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Biography
Ben Marson is a member of the Division of Orthopaedics and Trauma at the University of Nottingham. He is a clinical academic, working at Nottingham Children's Hospital as a honorary consultant in trauma and orthopaedics.
Ben undertook his registrar training as part of the East Midlands (North) rotation. He held a NTN(a) as an academic clinical fellow then was awarded a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship to support his time out of programme to undertake his PhD. His senior fellowship was undertaken at Birmingham Children's Hospital specalising in childhood hip, neuromuscular and trauma conditions.
The topic of Ben's PhD thesis was developing a core outcome set for childhood lower limb fractures, and included a systematic review, qualitative interviews, consensus methodology and PROMS validation with a large observational cohort of children with limb fractures.
Ben regularly contributes to the BJJ360 journal's Cochrane Corner and is a statistics editor for the European Spine Journal.
Expertise Summary
- Paediatric orthopaedics
- Childhood limb fractures
- PROMS and core outcomes
- Childhood hip conditions
Teaching Summary
University Teaching:
- Classification of surgical infection and orthopadeic infections: BMedSci Principles of Perioperative Infection
- Childhood Sporting Injuries: Msc Sports and Exercise Medicine
- PICO in systematic review: Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit Systematic review
Clinical Teaching
- ATLS instructor
- FRCS paediatric orthopaedic training
- Paediatric orthopaedic seminars
Research Summary
Co-applicant NIHR HTA funded ODDSOCKS trial