Andrew J. Carr

Andrew Jonathan Carr is a British orthopaedic surgeon, born in Bradford, England, in 1958, who has been the sixth Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Oxford since 2001. He led the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences until March 2022, when Jonathan Rees succeeded him. His research centres on developing and evaluating surgical technologies, including joint replacement, arthroscopy and tissue engineering, and he has led several UK-wide randomised clinical trials of surgery. With Oxford colleagues he pioneered involving patients in judging the results of orthopaedic operations and devised a series of patient reported outcome measures, the Oxford Scores, which are used worldwide in clinical trials and joint replacement registries. He also studies how effective surgery is for chronic musculoskeletal pain, including the placebo role of surgical procedures and central sensitisation in persistent pain after operations. In 2002 he founded the Botnar Research Centre as an institute of musculoskeletal sciences, and in 2008 he led the amalgamation that formed the Oxford department.