Fellowship Program Information

Affiliation (Center Type): Birmingham University (Teaching, Academic, University)
Fellowship Training Session or Other Educational Opportunity Length: 12 months
Can the Center customize educational opportunities for participants?: No
Fellows Accepted Per Year: 2
Faculty Participating in Fellowship Education: Professor Martyn Snow FRCS Mr Samir Massoud FRCS Mr Faisal Hussain FRCS
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Financial Support and Expenses

Types of Financial Support Available: Government
Other support that the Teaching Center can provide: Direct Application Other
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Anticipated Fellowship Participation in Surgical Cases

Area(s) of Specialty: Knee Arthroplasty Knee Arthroscopy Shoulder Arthroplasty Shoulder Arthroscopy
Role of the fellow with respect to Clinical, Surgical, Research, and other opportunities:
Types of Educational Opportunities:
Research projects, research facilities and resources, cadaver labs, publication opportunities, integration of the patient and public involvement, and the role of the fellow: Assessing SPECT/CT for the identification of cartilage lesions in the knee joint: A systematic review. Rix L, Tushingham S, Wright K, Snow M. Osteoarthr Cartil Open. 2025 Jan 30;7(1):100577. doi: 10.1016/j.ocarto.2025.100577. eCollection 2025 Mar. PMID: 39995588 Risk Factors For Increased External Rotation Deficit After Combined Bankart Repair And Remplissage For Recurrent Anterior Shoulder Instability. Haikal M, Helal A, Elforse E, El-Tantawy A, El-Sheikh T, El-Rosasy M, Snow M. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2025 Jan 29:S1058-2746(25)00091-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2024.12.017. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39889946 Associated Anatomic Abnormalities in Patients Undergoing Rotational Tibial Osteotomies for Patellofemoral Pathology and Implications for the Level of Correction. Haikal M, Singh N, Issac R, Silk G, Snow M. Cartilage. 2025 Jan 10:19476035241311548. doi: 10.1177/19476035241311548. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39791591 The management of isolated meniscal tears in skeletally immature children. An international expert consensus. Hampton M, Ali F, Nicolaou N, Ajuied A; Paediatric Meniscal Working Group. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2024 Oct 24. doi: 10.1002/ksa.12493. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39444332. Lower cell number, lateral defect location and milder grade are associated with improved autologous chondrocyte implantation outcome. Tierney L, Kuiper JH, Roberts S, Snow M, Williams M, Harrington MB, Harrison P, Gallacher P, Jermin P, Wright KT. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2024 Aug 27. doi: 10.1002/ksa.12433. Ex Ovo Chorioallantoic Membrane Assay as a Model of Bone Formation by Biomaterials. Owji N, Kohli N, Frost OG, Sawadkar P, Snow M, Knowles JC, García-Gareta E. ACS Macro Lett. 2024 Oct 15;13(10):1362-1368. doi: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.4c00343. Epub 2024 Sep 26. PMID: 39325943 A mixed-methods approach exploring acceptability and feasibility of trials designed to test drugs targeting prevention of post-traumatic osteoarthritis after knee injury. Kalsoum R, Minns Lowe CJ, Gilbert S, McCaskie AW, Snow M, Wright K, Bruce G, Mason DJ, Watt FE. Bone Joint Res. 2024 Sep 19;13(9):513-524. doi: 10.1302/2046-3758.139.BJR-2024-0109. PMID: 39293808; PMCID: PMC11410398. No Correlation Exists Between Tibial and Femoral Based Measurements of Patella Alta in a Population With Chronic Patellofemoral Pain or Instability Undergoing Patella Distalization. Snow M, Singh N, Rix L, Haikal M. Arthroscopy. 2024 Feb 9:S0749-8063(24)00092-6. doi: 10.1016/j.arthro.2024.01.036. PMID: 38340969 Midterm outcome of superior capsular reconstruction using doubled acellular human dermal allograft for irreparable rotator cuff tear. Snow M, Kuiper JH, Thimmegowda A, Ramsingh V, Haikal M, Amit P. J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2024 Jan;33(1):38-45. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2023.06.007. Epub 2023 Jul 13. PMID: 37453693 Evaluation of range of motion and functional outcomes after combined remplissage and bankart repair in recurrent anterior shoulder dislocation with off-track Hill-Sachs lesion and glenoid bone loss (< 20%) Mohammad Mahmoud Haikal, Martyn Snow, Ahmed El Sayed El Tantawy, Tarek Ahmed El-Sheikh and Mahmoud Abdel- Monem El-Rosasy Int J Orthop Sci 2023;9(3):14-18. DOI: 10.22271/ortho.2023.v9.i3a.3399 Injectable hydrogels: An emerging therapeutic strategy for cartilage regeneration. Atwal A, Dale TP, Snow M, Forsyth NR, Davoodi P. Adv Colloid Interface Sci. 2023 Nov;321:103030. doi: 10.1016/j.cis.2023.103030. Epub 2023 Oct 20. PMID: 37907031. Cost-effectiveness of a new ACI technique for the treatment of articular cartilage defects of the knee compared to regularly used ACI technique and microfracture. Snow M, Mandalia V, Custers R, Emans PJ, Kon E, Niemeyer P, Verdonk R, Gaissmaier C, Roeder A, Weinand S, Zöllner Y, Schubert T. J Med Econ. 2023 Mar 28:1-17. doi: 10.1080/13696998.2023.2194805. Online ahead of print.PMID: 36974460 A pilot randomised controlled trial assessing standard versus dermal patch-augmented rotator cuff repair found no adverse effects and suggest future trials need a minimum of 150 patients. Snow M, Kuiper JH, James S, Keeling E, Rich S, Amit P. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2023 Mar 2. doi: 10.1007/s00167-023-07356-5. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36862197 A Randomized Trial of Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation Versus Alternative Forms of Surgical Cartilage Management in Patients With a Failed Primary Treatment for Chondral or Osteochondral Defects in the Knee. Snow M, Middleton L, Mehta S, Roberts A, Gray R, Richardson J, Kuiper JH; ACTIVE Consortium; Smith A, White S, Roberts S, Griffiths D, Mohammed A, Moholkar K, Ashraf T, Green M, Hutchinson J, Bhullar T, Chitnis S, Shaw A, van Niekerk L, Hui A, Drogset JO, Knutsen G, McNicholas M, Bowditch M, Johnson D, Turner P, Chugh S, Hunt N, Ali S, Palmer S, Perry A, Davidson A, Hill P, Deo S, Satish V, Radford M, Langstaff R, Houlihan-Burne D, Spicer D, Phaltankar P, Hegab A, Marsh D, Cannon S, Briggs T, Pollock R, Carrington R, Skinner J, Bentley G, Price A, Schranz P, Mandalia V, O'Brien S. Am J Sports Med. 2023 Feb;51(2):367-378. doi: 10.1177/03635465221141907. Epub 2023 Jan 20. PMID: 36661257 Clinical Trial. Rehabilitation versus surgical reconstruction for non-acute anterior cruciate ligament injury (ACL SNNAP): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial David J Beard, Loretta Davies, Jonathan A Cook, Jamie Stokes, Jose Leal, Heidi Fletcher, Simon Abram, Katie Chegwin, Akiko Greshon, William Jackson, Nicholas Bottomley, Matt Dodd, Henry Bourke, Beverly A Shirkey, Arsenio Paez, Sarah E Lamb, Karen Barker, Michael Phillips, Mark Brown, Vanessa Lythe, Burhan Mirza, Andrew Carr, Paul Monk, Carlos Morgado Areia, Sean O’Leary, Fares Haddad, Chris Wilson, Andrew Price, on behalf of the ACL SNNAP Study Group* Lancet 2022 Aug 20;400(10352):605-615. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01424-6. Orthobiologics: Scientific background Iain R Murray, Martyn Snow, Cosimo De Bari and Andrew W McCaskie Journal or Orthopaedics and Trauma 10:1:48-49 Orthobiologics: Osteoarthritis Iain R Murray, Martyn Snow, Cosimo De Bari and Andrew W McCaskie Journal or Orthopaedics and Trauma 10:1:52-54
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