Professor Neil Rushton
College positions: Emeritus Fellow
University position: Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedics
Subject: Medical Sciences
Group membership: Buildings and Conservation Committee, Cloverleaf, Pepys Restoration
Professor Neil Rushton is an Emeritus Fellow at Magdalene.
Neil Rushton was born in Yorkshire and attended Oglethorpe (Grammar) School, Tadcaster, before moving to The Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London. He qualified in 1970 and embarked on an academic surgical training. He became a Clinical Lecturer at Cambridge, concentrating on orthopaedic surgery, research and teaching. He was director of the Orthopaedic Research Unit until his retirement from clinical practice in 2013. He was the first orthopaedic professor in Cambridge (ad hominem competition).
During his career, he has published 200 peer-reviewed papers, mostly on biocompatibility of orthopaedic materials and failed joint replacements.
He has supervised 11 MD candidates and supervised, or co-supervised, 42 PhD students. He now serves Magdalene on several committees, often to do with buildings.
He is a trustee of Orthopaedic Research UK and Chairman of Research, and also with the development of entrepreneurship in musculo-skeletal enterprise, partly in conjunction with Imperial College, London.