John Charnley

John Charnley
Born29 August 1911
Bury, Lancashire, England
Died5 August 1982(1982-08-05) (aged 70)
Manchester, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materVictoria University of Manchester
Known forHip replacement[2][3]
AwardsGairdner Foundation International Award (1973)
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (1974)
Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1974)
Lister Medal (1975)
Albert Medal (1978)
Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsOrthopaedic surgeon

Sir John Charnley, CBE, FRS[1] (29 August 1911 – 5 August 1982) was an English orthopaedic surgeon. He pioneered the hip replacement operation,[4] which is now one of the most common operations both in the UK and elsewhere in the world, and created the "Wrightington centre for hip surgery". He also demonstrated the fundamental importance of bony compression in operations to arthrodese (fuse) joints, in particular the knee, ankle and shoulder.[5][6][7][8]

Charnley also influenced generations of orthopaedic surgeons through his textbook on conservative fracture treatment[9] which was first published in 1950.

  1. ^ a b Nisbet, N. W.; Woodruff, M. (1984). "John Charnley. 29 August 1911 – 5 August 1982". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 30: 117–137. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1984.0004. JSTOR 769822. PMID 11616002. S2CID 42716782.
  2. ^ Jackson, J. (2012). "Father of the modern hip replacement: Professor Sir John Charnley (1911-82)". Journal of Medical Biography. 19 (4): 151–156. doi:10.1258/jmb.2011.011021. PMID 22319187. S2CID 207200585.
  3. ^ Bigliani, L. U.; Cofield, R. H.; Flatow, E. L.; Fukuda, H. A.; Hawkins, R. J.; Matsen Fa, F. A.; Morrison, D. S.; Rockwood Jr, C. A.; Warren, R. F. (2009). "Charles Neer: On the giant of the shoulder". Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. 18 (3): 333–338. doi:10.1016/j.jse.2009.01.033. PMID 19393927.
  4. ^ Wroblewski, B. M. (2002). "Professor Sir John Charnley (1911-1982)". Rheumatology. 41 (7): 824–825. doi:10.1093/rheumatology/41.7.824. PMID 12096235.
  5. ^ Brand, R. A. (2010). "Biographical Sketch: Sir John Charnley MD, 1911–1982". Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 468 (12): 3147–3148. doi:10.1007/s11999-010-1547-6. PMC 2974887. PMID 20852975.
  6. ^ Donald, S. M. (2007). "Sir John Charnley (1911-1982): Inspiration to future generations of orthopaedic surgeons". Scottish Medical Journal. 52 (2): 43–46. doi:10.1258/rsmsmj.52.2.43. PMID 17536642. S2CID 23252729.
  7. ^ Lidwell, O. M. (1993). "Sir John Charnley, surgeon (1911-82): The control of infection after total joint replacement". The Journal of Hospital Infection. 23 (1): 5–15. doi:10.1016/0195-6701(93)90125-j. PMID 8095948.
  8. ^ Eftekhar, N. S. (1983). "In memory of Sir John Charnley. August 29, 1911-August 5, 1982". The Hip: 1–6. PMID 6368477.
  9. ^ The closed treatment of common fractures. John Charnley. Churchill Livingstone. Third edition. Edinburgh and London 1974. ISBN 0-443-00119-7

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