Nigel Shrive
Principal Investigator
Research/ Clinical Expertise:
Structural Biomechanics: Properties and structural behaviour of joints and the soft tissues of joints – normal and healing ligaments and grafts, menisci. Kinematics and kinetics of joints and joint structures. Mechanobiology of cells. Artificial tissues and joints. Expertise in structural/mechanical testing of tissues and joints, modeling (including Finite Element Modeling).
Current Positions:
- Interim Director, McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, University of Calgary
- Killam Memorial Professor, University of Calgary
- Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary
- Joint Appointment, Faculties of Kinesiology and Medicine
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta
Academic History:
- Associate Professor, University of Calgary, 1979-83
- Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, 1976-79
- Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Calgary,1975-76
- D. Phil. in Natural Sciences, Oxford University 1971-74.
- BA, Engineering Science, Oxford University, 1968-71.
Publications:
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D. Phil. Dissertation: Load Bearing in the Knee Joint, University of Oxford, 1974.
