John Goodfellow

John Goodfellow undertook his initial medical training at Guy’s Hospital in London. He spent his National Service years as a captain in the RAMC, serving with the 14th/20th King’s Hussars and then moved to Oxford to continue his orthopaedic career. He was appointed as a Consultant Surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford in 1965 and practised there for 35 years. For much of that time he was engaged in studies of the knee and knee prostheses. In 1974 he, with John O’Connor, introduced the mobile bearing arthroplasty into orthopaedic practice and since the 1980s he was a proponent of unicompartmental arthroplasty as a better alternative than total knee replacement for many patients with osteoarthritis.

In 1966 John Goodfellow was an ABC (American-British-Canadian) Fellow of the American Orthopaedic Association. He was secretary of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) from 1974 to 1975 and president in 1989. From 1990 to 1995, he was editor of the British volume of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (now the Bone & Joint Journal).

He died in 2011, a great loss to his co-authors and colleagues and to Orthopaedic science and its literature.

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