ORU

 

Research for Clinicians

The basic concept of our unit is to promote our clinicians, students and investigators to follow intriguing and unanswered research questions they have.  We also want to make these answers available to our community to be able to improve their health care and change their lives.

 

Our mission

To develop future leaders who will have a positive impact in the Orthopaedic world.

 

 

Our focus

Trauma care and help to prevent trauma

Management of patients with TB, HIV and other infections

Care for elderly patients, women and children

Education in Orthopaedic Surgery

Innovations improving the care for our patients

 

 

Our Setup

Our research facilities are both embedded within the hospital and integrated with Child Health, Infectious Disease, NHLS, and Biomechanics research institutes of UCT. The resulting platform enables experimental musculoskeletal research, translational research, clinical trials and healthcare delivery to be undertaken in close proximity.

The partnership is underpinned by one of the most productive academic research environments in Africa. Clinical medicine research activity has more than doubled over the last five years at the Orthopaedic Department.  Basic science is further supported by internationally leading departmental programmes, such as Microbiology, Pathology, Genetics, and Biomedical Engineering.  This creates an ideal setting for the dynamic inter-thematic research and encouraging a network within which to conduct musculoskeletal research.