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Meet the members

MERG consists of four academic staff and eight PhD students from Anglia Ruskin University, seven consultant surgeons, physicians and engineers from hospitals (Mid-Essex Hospitals Trust, Springfield Ramsay Hospital and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York) and 3 collaborators from industry, who combine forces to address common debilitating clinical problems, such as osteoarthritis and venous ulcers.

 
ARU faculty members
Dr Rajshree Mootanah, PhD, MBA, Director of MERG
Dr Rob Walker, PhD, CEng
Emeritus Professor Paul Ingle, MSc
Mr Diagarajen Carpanen, BEng (Hons)
New Research Fellow, to be appointed in February 2011, PhD
Clinical members
Prof John Dowell (FRCS), orthopaedic surgeon, Mid-Essex Hospitals Trust, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford
Prof Kevin Cheah (FRCS), orthopaedic surgeon, Springfield Ramsay Hospital, Chelmsford
Dr Howard Hillstrom, PhD, Director, Leon Root Motion Analysis Laboratory, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
Dr Aimen Hassani (FRCA), Consultant Anaesthetist, Mid-Essex Hospital
Mr Tom Browne, Consultant vascular surgeon, Mid-Essex Hospitals Trust, Broomfield Hospital
Dr Pearl Wou, Consultant Radiologist, Mid-Essex Hospitals Trust, Broomfield Hospital
Mr Stephen Jayne, physiotherapist, Mid-Essex Hospitals Trust, Broomfield Hospital
Industrial liaison
Dr David Wilcox (PhD), Maric Trading Ltd
Dr Andrew New, Apogee Engineering Analysis for Finite Element Analysis
Mr Malcolm McKay, Electronics and Computing Consultant
Mr Mark Barron, County Orthopaedic Footwear
Current PhD Research students
Mr Carlos Jimenez-Bescos
Mr Dipankar Choudhury
Mr David Wickett
Mr Ioannis Prionidis
Mrs Dimitra Leivadiotou
Mr Yazan Deri
Mr Diagarajen Carpanen
Ms Franziska Reisse
Current post-graduate visiting students
Mr Antoine Truchetet (France)
Mr Ali Merdji (Algeria)
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