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Alice Sykes, a third year postgraduate research student in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering was awarded a Bronze Medal from the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland – Section of Bioengineering at the annual Bioengineering in Ireland Conference on 27th and 28th January at the Hilton Hotel, Templepatrick.  Alice gained this prestigious award for her paper ‘Aiding Accuracy of Component Placement During Total Hip Arthroplasty’ for which her presentation was judged to be the best overall at the Conference.

Alice is supervised by Professor John Orr in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with co-supervision by Professor David Beverland and Dr Janet Hill from Musgrave Park Hospital.  Janet is a graduate of the School through which David Beverland gained an Honorary Chair in 2011.  Alice’s research project addresses the accuracy of placement of the acetabular component of total hip replacements with respect to position and angular orientation, including the development of instruments to ensure accurate reconstruction of the hip.  The research is in collaboration with Dr Richie Gill, BOTNAR Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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