Rob G.H.H. Nelissen is a professor in orthopaedics and chairman department Orthopaedics (Orthopedics, Rehabilitation medicine, Physiotherapy) of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). Apart from this, he is a Medical Delta Professor at Delft University of Technology, department of Biomechanical Engineering (since 2016). Rob graduated from Leiden Medical School and had his doctorate degree from Leiden University. Title doctorate thesis (1995): ‘Fundamental aspects of the clinical evaluation of total joint prosthesis’. After his orthopaedic training (Leiden), he finished a Total Joint Fellowship in the USA (UCLA and Toledo, 1993). He became consultant orthopedic surgeon at Leiden University Medical Center (1994). Co-director of the residency program in 2000. In 2005 he received a chair in Experimental Orthopaedics. The title of his inaugural lecture was Migration = Integration. In 2006 he became chairman of the department of Orthopaedics and director of the residency program. IN 2016 he received a Medical Delta chair, the title of the inaugural lecture at TUDelft was: Smart Implant Surgery. Medical Delta adds! He is the co-founder, chairman (2007-2021) of the Dutch Arthroplasty Register (www.LROI.nl) the third largest implant registry worldwide (2024: > 1.2 million implants, completeness 99%). The LROI is a quality and traceability Register of implants and patient outcome. 2023-present chair of the registration committee of LROI. founder of N.O.R.E. (Network Orthopaedic Registries of Europe) an EFORT standing committee. (vice)president of the Netherlands Orthopaedic Association (2014-2018). Initiator healthcare evaluation programs in Orthopaedics . Chair of the Expert Panel under the MDR (medical device regulation) of Orthopaedics Traumatology, Rehabilitation Reumatology, 2021- Transdisciplinary research themes are: - Prognostic clinical modelling (focus optimising quality of care using real world evidence, regulatory science ) - Optimising Clinical Outcome (focus advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies); e.g. start-up on induction heating by prosthesis infection (IPD.health). Selection grants: - IQJoint study (i.e. Prognostic clinical modelling) - EU Horizon2020, CORE-MD (regulatory science) - NWO/NWA DartBac (prosthesis infection)

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Rob G.H.H. Nelissen is a professor in orthopaedics and chairman department Orthopaedics (Orthopedics, Rehabilitation medicine, Physiotherapy) of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). Apart from this, he is a Medical Delta Professor at Delft University of Technology, department of Biomechanical Engineering (since 2016).

Rob graduated from Leiden Medical School and had his doctorate degree from Leiden University. Title doctorate thesis (1995): ‘Fundamental aspects of the clinical evaluation of total joint prosthesis’. After his orthopaedic training (Leiden), he finished a Total Joint Fellowship in the USA (UCLA and Toledo, 1993).

He became consultant orthopedic surgeon at Leiden University Medical Center (1994). Co-director of the residency program in 2000. In 2005 he received a chair in Experimental Orthopaedics. The title of his inaugural lecture was Migration = Integration.

In 2006 he became chairman of the department of Orthopaedics and director of the residency program. IN 2016 he received a Medical Delta chair, the title of the inaugural lecture at TUDelft was: Smart Implant Surgery. Medical Delta adds!

He is the co-founder, chairman (2007-2021) of the Dutch Arthroplasty Register (www.LROI.nl) the third largest implant registry worldwide (2024: > 1.2 million implants, completeness 99%). The LROI is a quality and traceability Register of implants and patient outcome.

2023-present chair of the registration committee of LROI.

founder of N.O.R.E. (Network Orthopaedic Registries of Europe) an EFORT standing committee.

(vice)president of the Netherlands Orthopaedic Association (2014-2018).

Initiator healthcare evaluation programs in Orthopaedics .

Chair of the Expert Panel under the MDR (medical device regulation) of Orthopaedics Traumatology, Rehabilitation Reumatology, 2021-

Transdisciplinary research themes are:

• Prognostic clinical modelling (focus optimising quality of care using real world evidence, regulatory science )
• Optimising Clinical Outcome (focus advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies);  e.g. start-up on induction heating by prosthesis infection (IPD.health).

Selection grants:

• IQJoint study  (i.e. Prognostic clinical modelling)
• EU Horizon2020, CORE-MD (regulatory science)
• NWO/NWA DartBac (prosthesis infection)

Orthopaedics

Research is focused on improving mobility of patients, with two transdisciplinary themes:

• Prognostic clinical modelling (focus optimising quality of care using real world evidence, regulatory science )

e.g. Orthopedic Oncology; Arthroplasty research

• Optimising Clinical Outcome (focus advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies);  e.g. start-up on induction heating by prosthesis infection (IPD.health).

e.g. Orthopedic Oncology; Arthroplasty research

Academic career

1995: PhD, Leiden University Title thesis: Fundamental aspects of the clinical evaluation of total joint prostheses: the total condylar knee prosthesis Supervisor: Prof. dr. P.M. Rozing Co-supervisor: Dr. R. Brand

2006: inaugural lecture Migratie = Integratie - University Leiden

2009 Adjunct professor Dalkhousie University, Halifax, Canada

2016: Medical Delta Professorship Delft University of Technology, Dept.  Biomechanical Engineering,  Delft, The Netherlands

2022: Honorary Member Royal Netherlands Orthopaedic Association

• 2023: Adjunct Professor Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia

Prizes and honourable appointments

• Biannual Anna-award for Innovative Orthopaedic Research (1996).
• Adjunct professor at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
• Honorary McNab Lecture Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society (2015) .
• Medical Delta Professor at Delft University of Technology, department of Biomechanical Engineering since 2016
• Honorary Lecture Australian&New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society (2017)
• Honorary Duthie day Lecture at NDORMS Orthopaedics (Oxford, 2017)
• Member OECD steering group on comparison of patient outcome with hip and knee implants

Publications