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Dr. Nigel Shrive confirmed as new Director of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health

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Posted November 16, 2009

Dr. Nigel ShriveI am pleased to announce that Nigel Shrive, D.Phil., P.Eng, C.Eng, has been confirmed as the new Director of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health effective January 1, 2010.

Dr. Shrive has served as the McCaig Institute's Interim Director since July 1, 2008.  He has been involved heavily in both the University of Calgary and the Faculty of Medicine's biomedical engineering initiatives over the past two decades, serving as the graduate coordinator for the Biomedical Engineering Graduate program for its first 10 years.  Dr. Shrive also holds a Killam Memorial Chair and is a professor of civil engineering, an adjunct associate professor of surgery and an adjunct professor of kinesiology at the University of Calgary.

A long-time collaborator and member of the McCaig Institute in the Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Shrive's research is in the area of structural mechanics, ranging from materials science to structural behaviour. In the biomechanical field, this research has provided insight into the mechanical and structural behaviour of ligaments and articular cartilage. More specifically, this research has been focused on defining how the properties of these tissues change with age, and improving the healing of damaged and transplanted tissues to restore as close to normal function as possible. It is through this engineering research--combined with the work of Faculty of Medicine colleagues Dr. Cy Frank and Dr. David Hart--that clinical treatment of damaged ligaments has changed.

Having earned his engineering degree and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom), Dr. Shrive is also a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers and the Masonry Society. This year he was also elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE), and a fellow of Engineers Canada (FEC).

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Shrive to his new role.

Tom Feasby, MD
Dean, Faculty of Medicine