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Adjunct Professor Thayer School of Engineering William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor of Surgery, Dartmouth Medical School |
Abstract: Dr. Mayor and colleague, John Collier, co-direct a world renowned laboaratory studying the technology of artificial joints; the Dartmouth lab has the world's largest collection of retrived impants of artificial hips and knees in the world (>8000).
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of protheses? What is being done to reduce pain in those who undergo replacements?
BIO:
Adjunct Professor
B.E., Electrical Engineering, Yale University 1955
M.D., Yale University 1965
William N. and Bessie Allyn Professor of Surgery, Dartmouth Medical School
Adult reconstructive orthopedic surgery; arthroscopy; biomechanics; biomaterials; design and analysis of orthopedic prostheses; study of joint implant/host interfaces via retrieval analysis
Dartmouth podcast: "Blending medicine and engineering"
Recorded January 19, 2006
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/features/podcasts/2006/mayor.html
Michael B. Mayor (color photo above by Joseph Mehling '69)