Dr James Sheehan
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Dr James Sheehan describes his twelve month
encounter with the then Dr John Charnley (later to be Sir John) at Wrightington
Hospital near Wigan, UK as the changing point in his career.
Sir John had a small workshop in his garden where he locked himself away
and fashioned new tools and gadgets for orthopaedic surgery leading to the
ground breaking development of the “Charnley Hip” in 1966.
After of almost a year of intensive training Dr Sheehan realised how
little could be done for other diseased joints and how poor was his understanding
of the necessary mechanical and engineering principals.
At that time two universities in the British Isles had engaged with the
newly emerging science of bio-engineering. A fusion of the disciplines of
biology and engineering.
Mr Sheehan studied biomechanics at the University of Surrey at Guilford
under the direction of Professor Zarek a world expert and enthusiast in
progressing the fusion of these two disciplines.
During this formative year Mr Sheehan embarked on the design of an
artificial knee which was subsequently introduced into clinical practice in
1971
Creativity generally involves crossing the boundaries of domains which
are sometimes connected by adjacent areas of knowledge
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