BU Research Blog

I am delighted to have joined the Faculty in a part-time capacity in January of this year to help develop a new Impact Case Study related to spinal patient stratification based on biomechanics.   It is a privilege to now be a part of the team, some of whom I have already worked with as a PhD supervisor.

As some of you know, I come from the AECC, the College of Chiropractic, which is an Associate College of the University.  I have already participated in some unique collaborative studies with BU researchers over some years.   My new post will enable me to continue such collaborations, but now as an actual member of BU staff.

My particular research focus has been on a novel technology called ‘Quantitative Fluoroscopy’, which I invented in the 1990s and have worked to develop and use in research ever since.  This technology is becoming the gold standard for detecting strains between the vertebrae of the spine – and its use is expanding in the diagnosis of problematical spinal pain conditions.

With colleagues from BU, we have now begun to link these devices with other technologies and with modelling techniques to more thoroughly represent the integrated function of the spinal bones and tissues in a spectrum of disease conditions.

I look forward to meeting all of you and sharing these ideas and research activities.

Best wishes,

Alan