leeds
Nick Bishop, Professor of Biomechanics, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Richard Cook, Research Fellow, University of Southampton

Organising Committee:

Biomedical Engineering Association, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Member Credits:
Richard van Arkel, Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London
Mahsa Avadi, Product Development Engineer, DePuy Synthes
Alex Dickinson, Lecturer within Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton

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Day 1

08:30 - Conference Programme

	MONDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2018
08:30	REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:10	CHAIR’S WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
	NEW METHODS: TISSUE FUNCTION
09:20	KEYNOTE ADDRESS Dave Henson MBE, Imperial College London
09:40	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
09:50	THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES FOR ARTICULAR CARTILAGE REGENERATION Jeff Clark, Imperial College London
10:00	DEVELOPMENT OF PRE-CLINICAL TEST METHODS FOR ASSESSING FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE OF OSTEOCHONDRAL GRAFTS IN THE TIBIOFEMORAL AND PATELLOFEMORAL JOINTS Louise M Jennings, University of Leeds
10:10	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
	PRE-CLINICAL ANALYSIS
10:20	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THE ROUTE TO MARKET, PAST PROBLEMS AND THE NEW MDR +/- BREXIT Keith Tucker, Beyond Compliance
10:40	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
10:50	AN ALL-POLYMER TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT Louise M Jennings, University of Leeds
11:00	THIRD BODY WEAR OF UHMPWE-ON-PEEK-OPTIMA™ Raelene M Cowie, University of Leeds
11:10	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
11:25	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
	NEW METHODS: JOINT FUNCTION
11:55	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: KNEE MODELLING Ruth Wilcox, Leeds University
12:15	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
12:25	4D CT-BASED ANALYSIS OF KNEE KINEMATICS Andre Attard, Strathclyde University
12:35	THE CLASSIFICATION OF KNEE REHABILITATION EXERCISES USING LOWER LIMB ACCELEROMETER DATA Philippa Jones, Cardiff University
12:45	DEVELOPMENT OF A FULLY 3D MUSCULOSKELETAL MODEL WITH PREDICTIVE MUSCLE ACTIVATION Junyan Li, Middlesex University
12:55	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
13:10	NETWORKING LUNCH
	HTO VS PARTIAL VS TOTAL KNEE
14:10	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: NANOMATERIALS FOR HIERARCHICAL COMPOSITES Richie Gill, Bath University
14:30	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
14:40	COMBINED EFFECT OF WIDE STANCE GAIT AND HIGH TIBIAL OSTEOTOMY ON KNEE ADDUCTION MOMENT IN PATIENTS WITH VARUS KNEE DEFORMITY Jake Bowd, Cardiff University
14:50	COMBINED PARTIAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY IS ASSOCIATED WITH MORE NORMAL GAIT AND HIGHER PATIENT SATISFACTION THAN TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY Amy Garner, Imperial College London
15:00	DETERMINING THE BIOMECHANICAL OUTCOME OF TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY USING DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY CLASSIFICATION Paul Biggs, Cardiff University
15:10	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
15:25	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
	DIAGNOSIS AND SURGICAL TECHNIQUE
15:55	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: JOINT SPARING KNEE ARTHROPLASTY - HOWDETAILED DIAGNOSES DRIVE PATIENT SPECIFIC SURGERY Professor Justin Cobb, Imperial College London
16:15	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
16:25	KNEE MECHANICS OF ROBOTIC ASSISTED UNICOMPARTMENTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY IN COMPARISON TO CONVENTIONAL METHODS AT A FIVE-YEAR FOLLOW UP Lindsay Millar, Strathclyde University
16:35	USE OF THE FLOW 50 WEREWOLF RADIOFREQUENCY COBLATION DEVICE WITHIN THE KNEE; CLINICAL INDICATIONS, SURGICAL EXPERIENCE AND PATIENT OUTCOME James R Murray, Southmead Hospital, Bristol UK
16:45	IMAGE-FREE HANDHELD ROBOT FOR TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY – LEARNING CURVE AND ALIGNMENT ASSESSMENT Alan Rossington, Smith & Nephew
16:55	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
17:10	END OF DAY ONE

Day 2

08:30 - Conference Programme

	TUESDAY, 11 DECEMBER 2018
08:30	REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:00	CHAIR’S WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS
	KNEE RECONSTRUCTION
09:10	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: USING 3D IMAGING TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF MEDICAL DEVICES ON BONE AND SOFT TISSUE STRAINS Alex Dickenson, Southampton University
09:30	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
	SOFT TISSUE TKA
09:40	A NEW GEOMETRIC RATIO FOR LIGAMENT BALANCING IN ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR REFERENCED TKA Carl Imhauser, New York Hospital for Special Surgery
09:50	EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATION MODEL OF THE NATURAL PORCINE KNEE: THE EFFECT OF VARIATION IN DIFFERENT LIGAMENTOUS CONSTRAINTS ON JOINT MECHANICS Aiqin Liu, University of Leeds
10:00	THE KINEMATICS AND WEAR OF A TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT UNDER DIFFERENT SOFT TISSUE CONDITIONS Helena Johnston, University of Leeds
10:10	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
10:30	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
	OATECH NETWORK
11:00	OATECH NETWORK SESSION Speakers include: Cathy Holt, Cardiff University Philip Rowe, Strathclyde University Deborah Mason, Cardiff University
12:30	NETWORKING LUNCH
	IMPLANT FIXATION AND IMPACTION
13:30	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: IMPLANT ANCHORAGE IN BONE Nick Bishop, Hamburg University of Applied Science
13:50	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
14:00	DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTRA-OPERATIVE TIBIAL CEMENT FIXATION TEST PROTOCOL Ioan Cracaoanu, Research and Test Engineer, DePuy Synthes
14:10	ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED IMPLANT FIXATION Richard van Arkel, Imperial College London
14:20	SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS UNDER IMPACT LOADING: DESIGN, ANALYSIS, AND TESTING METHODS Mark Reason, DePuy Synthes
14:30	AN IN-VITRO MODEL OF IMPACTION IN ARTHROPLASTY Ruben Doyle, Imperial College London
14:40	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
15:00	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
	RETRIEVALS AND WEAR
15:30	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: IMPLANT RETRIEVAL ANALYSIS AND THE THINGS WE CAN LEARN Richard Cook, New Frontiers Fellow, Southampton University
15:50	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
16:00	A SURFACE TOPOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF RETRIEVED KNEE REPLACEMENT PROSTHESES Emma Kennard, Newcastle University
16:10	KINEMATICS, MECHANICS AND WEAR PERFORMANCE OF A TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT UNDER DIFFERENT INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION (ISO) CONTROL REGIMES AND SIMULATION INPUTS Abdellatif Abdelgaied, Leeds University
16:20	ASSESSMENT OF RETRIEVED OXINIUM PATELLOFEMORAL PROSTHESES Shannen Chacko Rajan, Newcastle University
16:30	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
16:50	END OF CONFERENCE

Alex Dickenson: RAEng Research Fellow, University of Southampton

Alex is a mechanical engineer with 14 years’ experience in biomedical engineering. He started work in industry with Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd., in hip arthroplasty pre-clinical analysis and testing. He has an academic position at the University of Southampton lecturing engineering design and computing, and holds an RAEng Research Fellowship entitled ‘Developing, Testing and Fitting the Next Generation of Prosthetic Limbs’. He is most motivated by multidisciplinary work with clinicians, health scientists and industry, aiming to deliver research that is relevant to service users, and technologies which are fit-for-purpose. Alex sits on the board of the IMechE’s Biomedical Engineering Division (BmED). He is Associate Editor (Reviews) at the IPEM journal Medical Engineering & Physics, and a STEM Ambassador

Andre Attard: PhD Student, University of Strathclyde

Andre Attard did his undergraduate studies at the University of Malta, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He then worked as a Research and Development engineer, where his interest in research developed. Following his industrial experience, he moved to Scotland, where he pursued and obtained a Masters in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. During his Masters he studied lower-limb biomechanics, which has since been his passion. Currently, he is in his final stages of his doctorate at the University of Strathclyde. His work focuses on the development of a new method of capturing and analysing knee biomechanics.

Dr Raelene M Cowie: Research Fellow, Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, University of Leeds

Supervised by Dr Louise Jennings my research focusses primarily on the biotribology of knee prostheses. Experimental simulation has been used to investigate the wear performance of a novel all-polymer knee implant and methodologies have been developed to deliver more rigorous pre-clinical tests to replacement joints under conditions which recreate the wear and damage seen in vivo. This research is translational, being primarily funded by external industry collaborations. The simulation methods and analysis techniques which were originally developed for artificial materials are now being transferred to natural joints.

Emma Kennard Ritchie : PhD Student, Newcastle University

Emma is a Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate at Newcastle University and is awaiting viva examination. Emma holds an MSc in Medical Engineering from Leeds University and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Edinburgh University. After gaining 10 years professional experience within new product development project management and business consulting, Emma returned to academic research in 2011to undertake a part-time PhD. Emma’s research is concerned with the surface topographical analysis of explanted knee replacement prostheses. Emma’s work has established a collection of explanted knee replacement prostheses catalogued at Newcastle University.

Ioan Cracaoanu: Research and Test engineer, DePuy Synthes

Ioan Cracaoanu is research and test engineer at DePuy Synthes. He holds a PhD in Tribology from University of Twente, The Netherlands. Previous joining DePuy Synthes he worked as a tribologist for Bosch and Philips in the Netherlands. He is certified as a CEng IMechE mechanical engineer and specialized in Tribology with more than 12 years experience in automotive, aerospace, high precision systems, consumer products and orthopaedic industries. In current role, he is involved in knee and hip implants.

Keith Tucker: Chairman, ODEP and the Beyond Compliance Advisory Group

Chairman of ODEP and the Beyond Compliance advisory group, member of the NJR Implant performance committee.
Retired Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon
Past secretary and past president of the British Hip Society.
Past member of the National Joint Registry (NJR) Steering Committee and past chairman of the NJR Implant performance committee. Surgeon working with the NJR in the link up with EPRD
Member of NORE committee. Past member of ICOR board and ISAR committee.
Member of the BOA / MHRA advisory committee on the problems of Metal on Metal articulations
Author and co-author on numerous papers in general orthopaedics with a particular emphasis on Hip replacement

Richard Cook: New Frontiers Fellow, University of Southampton

Dr. Richard Cook is a New Frontiers fellow within the national Centre for Advanced Tribology at Southampton (nCATS). His expertise lies in the nanomechanical, tribological and tribocorrosive characterisation of biomaterials and biological materials and also implant performance evaluation. Dr. Cook has undertaken a implant evaluation for a number of companies and is part of the Beyond Compliance Implant retrieval alliance. Dr. Cook is the manager of the EPSRC funded nanomechanical and tribological testing facility at Southampton (EP/K00509X/1 and EP/K005103/1).

Junyan Li: Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University

Dr. Junyan Li is a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University. He is the Tribology Bronze Medallist awarded by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in 2014. He is the organiser of the 2018 UK-China Researcher Links Workshop, bringing together over 50 researchers from the UK and China to foster collaboration in the topic of “Design and advanced manufacturing of patient-specific implant”. His research includes definition of different disease stages of articular joints, optimisation and stratification of treatments and medical devices, development of new method to allow for more accurate and systematic biomechanical investigation of musculoskeletal system.

Lindsay Millar: Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Strathclyde

Lindsay Millar is a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her research interests include functional outcome following total/unicompartmental knee replacement, the effects of virtual reality feedback in clinical rehabilitation, furthering the use of objective movement measurement systems in routine clinical practice and use of smart devices/wearable technology for diagnosis/screening of childhood disorders.

Shannen Chacko Rajan: PhD Student, Newcastle University

Shannen Chacko Rajan is a third year Ph.D. engineering student at Newcastle University working on failure analysis of explanted knee prostheses. The work is mainly focused on how the in vivo changes in roughness, wear and material characteristics affect the longevity of the implants. Also if any correlation exists between the tribological results obtained for the explants and patient-implant demographics.

Ruth Wilcox: Director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, University of Leeds

Prof Wilcox’s research interests lie in the development and testing of medical devices for musculoskeletal disorders using both experimental and computational methods. She trained as a mechanical engineer at Oxford and Leeds, and has held fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering and European Research Council. She currently leads an EPSRC Programme Grant in Optimising Knee Therapies. Prof Wilcox works closely with industry and clinicians in the development of new interventions and improved pre-clinical testing methods. She is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Panel for Biomedical Engineering.

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Day 1

08:30 - Conference Programme

Day 2

08:30 - Conference Programme

Alex Dickenson: RAEng Research Fellow, University of Southampton

Andre Attard: PhD Student, University of Strathclyde

Dr Raelene M Cowie: Research Fellow, Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, University of Leeds

Emma Kennard Ritchie : PhD Student, Newcastle University

Ioan Cracaoanu: Research and Test engineer, DePuy Synthes

Keith Tucker: Chairman, ODEP and the Beyond Compliance Advisory Group

Richard Cook: New Frontiers Fellow, University of Southampton

Junyan Li: Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University

Lindsay Millar: Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Strathclyde

Shannen Chacko Rajan: PhD Student, Newcastle University

Ruth Wilcox: Director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, University of Leeds

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