Professor Xavier Griffin, BA (Hons), PhD (Medicine), FRCS (Tr & Orth),
Chair of Bone and Joint Health
Email: PA, Lauren Exell: boneandjointhealth@qmul.ac.uk
Twitter: @xlgriffin
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Professor Xavier Griffin spearheads academic orthopaedics at Queen Mary and Barts Health, having joined in August 2020 as the inaugural chair of Bone and Joint Health.
Xavier’s vision is for world-class excellence in research and clinical academic training; providing opportunity for the next generation of clinician scientists to realise their aspirations.
Xavier has been awarded over £10m of research funding and over 80 peer reviewed publications.
He is driven by having meaningful impact on patient care; his research is focused on the clinical and cost effectiveness of new and existing treatments to improve bone and joint health and has been cited by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence. He has a passion for developing methodologies which harness the speed, power and efficiency of routinely-collected data but are coupled with the great advantages of randomisation.
Xavier’s clinical expertise is orthopaedic trauma surgery specialising in pelvic and acetabular fractures. He enjoys working as part of the team at the busiest orthopaedic trauma hospital in Europe – The Royal London. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1999 before attending medical school at the University of Oxford, Xavier trained in orthopaedic surgery as a National Institute of Health Research integrated clinical academic fellow. Xavier completed a world-renowned clinical fellowship in Melbourne, Australia specialising in complex fractures of the pelvis and hip.
Xavier serves in HM Reserve Forces, outside of work Xavier can be found mountain biking or rock climbing usually with his young sons in tow!