Many of us are familiar with the idea of placebos in drugs trials, but how can we use placebos in surgical trials? Professor Andy Carr will talk about why we do surgical trials, the use of placebo surgery and some of his recent findings from surgical trials using placebos.

Part of IF, the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival. www.if-oxford.com

Professor Andy Carr MA ChM DSc FRCS FMedSci

Andy Carr is the Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford and Head of the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences at the Botnar Research Centre. He founded and is Director of the Botnar Research Centre.

Professor Carr is an inter-disciplinary researcher distinguished for evaluating and developing surgical implants and technologies and for his leadership in surgical and musculoskeletal research. His laboratory group investigates cellular and molecular mechanisms of tendinopathy and is developing novel tissue engineering scaffolds for soft tissue repair.