KNEEguru Contributor

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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

Metallosis

Metallosis is a condition where the body is adversely affected by metal ions from metal abrasion of implants.

Meta-analysis

Meta-analysis is the statistical procedure for combining data from multiple studies.

Mesenchyme

Mesenchyme is a loosely organized embryonic tissue which develops into connective and skeletal tissues, including blood and lymph.

Mesenchymal stem cell

A mesenchymal stem cell is a multipotent progenitor cell that can be isolated and expanded from various sources and which can help to repair and rebuild tissues.

Merchant view

The Merchant view is a special X-ray view of the knee that shows clearly the position of the patella in the underlying groove of the trochlea with the muscles at rest. Page updated March 2024 by Dr Sheila Strover (Clinical Editor)