Professional Profile
Professor Griffin helped to set up Warwick Medical School, and now leads one of the largest orthopaedic research groups in the UK, developing and testing the effectiveness of new techniques, especially in keyhole and minimally invasive surgery. He is one of the international innovators in minimally invasive surgery in the hip, including arthroscopic (keyhole) repair of injuries, treatment of early arthritis, and the use of stem cells to repair cartilage damage. He led the most ambitious ever clinical trial of arthroscopy for hip impingement, a £3M study in 31 hospitals in UK and Australia, which was reported in the Lancet in 2018. He was the Director of Education for the International Hip Preservation Society, developing expertise in this new hip surgery across the world.
Professor Griffin is a Colonel in the Army Reserve. In a varied career he has commanded a battalion of the RIFLES and 202 Field Hospital. He was awarded OBE in the Queens Jubilee Birthday Honours in 2022.