The Importance of Biomechanics in the Assessment of Orthopaedic Medical Devices

Prof Richard M Hall has the Chair of Biomechanical and Oncological Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham. By education, Richard is a physicist, having gained a PhD from the University of Lancaster but then transferred to medical engineering in 1991 as a postdoctoral researcher at Durham University. He was made Professor at Leeds in 2006. He moved to Birmingham in 2024. His research portfolio is focused on joint replacements, traumatic and pathological fracture and other novel medical interventions, including those utilised in metastatic bone disease arising from cancer.  He is currently the

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