What are we all about?
Our mission is to develop future leaders who will have a positive impact in the orthopaedic world.
Our focus areas
- Trauma care and help to prevent trauma
- Management of patients with TB, HIV and other infections
- Care for elderly patients, women and children
- Education in Orthopaedic Surgery
- Innovations improving the care for our patients
Our Setup
Our research facilities are both embedded within the hospital and integrated with Child Health, Infectious Disease, NHLS, and Biomechanics research institutes of UCT. The resulting platform enables experimental musculoskeletal research, translational research, clinical trials and healthcare delivery to be undertaken in close proximity.
The partnership is underpinned by one of the most productive academic research environments in Africa. Clinical medicine research activity has more than doubled over the last five years at the Orthopaedic Department.
Basic science is further supported by internationally leading departmental programmes, such as Microbiology, Pathology, Genetics, and Biomedical Engineering. This creates an ideal setting for the dynamic inter-thematic research and encourages a network within which to conduct musculoskeletal research.
International Collaborators
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Prof Lalloo
- OA foundation
- Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health (University of Oxford)
- Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology - IGOT (University of California San Francisco)
- Harvard Medical Education Program