Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, specializing in hip problems at the Royal National Orthopedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) and Cleveland Clinic London. He is director of implant science at the RNOH, where he is part of a multidisciplinary team that reviews 500 patients per year with complex joint replacement problems. He is the co-founder and director of the London Implant Retrieval Center, the world’s largest centre for analysing failed hip replacements. His research has featured in the media and in 2009 he was nicknamed the “hospital hip detective” by the BBC for his work on treating painful hip replacements.
He was appointed in 2012 to the Action Medical Research Chair of Orthopedics at University College London (UCL). Additionally, he is a member of the EFORT (European Federation of National Associations of Orthopedics and Traumatology) committee of Implant and Patient Safety Initiative. He has won awards from the British Hip Society, American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, Radiological Society of North America and University College London. Prof. Hart is a specialist in complex hip problems and continuously thrives to better understand the causes, treatment options and technology used to treat complex hip problems. His implant research has led to changes to international health policy, development of clinical guidance in the UK and abroad, and changes to clinical practice and subsequent cost savings. He has published more than 90 papers with 200 co-authors, and his papers on pain in hip resurfacing and metals in tissue around hip replacements are amongst the most cited in orthopedics. read more

The Vice Head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the Head of the Division of 'Regenerative Orofacial Medicine’ at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. He studied medicine and dentistry in Aachen where he specialized in oral and maxillofacial surgery. In addition to his medical studies, he also studied economics at the University of Hagen.
From 2012-2015 he was visiting Professor at University Bremerhaven, Germany. In 2018 he was awarded an exclusive W3 Heisenberg Professorship at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and is presently the Scientific Director of the curriculum for 'Dental Regeneration Specialists’. He received the 2018 Implant Dentistry Award of the DGZI (German Association of Dental Implantology) and was awarded the prestigious hygiene prize of the Rudolf Schülke Foundation in 2022. His research covers a broad range of topics including periodontitis, cancer, wound healing mechanisms and responses to dental biomaterials, and this is reflected in the numerous publications that he has (co-)authored. Show more

Former Head of the Institute for Health Research and Innovation at Ghent University Hospital, Belgium, where she was also a Hospital Clinical Professor, and is now continuing to share her expertise as a consultant in health research and innovation. She is a rheumatologist and clinical scientist by training and for more than 30 years, has coordinated and conducted international orthopaedic surgery research on bone and tissue regeneration focusing on research and development of implants and the clinical results of joint arthroplasty interventions.
She is the acting Secretary General of the International Society of Technology in Arthroplasty (ISTA) and was president of the 2018 ISTA meeting in London. She is the Chair of the General Board and Board of Directors of Sciensano, the Belgian Institute for Health, and has been a senior clinical lecturer at Imperial College London. She was member of the Working Group on safety of metal implants at the SCENIHR of the European Commission and member of the External Expert Advisory Board (EEAB) of EU Life Long Joints Project. Show more

A research associate at the Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Charité University Medicine, Berlin, and an associated scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, as well as the ‘Decision Engineering and Decision Sciences’ lab at the Michigan Technological University. He is a co-founder of the Max-Planck Institute spin-off Simply Rational which supports organizations to measurably improve decision or advice on topics related to improving decisions or help you to make better decisions.
His work and research focus lies in the field of organizational psychology, developing methods to support decisions in critical situations, as well as risk communication and defensive decision-making. In cooperation with the German Armed Forces, he developed simple decision support tools to differentiate between civilians and suicide bombers at military checkpoints. In his work at Charité, he teaches medical students and physicians to interpret and communicate medical statistics and develops tools to improve post-operative patient allocation.Show more