
Dr Sheila Strover
Clinical Editor
Degrees: BSc (Hons), MB BCh, MBA
Particular expertise: clinical editing, online publishing, patient advocacy, KNEEguru Founder
Location: Newquay, CON, TR7 1HU, United Kingdom
Dr Sheila Strover is the Founder and previous Clinical Editor of the KNEEguru website.
Her medical studies were completed at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa - BSc(Hons) (1968) and MBBCh (1974). She emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1983 and worked as an anaesthetist (anaesthesiologist) until 1989 when she left practice to work in a managerial position at the Droitwich Knee Clinic, which she co-founded with her knee surgeon ex-husband, <a href="/KNEEnotes/retired-knee-surgeon/dr-mr-angus-strover>Angus Strover.
There she was involved with the establishment of The Knee Foundation (an academic trust) and helped to design the content of their academic courses, as well as designing and bringing to production a 3-dimensional arthroscopic training model of the knee.
A sabbatical in at Warwick University 1973-1974 earned her an MBA (1994), and at this stage she also established the KNEEguru company and website and , with help from the shareholders, she started to build the site content which continues to grow.
Dr Strover resigned from the Clinic in 2002, and has concentrated her energies on creating within the KNEEguru website a successful venue for the collaboration of Patients, Clinical Practitioners and Industry in the knee field.
Contributions
Haemopoietic stem cells
A haemopoietic stem cell is a stem cell derived from blood or bone marrow that is capable of differentiating into the various cells of the blood.
Haematoma
A haematoma is a collection or pooling of blood in an area of the body, creating a clotted lump.
Haemarthrosis
Haemarthrosis is bleeding into a joint (haem' means blood and 'arthrosis' means joint).
Haemangioma
A haemangioma is a kind of blood vessel tumour formed by the overgrowth of blood vessel lining cells.
Habitual dislocation
Habitual dislocation of the patella is when the knee dislocates every time it is flexed (bent) and the patella does not re-locate until the knee is straightened again.