Research Lives: Prof Brian Devitt, consultant orthopaedic surgeon, DCU
What influence did that experience have on you?
Once you have plugged into that way of scientific thinking, you can apply it to your clinical work. I really loved it, it crept up on me. I enjoyed writing, and seeing your papers published is such an achievement, it is like winning a match. I found it became addictive. I wrote about a dozen papers during my fellowship in Colorado, when we were living up in the mountains.
I don’t really see the surgery as work, but when I’m not at work I enjoy cycling and running – my days of contact sports are behind meMy wife wanted to live in Australia for a while so we went to Melbourne. I became director of research at Orthosport Victoria, and I also did my PhD there with Julian Feller, who specialises in soft tissue injury of the knee. I was particularly fascinated by the anterior cruciate ligament or ACL.
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