Stephen McDonnell
Associate Professor and Consultant Knee Surgeon
Stephen McDonnell is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Consultant Knee Surgeon. His research interests are Knee injuries, identifying and stratifying patients with early knee osteoarthritis, and defining their phenotypic features.
His interests in Knee injuries include prevention, stratification tools, and treatments. He has led the James Lind Alliance for the priorities in Soft tissue knee injuries; he is currently undertaking work developing the CamKIT - Cambridge Knee Injury Toolkit. He leads an NIHR Multi Centre International randomized control trial, ACL STARR, for ACL repair vs. ACL reconstruction.
He works closely with the Department of Radiology using novel imaging techniques. This aims to provide a personalised treatment for the different phenotypes of early knee OA. He was the center coordinator for the EU ADIPOA2 clinical trial investigating the safety and efficacy of autologous adipose-derived stem cells in the treatment of advanced OA of the knee and the PI for EU Starstem project understanding how stem cells and extracellular vesicles lead to healing using photoacoustic imaging techniques. He undertook his previous research MD and orthopaedic surgical training in Oxford, based at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.
He remains a busy clinical knee surgeon treating children's and adult knee injuries. He undertook a specialist knee and hip “Sports and Joints” fellowship in Melbourne with the Melbourne Orthopaedic Group.