Kim Naylor - Research Associate
As part of her undergraduate degree course, Kim did a one year placement evaluating the clinical use of ultrasound measurements of bone. After completing her degree, she studied for a PhD with the University of Sheffield, Department of Human Metabolism and Clinical Biochemistry. The main focus of her work was biochemical markers of bone turnover. Since obtaining her PhD, Kim has worked as a Research Associate in the department.
Research interests include:
• technical evaluation of bone turnover markers and their clinical application, in particular their use in monitoring the response to treatment.
• the use of finite element analysis models to evaluate bone strength.
Kim is also the Sheffield Musculoskeletal BioBank Research Manager.
Email: k.e.naylor@sheffield.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 114 3052057
Paul Dimitri - Clinical Fellow
• Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology at Sheffield Children's Hospital.
• PhD research focused on the relationship between fat and bone in children, examining the relationships between fat-derived hormones, osteokines and bone turnover.
• Current research interests lie in studying bone in children with single gene obesity syndromes and in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.
Email: Paul.Dimitri@sch.nhs.uk
Shankar Thiagarajah - Clinical Fellow
• Working towards an MD with Mr Wilkinson on the phenotypic characterisation of patients enrolled in the arcOGEN study.
• Research aim is to explore potential phenotype-genotype relationships in the susceptibility and progression of hip and knee osteoarthritis.
• Awarded the British Orthopaedic Association Joint Action Research grant in September 2010.
• Graduated in Medicine from the University of Manchester in 2003.
• Undertook his Basic Surgical Rotation in the North-West of England and Sheffield.
• Obtained a post on the South Yorkshire Trauma & Orthopaedic Higher Surgical Training Rotation.
Email: s.thiagarajah@sheffield.ac.uk
Scott MacInnes - Clinical Fellow
• Studying towards an MD under the supervision of Mr Wilkinson.
• Carrying out a whole genome association study of aseptic loosening following total hip arthroplasty.
• Graduated from Universities of St Andrews and Manchester.
• Undertook his Basic Surgical Rotation in the North-West of England.
• Specialist Registrar on the South Yorkshire Trauma and Orthopaedics rotation.
