Eirik Johan Solheim (born August 20, 1960) is a
Norwegian
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professor
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in
orthopaedic surgery
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics ( alternatively spelt orthopaedics), is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal ...
at the
University of Bergen
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in
Norway
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. Eirik Johan Solheim defended his
doctoral thesis
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''Effects of Bioerodible
Polyorthoester on Heterotopic and Orthotopic Bone Induction in Rats'' at the
University of Oslo
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in 1993. He did his specialist training for orthopedic surgery at Hagavik Hospital,
Haukeland Universitetssykehus og Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital.
Dr. Solheim has authored or co-authored three books and about 90 scholarly articles and monographs on various orthopedic topics. Much of his scientific work relates to
osteogenesis
Osteoblasts (from the Greek combining forms for "bone", ὀστέο-, ''osteo-'' and βλαστάνω, ''blastanō'' "germinate") are cells with a single nucleus that synthesize bone. However, in the process of bone formation, osteoblasts function ...
, articular
cartilage
Cartilage is a resilient and smooth type of connective tissue. In tetrapods, it covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints as articular cartilage, and is a structural component of many body parts including the rib cage, the neck an ...
lesions and
articular cartilage repair
Articular cartilage repair treatment is focused on the restoration of the surface of an articular joint's hyaline cartilage. Over the last few decades, surgeons and researchers have made progress in elaborating surgical cartilage repair intervent ...
surgery.
[Ng kee Kwong F, Spector M. Chapter 45. Articular Cartilage. In: Principles of regenerative medicine. Atala A, Lanza R, Nerem R, Thomson JA (Eds.) Elsevier Science & Technology Books 2007. ]
References
External links
Eirik Solheim at University of BergenPublicationlist.org
1960 births
Living people
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