Scientific Advisory Board

• James Andrews, MD
  Dr. Andrews is a founding member of Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also a founder of the American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI) a non-profit institute dedicated to injury prevention, education and research in orthopaedics and sports medicine. He has mentored more than 250 orthopaedic/sports medicine Fellows and more than 45 primary care sports medicine Fellows who have trained under him through the ASMI. Doctor Andrews is a founding partner and the Medical Director of the Andrews Institute located in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Doctor Andrews graduated from Louisiana State University in 1963, where he was Southeastern Conference indoor and outdoor pole vault champion. He completed LSU School of Medicine in 1967 and completed his orthopaedic residency at Tulane Medical School in 1972.
  
  Doctor Andrews is a member of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He is the 2009-2010 President of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine. He is Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics Surgery at the University Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, the University of Virginia School of Medicine, the University of Kentucky Medical Center, and the University of South Carolina Medical School.
  
  Doctor Andrews serves as Medical Director for Intercollegiate Sports at Auburn University and Senior Orthopaedic Consultant at the University of Alabama. He serves on the Medical and Safety Advisory Committee of USA Baseball and on the Board of Little League Baseball, Inc., and is Senior Consultant for the Washington Redskins; Medical Director for the Tampa Bay Rays; and Medical Director for the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Doctor Andrews was inducted into the states of Alabama and Louisiana Sports Halls of Fame; the LSU Alumni Hall of Distinction and the LSU College of Basic Science Hall of Distinction.   >>close
• James (Jimi) Cook, DVM, Ph. D
  Dr. Cook received a BS degree from Florida State University in 1988. After a short career as a professional water skier, he completed the DVM degree in 1994 at the University of Missouri. He then went on to a small animal rotating internship at the University of Minnesota. He returned to the University of Missouri in 1995 for a dual PhD-Small Animal Surgery Residency program. He completed his PhD in Pathobiology in 1998 and became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1999.
  
  In 1999, he co-founded the Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory at the University of Missouri, which is a research laboratory involving the College of Veterinary Medicine, The School of Medicine, and The College of Engineering. He has numerous peer-reviewed publications to his credit in both the veterinary and human medical literature. He has received grants from The National Institutes of Health, The Orthopaedic Trauma Association, The Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Zimmer, DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc, and Arthrex.
  
  He currently has a dual appointment at the University of Missouri in Small Animal Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery (human), and is the Director of The Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory and the William & Kathryn Allen Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery.  >>close
• Michael G. Dunn, Ph. D
  Dr. Dunn is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Founding Director, Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ. Professor Dunn, a biomedical engineer specializing in biomaterials for tissue engineering, is heading a research team which is pioneering the use of collagen, synthetic, and hybrid scaffolds for the repair and regeneration of various musculoskeletal soft tissues.
  
  Over the past two decades, Dunn’s lab has developed collagen fiber based scaffolds for repair of complex soft tissues such as the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus of the knee, with a focus on collagen crosslinking and sterilization, decellularization of allografts, as well as seeding cells onto scaffolds and grafts. Dunn founded the Orthopaedic Research Laboratories in 1988 and has been the principal investigator on several NIH-funded projects on tissue engineering strategies for ligament repair, and many tissue bank-funded projects on osteoinduction and improving soft tissue allograft efficacy.
  
  He is currently co-investigator (with Dr. Charles Gatt) on an NIH-funded project and a NJ Center for Biomaterials - Center for Military Biomaterials project focusing on scaffolds for meniscus repair. Dunn is also part of the AFIRM (Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine) team led by Rutgers University.  >>close
• Braden Fleming, Ph. D
  Dr. Braden C. Fleming is a Professor of Orthopaedics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and has an adjunct appointment in the Department of Engineering of Brown University. He received his doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Vermont in 1996 where he then served on the faculty member for the Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation at UVM. He transferred to Brown University in 2003 where he was recently promoted to Professor.
  
  His primary research interests focus on the treatment of knee injuries. Current projects include the development of experimental models to investigate the relationship between ACL injury, current treatment options and cartilage damage, and the design of clinical studies of knee injury mechanisms. He has received multiple research grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Football League Charities, and other funding agencies. He has served on several NIH study sections and has over 70 original publications.  >>close
• Cy Frank, MD
  Dr. Frank is currently a Professor of the Division of Orthopaedics/Department of Surgery, University of Calgary/Calgary Health Region; an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Scientist; the McCaig Professor of Joint Injury and Arthritis Research; and Executive Director of the provincial Alberta Bone & Joint Health Institute. He was the inaugural Scientific Director of the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research from 2000 to 2006, and he was the Chief of Division of Orthopaedics for the University of Calgary/Calgary from 1992-2008. Over the years he has Chaired or been a member of many local, national and international committees for many different associations (The Arthritis Society, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Canadian Orthopaedic Association, Deputy Editor of the Journal of Orthopaedic Research, etc.). He has published 220 peer-reviewed publications and 39 book chapters and presented 355 abstracts locally, nationally and internationally.
  
  Dr. Frank was a member of Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s “Key Results” Working Group from 2004-2006 where they developed performance measures including Knowledge Translation metrics and a member of CIHR’s Standing Committee on Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Analysis from 2002 to 2006. He served as an external reviewer of the RAND report on “The Returns of Arthritis Research” prepared for the UK Arthritis Research Campaign in 2004. In addition, he was an architect of the model and pilot project on “Wait times – Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute Hip and Knee Pilot Project” presented to the House of Commons in 2006.  >>close
• Mary Lloyd Ireland, MD
  Dr. Ireland is an Orthopaedic Surgeon and President of Kentucky Sports Medicine Clinic in Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Ireland received her Medical Degree from the University of Tennessee. Her residency was at the University of California, Irvine and her fellowships in Sports Medicine were at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts and Hughston Orthopaedic Clinic, Columbus, Georgia. Dr. Ireland served as Team Physician for EKU from 1988 to January 2006, Team Physician for the University of Kentucky from 1985 to 1996. She served as Medical Coordinator and Head Physician for the Bluegrass State Games from 1985 to 1996.
  
  She served as Head Physician at the Olympic Sports Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1990 and as a Medical Staff Member at the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain in 1992. Dr. Ireland serves on the editorial board for numerous journals including the American Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Athletic Training, Journal of Sport Rehabilitation and The Physician and Sportsmedicine. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American College of Sports Medicine. She is a member of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society and an affiliate member of the National Athletic Trainers Association. Dr. Ireland has served on the Kentucky Medical Association’s Committee on School Health, Physical Education, and Medical Aspect of Sports from 1987 to the present and also has served on the Kentucky State Advisory Council on Athletic Trainers from 1992 until the present.
  
  Dr. Ireland has published numerous articles and chapters. She is co-editor of The Female Athlete (Saunders 2002) and editor of the AAOS Instructional Course Lectures – Sports Medicine, published (2005). She is involved in numerous endeavors regarding gender differences, injury patterns, treatment and prevention of the knee and shoulder.  >>close
• David Mooney, Ph. D
  Dr. Mooney is the Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. His laboratory is developing materials to direct the trafficking and fate of cell populations in the body. The applications of these systems include the regeneration of damaged or diseased tissues (tissue engineering), or the targeted destruction of undesirable tissue masses in the body.
  
  He was previously a faculty member at the University of Michigan, and his education and training is from the University of Wisconsin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard Medical School. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of the Medical and Biological Engineering, a NIH MERIT awardee, and has received the Society for Biomaterials Clemson Award and AADR/IADR Distinguished Scientist Award. His inventions have been licensed by eight companies for development and he is active on industrial scientific advisory boards.  >>close
• Martha Murray, MD
  Dr. Murray's research focuses on stimulating healing of intra-articular tissues (tissues found inside the joint), particularly the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and meniscus. Treatment of these injuries is one of the most challenging problems in the orthopaedic arena today. These tissues have minimal intrinsic ability to repair or regenerate, and are traditionally treated by excision of the injured tissue and replacement with self (autograft) or donor tissue (allograft). Although successful, these procedures have a higher occurrence of premature knee osteoarthritis and consequently have a substantial impact on the patient’s lifestyle.
  
  Dr. Murray's laboratory at Children’s Hospital Boston researches the regenerative potential of intra-articular tissues after injury. They have found that the cells in each of these tissues have great potential for the processes required for healing; proliferation, migration and extra-cellular matrix production, if provided with the appropriate environment. The Murray laboratory has identified that intra-articular tissues fail to heal because the fibrin clot produced immediately post injury from the bleeding tissue is not sustained in the joint. The fibrin clot is critical in bridging the torn ends of the tissue and is an essential biological component of the healing cascade. Enzymes present within the synovial fluid degrade the fibrin clot before healing can be initiated. Work continues to focus on development of a substitute material for the fibrin clot, allowing intra-articular tissues to heal in the same manner as their extra-articular counterparts.
  
  Dr. Murray is also an orthopeadic surgeon at Children’s Hospital Boston and an assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. She received her master's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a residency in orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and fellowships in pediatric orthopedics and sports medicine at Children's Hospital Boston. For more information, please visit http://www.childrenshospital.org/cfapps/research/
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• George Pins, Ph. D
  Dr. Pins is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at WPI. His research focuses on using biomimetic design strategies and innovation fabrication processes to develop engineered replacements for damaged tissues and organs. He is currently creating three-dimensional scaffolds that regenerate tissue by maintaining native tissue architecture and preserving cellular microenvironments. These enable precise investigation of cell structure and function in wound healing and tissue remodeling and will lead to improved design of engineered analogs for repair of soft tissue injuries. This research has been supported by the Whitaker Foundation, NIH, DoD, and others.
  
  Prior to joining WPI, Professor Pins was a research scientist at Tensegra, Inc., in Norwood, MA where he worked on the development of several medical devices including hydrocephalus shunt filters and artificial disk replacements. Professor Pins received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University, and completed his post-doctoral training in tissue engineering at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Shriners Hospital for Children.  >>close
• Kurt Spindler, MD
  Dr. Kurt Spindler completed medical school and an orthopaedic residency, including one year of basic research training, at the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed a one-year orthopaedic sports medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1991. He is currently Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University Medical School, Director of the Vanderbilt Sports Medicine Center and the Orthopaedic Patient Care Center, and serves as Head Team Physician for Vanderbilt University’s NCAA Division I varsity athletes. His clinical expertise includes the evaluation and treatment of all sports medicine injuries, especially arthroscopic knee and shoulder reconstruction.
  
  His active basic science research focuses on the difference between extra-articular (Medial Collateral Ligament) and intra-articular (ACL) ligament healing and the role of regenerative medicine to modulate repair. His practice and clinical research includes prospective long-term follow-up of ACL reconstructions, he initiated the Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network (MOON) in 2001, and he is the Principal Investigator for this NIH-funded multicenter study. For more information, please visit http://www.vanderbilthealth.com/main/findadoc?name=spindler
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